[Easyclean Windows]

Oh this is why i took this this morning...theres window cleaners then there are these

[mark f]

im a ladder user starting out in the world of wfp! i feel perfectly at home on a ladder but that is nuts!!

[Paul Coleman]

You did make that up in an image manipulation program surely?  I can't see how that ladder fails to slip sideways unless it's tied at the top somehow.

[Easyclean Windows]

No no manipulation at all i was doing a block of flats next to it wfp and no it was not tied no safety at bottom no nothing thats why i am an indian cos i wouldnt want to be a cowboy like that

[simon knight]

Maybe the guy standing at the bottom (to the left behind the tree) is there to catch him. It defies laws of physics for him not to slip sideways.

[Easyclean Windows]

Ha that was his girlfriend i think she was observing maybe got a cathers mit in her pocket

It defies laws of physics for him not to slip sideways.

Well you may say that but hes a "real " window cleaner with a squeeggee he was only on the ladder about 4 seconds and straight back down again

[simon knight]

 He was up there 4 seconds too long. If he carries on like that it will be "was a window cleaner".

[brett walker]

By the looks of it hes left a cone out warning people hes going to fall so to walk round him :

Or did the wfp guy that was there before him leave that behind

Brett

[Easyclean Windows]

No the cone is for the residents next door so you cant park in their spaces

Like most window cleaners on a ladder the feet are stuck well into the grass and the top is on the sill but thats great it wont go no where will it !!!!!!!!!!

[Grafters Cleaning Services]

an accident just waiting to happen

[Paul Coleman]

No no manipulation at all i was doing a block of flats next to it wfp and no it was not tied no safety at bottom no nothing thats why i am an indian cos i wouldnt want to be a cowboy like that

Ok.  No problem.  It's so clearly dangerous that I thought you were having a little humour.
As Victor Meldrew would say "I don't beliiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeve it".

[Paul Coleman]

Maybe the guy standing at the bottom (to the left behind the tree) is there to catch him. It defies laws of physics for him not to slip sideways.

I thought that was someone having a p behind a tree.

[pjulk]

I reckon the chaps on the floor there stands in that postition all the time ready to catch the chap on the ladder.

Mad haven't they heard of safety nets chipperfield circus use them.


Paul

[KarlJones]

As daft as it sounds this guy will probably be OK, its the ladder falling on someone else that is the problem.

I see, all the time, guys cleaning windows with one foot on the ladder and one foot on some dodgy porch roof, usually angled.  WTF is that about?  If they start to slip off the roof do they honestly think that having a foot 3ft away from it on a ladder is going to pull that weight back?   If anything the only thing it will do is stop them from being able to get their feet right and it will probably send them into the death spin you can get.   Golden rule is always 3 points contact, but a silver rule should be to have both feet on the same surface.  One foot going down and the other staying where it is isn't what your after.

[poleman]

Chaps as much as we say how bad things are, its not going to change any time soon, as long as I ladder can be used for window cleaning!

Andy   

[AuRavelling79]

I didn't know Squeaky worked by you in Oxfordshire!

[macc]

Chaps as much as we say how bad things are, its not going to change any time soon, as long as I ladder can be used for window cleaning!

Andy   

Wrong, from the spring they are going to start enforcing H&S on ladders.

Macc

[Londoner]

Great picture. A question to the moderator can we start an archive of pictures like that? I'm sure others have some to share.
About five years ago I saw a bloke cleaning the windows on a block of flats very much like those in the picture. The attic flats had little dormer windows set in the roof and he was getting off his long whippy unsecured aliminium ladder, walking up the tiles to do the windows then walking backwards down the roof and trying to hook the ladder with his foot. I wish I'd had a camera. I nearly had a funny turn just watching him, In the end I couldn't stand it anymore and had to drive off.

[jeff1]

He's probablly securely tied around the waist, to one of the near by satalite dishes, failing that he has a large scrim that can be utilized as a parachute, if that failed to open, I see the car is parked near-by, to rush the said wc to the nearest hospital or cemetry.  so I don't know what all the fuss is about
How do we know he's not a stuntman, on set for new James Bond movie, you only fall once mr Bond  :

[Sir Squeaky]

I expect most of us have done that sort of thing at some point.

Get on with your boring lives and stop taking any notice of what others do. :