[focuscoleraine]

Yesterday finished my round all wfp except for one window that i had to use ladders for. We loaded gear in the van and left the custie's house to go home.  Half way down the road we heard a crash and the ladders were lying in the middle of the road.  Luckily not a car in sight.  What a relief!!!  The sooner I get rid of ladders altogether the better.  Has this happened to anyone else?


Regards

Des

[Newannaive]

yea happened once, forgot to put the clips on..eeeek 

[George P]

yes once wh4en guys thought each other had tied on and was coming out across busy rd, luckily it wasa lorry driver who saw it happening and slowed down and stopped traffic for us to go back to pick them up

[martinsadie]

Yesterday finished my round all wfp except for one window that i had to use ladders for. We loaded gear in the van and left the custie's house to go home.  Half way down the road we heard a crash and the ladders were lying in the middle of the road.  Luckily not a car in sight.  What a relief!!!  The sooner I get rid of ladders altogether the better.  Has this happened to anyone else?


Regards

Des

good job your wfp ,your not safe to use ladders

[david watts]

tip for you fix ladders on top with hooks; take off hooks leave on drivers seat.
allways fix them on while your putting them on dont do other jobs then aim to go back to them

[paul saunders]

Sounds like a classic case of operator error. 

[woody1]

i had never done that in 6 odd years but in the last 3 months twice lucky no one been about when its happened  scares the poo out of you 

[mark mann]

lamo

sorry mate just visualising your faces when you heard the crash of the ladders
and thought what the xxxx

glad it was ok and didnt turn into a problem and would scare the poop out of me if it happened.

[Richard Neal]

Never happened to me but recently i keep leaving my small points behind, must be me age 

[Nathanael Jones]

I used to work with my father in law & one day he asked me to move his van (The fool had parked across someone's driveway & they wanted to get out). So I grabbed the keys, started the van & went down the road,.. & at the first corner there was a huge crash. He'd taken 1 set of ladders down, but undone the clamps on all of them for some reason!!
Luckily no damage was caused,.. 1 old lady who saw it gave me a telling off for not being more careful though!

[Klean07]

Happened to me twice in 20 years. First time they slid onto bonnet of my van and left two tram lines on there. The second time which about 3 years ago. I drove for about 3 miles including round a busy ring road without anything holding them down. I realised when I got to my next job how lucky I was.
I use bungees by the way. I have the metal hookes too but they take too long to put on and get off so I only put them on if I'm going on the motorway.

[jmb]

when i first started for my working for my dad 25 years ago he put me and my twin brother with his 2 other workers to
learn the game, within the first couple of months we were coming down the motorway from the bath junction towards
bristol and the bloke always hung the point over the side of the old roofracks which were D shaped, anyways the point
flew off into the slow lane, he pulled up into the hard shoulder and had me run back and get it, which does sound incredidbly
stupid but when your 16 you dont think about it luckily they wasnt another car in the slow lane for a bit think they all moved
over to avoid the ladder

Another mate of ours forgot to tie his point on and drove around bristol city center until he came to a pedstrian crossing
when the lights went red, he braked and the point flew off the roof straight down the road, luckily the people crossing
had only just started to cross otherwise he would have killed someone 

[LWC]

Mine slid down the side of the van the once, leaving a nice mark an i couldnt open the door, i had tied them on but not well enough, had to shimmy over to get out of passengar side lol.

Went out in my uncles van, we put the ladder on the roof, drove about 10 miles on a bypass aswell, got near next house an i said "did you tie ladder on?" he goes, no, we stopped and they were still on there lol, how lucky was that! Good them ladder racks on old transits.