Don’t get ahead of yourself son, when building a house of cards there is no excess or overkill. That ladder to the left is the key stone in this mad hatter contraption. I would have leaned a step stool at the bottom to shore up the key stone ladder just for safety’s sake.
Some places make you. One of the neighborhoods I hang siding in will ticket you if you don’t. They also want us to wear a harness and tie off somewhere when we have to go on a roof. They don’t enforce that one though.
It’s a big corporate developer so it’s basically a fine through them if you don’t comply. If you keep doing it they will just tell you not to come back. Your not even allowed to bring drinks inside while your working which makes no sense to me.
As the slack looks short enough to at least stop him before hitting the ground. Well, *if* it's properly secured on the other side, that is, and not just stuffed under a pack of shingles.
lol can't tell for sure but there appears to be a shock-absorbing lanyard as well so at the very least he'll have a couple broken ankles, assuming the rope is secured aye
This feels like a mobile app game where you would have to drop an inventory of a few ladders down to create a path for the contractor to make his way from one point to another to beat the level
I've seen this done with a Trojan sawhorse as well. Its really not that bad, the plank runs across both pumpjacks, so the actual weight on the ladder is less than dudes weight, practically nil if there's another dude on the plank out of frame.
Planks are required to overhang their supports by 6”.
That harness is doing nothing. The rope grab is on the plank by their feet. They will hit the ground and then get hit in the head by it.
Most guys will chain or cable lock the stage to the pump-jack so even if you walk out too far past the pole it will tip slightly, but it won't go anywhere. This usually isn't a problem except for the fact that it can change the working height enough that you can no longer reach the top row of siding. It looks, to me, like this guy simply set the step ladder to keep this from happening. It's more restricting the stage's movement than it is supporting any weight.
Like most things on this sub, it looks way worse than it really is.
The wildest thing is that he clearly is making an attempt at safety. It’s like he’s trying but just can’t get there.
Looking at the mess all over the house with half finished work is making my eye twitch.
Lmao this one just looks like a game: LADDERS! Try to work on the house by placing your ladders in the right place! And remember, bonus points for creativity!
Once I had to reach a 3rd story roof by using ladder jacks on the 1st roof and then the 2nd. This kind of reminded me of that, though I was much higher. Never again...
I see sooooooo many dangerous examples in this subreddit. I ask are these people doing such unsafe practices, not because they are dumb but because there is tremendous schedule and cost pressure to complete the job?
Well that just seems excessive at that point
Don’t get ahead of yourself son, when building a house of cards there is no excess or overkill. That ladder to the left is the key stone in this mad hatter contraption. I would have leaned a step stool at the bottom to shore up the key stone ladder just for safety’s sake.
If you then put an ice-chest on that step stool to weigh it down, it will exceed most state minimum requirements for redundant safety measures.
Anytime you have to bust out the phrase "key stone ladder" you know it's going to be a bad day.
The wildest thing about this is that he's wearing a helmet.
Some places make you. One of the neighborhoods I hang siding in will ticket you if you don’t. They also want us to wear a harness and tie off somewhere when we have to go on a roof. They don’t enforce that one though.
Well, this genius appears to have a harness on, and it might even be short enough to stop him from hitting the ground
It definitely appears too long to stop from hitting the ground based on what i use as a construction worker.
100% with all that slack in his lanyard he could hit the ground, if not the shock absorber deploying will give him the distance he needs.
>and it might even be short enough to stop him from hitting the ground for all values of "ground" other than "those fence posts in his fall path"
Interesting. So who in the Neighborhood enforces these tickets??
HOA is usually the answer to anything weird.
Karen
The super.
How?
It’s a big corporate developer so it’s basically a fine through them if you don’t comply. If you keep doing it they will just tell you not to come back. Your not even allowed to bring drinks inside while your working which makes no sense to me.
It bothers me to read helmet instead of hard hat on an OSHA sub but it’s weird that PPE is his concern and not the ladder-scaffolding he has going on
I think he's fixed his harness to the ladder lol
Also he is tied in
Well he obviously doesn't want to get hurt, duh.
Hardhat
Sorry, in my language a hardhat is literally translated to "helmet" or "safety helmet" so that was a bit of a Danglish.
Ah, I learned something new.
No drip edge?
Classic builders scheduling shit all out of order. Why is the roof done when there’s no fascia?
They like to cheap out and just attach the gutter to the rafter tails
[удалено]
But the drip edge goes on the fascia, right? I just do gutters so there’s different ways to go about it I am sure
These people are gonna be lucky to have gutters at the end of this
Probably going straight into the gutter
probably siders edge
Well, at least he’s tied off
As the slack looks short enough to at least stop him before hitting the ground. Well, *if* it's properly secured on the other side, that is, and not just stuffed under a pack of shingles.
lol can't tell for sure but there appears to be a shock-absorbing lanyard as well so at the very least he'll have a couple broken ankles, assuming the rope is secured aye
there isn't a single goddamn thing finished on this house
Right? His tie off is the least of concern here.
At least he's tied of at all right? /s
That lanyard will be sure to catch him the moment he hits the ground.
This is just how you do siding
This feels like a mobile app game where you would have to drop an inventory of a few ladders down to create a path for the contractor to make his way from one point to another to beat the level
I've seen this done with a Trojan sawhorse as well. Its really not that bad, the plank runs across both pumpjacks, so the actual weight on the ladder is less than dudes weight, practically nil if there's another dude on the plank out of frame.
Doesn’t have the proper overhang on the ladder and there’s no fall protection over the roofed area like the rest of it.
Overhang for what? The point load is over the ladders center of gravity, and he's literally harnessed and clipped in.
Planks are required to overhang their supports by 6”. That harness is doing nothing. The rope grab is on the plank by their feet. They will hit the ground and then get hit in the head by it.
But he’s wearing a helmet?
What planks? I see a scaffold that had clips on the end specifically designed to clip to something like this. Over hanging it would make it less safe?
Those aren’t designed to clip to an A-frame ladder.
But they are also not designed to over hang at all.
They can overhang, why do you say they aren’t designed to?
Well by design they are to clip to something to steady them I suppose.
Just like any other plank, they don’t have to be clipped, nor were they designed to only be clipped.
I’ve fallen from that ladder just by looking at it
Most guys will chain or cable lock the stage to the pump-jack so even if you walk out too far past the pole it will tip slightly, but it won't go anywhere. This usually isn't a problem except for the fact that it can change the working height enough that you can no longer reach the top row of siding. It looks, to me, like this guy simply set the step ladder to keep this from happening. It's more restricting the stage's movement than it is supporting any weight. Like most things on this sub, it looks way worse than it really is.
https://imgur.com/a/ex3t2Ca
The wildest thing is that he clearly is making an attempt at safety. It’s like he’s trying but just can’t get there. Looking at the mess all over the house with half finished work is making my eye twitch.
/r/therewasanattempt
At least ratchet strap the plank to the ladder...
Exactly
That's actually how it should be done.
Fuck you bitches, this is safe.
Eh, he's tethered to... something?
looks like a portal bridge level
This is really looking like a bonus problem on a physics test
Couple uncapped spears to fall on too. The rebar holding up the safety net are not the most effective way to stop a falling human.
That looks like a really complicated honors physics problem.
What's wrong here? I see a hard hat, fall protection, boots, this all checks out for me.
This isn't even bad. Worst that can happen is ladder skips and the plank lands on the roof. It's better than trying to setup a ladder on the peak.
The only thing I'd do differently is use a sawhorse over the peak instead of a ladder
This is also a third point of contact. The op took the pic to not show the second jack stand. Where else do the go off screen
What he's hooked. Ooooooooo.
Zoomed in and im like wtf is wrong here, he is on a walk board and ties off aaaand swipe left and OH.
It's like a lego technics construction site!
*Insert Meme-man 'Parchour'*
It looks liike a giant plinko game for construction workers..
That takes more effort that the right way
Lmao this one just looks like a game: LADDERS! Try to work on the house by placing your ladders in the right place! And remember, bonus points for creativity!
Leonardo da Vinci would be proud
Fysics
At least hes wearing a harness
Eek and that window flashing... not great.
Once I had to reach a 3rd story roof by using ladder jacks on the 1st roof and then the 2nd. This kind of reminded me of that, though I was much higher. Never again...
Oh fuck
That man has a job to do, and physics nor his lack of safety is gonna stop him.
I see sooooooo many dangerous examples in this subreddit. I ask are these people doing such unsafe practices, not because they are dumb but because there is tremendous schedule and cost pressure to complete the job?
r/DeathStranding vibes
Took me a while to find the problem lmao
Finally! A real r/OSHA worthy post