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Title: had a fall
Post by: Temple cleaning services on November 01, 2012, 05:37:13 pm: (http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/1351791178_300.JPG[img]http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/1351791194_297.JPG[img]http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/1351791210_308.JPG)[/img][/img]

slipped off a roof last tuesday, 1 of my few traditional houses, and sods law the last window of the day, been at it ten years and my 1st slip up! its certainly made me think about my job, doing gutters etc, looking at investing in a gutter vac!?! pretty norty wound, lucky i just missed tendons etc
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Post by: TomCrowther on November 01, 2012, 06:21:33 pm: Bad luck mate. Can't see the pic but treat the fall as a warning and realise you are lucky not to have a more serious result.
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Post by: John pearce on November 01, 2012, 08:33:47 pm: Sorry to hear about your fall, i had slipped off a portch roof a few years back (trad)

one minite i was cleaning away, then before i could blink, i was on the concrete below , took all the

guttering with me on way down, i landed backwards with my hands stopping me from braking my back on

a steep step, could have easily ended up in a wheelchair, :(

ive done it again on another house since, but managed to grab the window ledge.. not got that worry

now on wfp. here's a pick of the first fall that i took with phone on the next clean i done on the house. jp

(http://i1275.photobucket.com/albums/y444/jp4313/roofislipedoffandnearlybrokemyback.jpg)
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Post by: brynley on November 01, 2012, 09:08:04 pm: i,m trad, i never go on slopeing roofs, i always use my trad pole
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Post by: brynley on November 01, 2012, 09:15:57 pm: i fall off flat roofs head first on friday 13th
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Post by: richard jagger on November 01, 2012, 11:17:13 pm: I had a fall 3 months ago and still getting head aches at least 4/5 times a week.Hit head on the back of my scull.Ended up in A&E for the day.They would not let me go home till my head was right at the end of the day I just said its fine to go home.
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Post by: Mike #1 on November 02, 2012, 05:30:44 am: If i was trad i would not be going on that porch roof as if they get slightly wet they will be slippy you can tell from pic and those type of tiles break easily .

And if you had the suction type safety feet on your ladder and some ladder mitts fitted i dont see why you could'nt clean of ladder by placing ladder over porch roof and onto window sill as normal . Mike
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Post by: dazmond on November 02, 2012, 07:36:50 am: ive seen that photo you put up at the top of this thread and it made me feel sick!!put me off my dinner last night!!that looks like a really nasty injury!! :o :o :o :o :o

how did you manage to end up with a massive gash like that on your arm?it looks like your hand slipped while using a chainsaw!! :o :o :o :o :o :o
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Post by: lozsing on November 03, 2012, 09:16:30 am: why i dont climb gates anymore

(http://i1114.photobucket.com/albums/k528/Lozsing/IMAG0353.jpg)

(http://i1114.photobucket.com/albums/k528/Lozsing/IMAG0357.jpg)
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Post by: Small but perfectley formed on November 03, 2012, 12:18:12 pm: :o :'( That looks bloody painfull
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Post by: lozsing on November 03, 2012, 03:21:13 pm: its an old wound done in about april this year
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Post by: Johnny B on November 04, 2012, 01:56:57 pm: Ouch.

Let's be careful out there.

John
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Post by: gavinb on November 04, 2012, 02:04:36 pm: Feckin ouch !!!

Do you do stunts for the mr muscle adverts ?