Ladder Safety - How To Use An Extension Ladder Safely 

1:53 best part of the whole video. How is this not a meme? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Enjoyed the video. I'm a 70yo woman trying to decide if I can clean my own gutters. Your lesson was informative, and also saved me a broken hip-thanks! I'll call someone-

good start video. Need another video on getting back on the ladder from the roof, how far to extend the top past the roof and so on

I bought a ladder to clean my own gutters or if I ever need it. I don't know ladder terminology but it has like 3 layers (separate ladder parts). I'm not sure which should get extended first, how far or how those clamps are supposed to work on the rungs.

Maybe you could show how to raise the ladder past the gutter on the roof.Thank you for the intro on ladder safety.

No mention of tie off to the gutter at the top, no mention of level base, no mention of wearing a safety helmet when going above head height. If you slip, you may survive a broken arm or leg, but a fractured skull - well good luck with that!

Base of ladder should be 1/4 distance of whatever the height is.

Good video mixed with some humor. A general rule of thumb is : for every 4 feet of vertical, the feet of the ladder should be 1 foot out from the base.

hands are supposed to be on rungs be mistake on side

Tie off your ladder Most deaths or paralysis occur getting 6' step ladders as the break point is between the second and third vertebrae where the average neck line contacts the ground If you're going to fall, jump of vertically they say, then you land in your feet, hit your knees then with elbows protecting your head you roll into a ball then roll and turn impact force into kinetic rolling energy, but better off being tied off on a life line, it simple anchor bracket and rope, takes 5 minutes, Say you have a roof tie down anchor 25' from where you're working at a roof edge, it's 65' from the ground, 70' from the bottom of the elevator shaft, hook your rope around a roof truss right where you're working, so maybe an 8' straight fall would occur if you fell off a wall, however, if you didn't wrap your rope around a close framing member you might be in for a 20 foot fall at the point of drop in only to swing 15' back into a block wall and then your 6' lanyard, so, a 170 lb guy falls, he's at the end of his rope perspective to his fall location, but the anchor point is 25 feet back, he falls for 20 feet in a swing and smashes full velocity 15 feet away into a cmu wall, nominally, but the lanyard or rope with a built in lanyard system (which should then be only connected to your harness D ring and not your 6 foot lanyard) unleashes, so then a 20' swing drop becomes 26 feet of properly connected, or, if improperly connected becomes 6' on the rope with built in fall arrest plus the 20' of rope plus the additional 6' lanyard you're talking s 15' lateral positional fall at the drop point away from Anchorage, and a 32' drop to take you smashing into a concrete stair it elevator shaft, this needs to be reintegrated in OSHA cottages around the globe. It's sometimes impractical to move an anchor every ten minutes, but wrapping your rope around a close framing member plumb up from where you're working might be in order

So much of this is awkward and odd. 😂 so funny.

How to use an extension ladder....still waiting, is there a part 2? This video just shows how to use a ladder, not how to use the rope to extend it

Maybe show how you got the ladder from a truck or garage and in position on the wall/ground?

He talks about 4 points of contact of the ladder touching, but if you look at the top left point of the ladder at 1:17, it isn't touching the house.

What if u have trex ar s

That second person is a huge deal, too!

I went all the way to the gutter and didn't know someone was supposed to be holding the bottom. Biggest mistake was looking down, I froze in fear and it took a while to get down. I need far more instruction (but I liked the funny guy).

But how do you move it once it's up?

Again no mention on how to get ON the roof and OFF the roof safely. By the way I was always to taught to place my hands on the rungs of the ladder and not the sides. Why don't the ladder experts get on and off the roof??....

I disagree with the suggestion to have someone holding the ladder. I suggest securing the bottom against slip out ie secure a board against the bottom. Or, on soil, dig 2 inch deep holes for the feet. I my long career I've never heard of a ladder falling backwards from the top which, seems to be everyone's greatest fear, which is why they often place the bottom way too far out from whatever the top is leaning against. In my opinion in this video the bottom is out too far. I have heard way too many ladders slipping out at the bottom. And the injuries that accompany that.

sick

80 firefighters watched this.

Video was fine but didn’t help me with the questions I had. How to extend the ladder once it’s upright without scratching the siding

My work expects me to move these around a huge condo complex and set them up myself

Who’s the guy on the green outfit? Mr bean? Lol

I knew a guy that had to have his leg amputated after an extension ladder collapsed on him.

Bearny-Sesamee Street :)

can you extend the ladder to the max rung?

Eh thats the guy from Holmes show!

The metal thing you can put at the top - a stand off could be shown too as I want to use that safely as well and the point that balancing a ladder on a plastic gutter is not a great idea as it slips and slides is worth making. But thanks for this. I will use the arm thing at the bottom too. Just need to find someone who will hold it for me now.... not at all easy.

1/4 ratio 1 foot out for every 4 feet up. Not correcting you, just making it easier. Also, walk on the arch of your foot on the rung, not the ball of the foot. Hands on the rung, not the outside.

I thought you’d need to grab the inside of the ladder rather as u go up/down instead of the sides, if you do slip you have your hands and a comfortable curved grip to hang from.

I never knew the straight arms thing! awesome thanks silly little thing like that but good to know

He use to be on tv with Mike Holmes.

How come no one ever talks about which way to set the ladder up against the house. I see more guys with ladders set up with proper angles and points of contact yet the ladder is turned the wrong way, meaning the upper extension side is turned 180 out?

Does the ladder angle rule of thumb still apply if you’re a T-Rex? 🦖

What a thrill..

good tips there but two person job...yeh right! i climb solo and at 90 degrees

Is that Jared from subway 🤔

ricky moranis love child

If you want, you can learn how to do it with Stodoys plans woodworking plans.

The ladder in Video is Damaged and should not have been used. ( Always check equipment before or use’s)

Q: What exactly does the second person do?

One of the biggest??? Lmao i have a 60 ft 3 piece extension ladder

Dislike: Hands are supposed to be on rungs! If you fall, you can't hold on to sides! Bad teacher!

I did it myself thanks to Stodoys.

Just a tad too much humor for such a serious subject

ladders are dodgy as hell

Having someone's shoes at the bottom of a ladder doesn't make it safer

you did not show how to unlock the latch. my goodness. that's what I want to know. your busy talking nonsense

Too much "witty" banter that distracts from the important content.

These guys are cringey together.

YOU SHOULD HOLD THE SPORTS NOT THE TREE.