[S_RICHARDSON]

Does anyone ever stand on the top rung

[AuRavelling79]

  Who's that trip-trapping over my bridge?

[Moderator David@stives]

No  It is a big no-no

You should always keep 3 points of contact on the ladder at all times and the last 3 rungs should never be used for standing on

Dave

[P®oPole™]

Does anyone ever stand on the top rung

  NEVER STAND ON THE LAST RUNG!!!

If you cant reach mate dont do it, its just not worth it. I used to pull some silly moves when I first started.

You can wrap your scrim around one side of your blade, this will give you abit of extra reach.

ProPole

[macc]

Does anyone ever stand on the top rung

NOOOOOOOOOOOO.  .

If you cant reach on the ladders dont do it. Its doing things like that gives idiots the right to call for a ban on ladder use.

Macc

[Sir Squeaky]

Does anyone ever stand on the top rung

Yes, then step onto one of the ends on tip-toe.


 

[Pj]

Does anyone ever stand on the top rung

It's ok as long as the fully extended height of the ladder doesn't exceed 10 inches.  Even then, at my age I wouldn't do it! :

[Ian_Giles]

Squeaks may be joking about that....but I've done that and worse in my time

I'll be honest, if I was still on ladders there are windows where I would either be standing on the top rung to clean the window or climbing off the ladder to stand in the window sill to clean the window.
Squeaks will know what I mean actually.

The middle floor of Cas-Gwent Rog.

As Squeaks will tell you, on this account I had one lad working for me who was doing the place, he climbed big three tier for the 2nd floor, then because there was a lot of bend in the ladder, half way down he would climb off the ladder by stepping across to the wide sill of the first floor window
On one occasion, on a windy day (nowadays I'd never let anyone up a ladder on a windy day) he had stepped of fthe ladder, only for a gust of wind to take the ladder and blow it over (fully extended to its 33' height) acoss the middle of the road...it landed between two cars rather than on one of them .....fortunately!

As David said...3 points of contact at all times!!
Though sadly many of us will ignore that stipulation.


Ian

[Sir Squeaky]

As Squeaks will tell you, on this account I had one lad working for me who was doing the place, he climbed big three tier for the 2nd floor, then because there was a lot of bend in the ladder, half way down he would climb off the ladder by stepping across to the wide sill of the first floor window
On one occasion, on a windy day (nowadays I'd never let anyone up a ladder on a windy day) he had stepped of fthe ladder, only for a gust of wind to take the ladder and blow it over (fully extended to its 33' height) acoss the middle of the road...it landed between two cars rather than on one of them .....fortunately!

Funny part was him knocking on the window and asking to be let in.
He had to walk across a few desks too....

[JM123]

I had triple extension 4m ladders, fully extended 10m, top rested on a ledge, I climb up, get onto the ledge (18inch wide) and walk 20ft along to far window which is higher off the ground due to split level of the house, scary moments indeed. 

She paid an extra £3 for that window - madness.

I'm completely irresponsible, or at least was.

[Simon Carter]

I invested in water fed pole kit when I realised there was no danger money in our job. By the sound of some of the antics mentioned, there should be !!

[JohnL]

As Dave said  NEVER use the last 3 rungs of a ladder

  .  .  .  thats the ones at the top   

JohnL

[brett walker]

Done many dangerous things on a ladder in my time, stood on second to top rung many a time never again

regards

Brett

[Pj]

Been there, done that, got the T shirt!

And that, Your Honour, is why I use wfp.

[chris@c.m.s]

If you have the right size point ladder would there ever be any need to get that high? I dont have a double point yet but will be getting one soon.