A fine substitute for a safe platform.

[Dr. Zoidberg]

You should see how much more it sags when he walks across.

[MM54]

@dr-zoidberg Eh... bring the left side up one rung so it's level and it'll be fine. Wouldn't do it on a job site, but I'd do it at home. If it was a single board on that span I'd be a little more skeptical.

[e90m3]

@dr-zoidberg If your platform height is 4 ft, but when you walk across and it sags and is less than 4 feet, does OSHA still mandate fall protection?

[CarsOfFortLangley]

@dr-zoidberg kwality home building.

If this guy puts this much effort into keeping himself safe, I'd hate to see his work.

[Dr. Zoidberg]

@carsoffortlangley In his defense, they always pour the driveway last at this place so he's making deadly lemonade out of inconvenient lemons.

[HammerheadFistpunch]

@dr-zoidberg I was going to say that it's probably fine so long as he stays right near the ladder, but he actually uses it as a platform?!

[Dr. Zoidberg]

@hammerheadfistpunch said in A fine substitute for a safe platform.:

@dr-zoidberg I was going to say that it's probably fine so long as he stays right near the ladder, but he actually uses it as a platform?!

Saw him walk across a few times, pretty amusing.

[facw]

@dr-zoidberg

[CarsOfFortLangley]

@facw Well, the search results don't dissapoint

[Sweedsinthestable]

@carsoffortlangley said in A fine substitute for a safe platform.:

@dr-zoidberg kwality home building.

If this guy puts this much effort into keeping himself safe, I'd hate to see his work.

I'd bet there's not as much correlation as you think. How dangerous is this anyway? He's just a few feet off the ground!

Sometimes you gotta work with what you got.

[fintail]

@dr-zoidberg Hmm I see multi-cladded cloned homogeneous bland edgy hip PNW techie mcmodern box architecture, my favorite! And a SOLD sign just for icing on the cake.

[Dr. Zoidberg]

@fintail I'm not gonna disagree, but I'm trying to build a budget for a new car shhhhhh

[fintail]

@dr-zoidberg Is it a condo/townhouse or another 5000 sq ft box on a 3000 sq ft lot?

[Dr. Zoidberg]

@fintail said in A fine substitute for a safe platform.:

@dr-zoidberg Is it a condo/townhouse or another 5000 sq ft box on a 3000 sq ft lot?

The 2nd thing. Well, I think most are 3,500 sq ft homes. One floor plan is 4,300 but only selected once thus far.

[Bloody-the-resident-LandRover-apologist]

@e90m3 said in A fine substitute for a safe platform.:

@dr-zoidberg If your platform height is 4 ft, but when you walk across and it sags and is less than 4 feet, does OSHA still mandate fall protection?

Asking the important questions.

[fintail]

@dr-zoidberg Starting in the low 1.2-1.4s?

[Dr. Zoidberg]

@fintail said in A fine substitute for a safe platform.:

@dr-zoidberg Starting in the low 1.2-1.4s?

Starting at 1.9... Issaquah

[fintail]

@dr-zoidberg Ugh I was thinking maybe gentrified Snohomish or Maple Valley.

[Dr. Zoidberg]

@fintail said in A fine substitute for a safe platform.:

@dr-zoidberg Ugh I was thinking maybe gentrified Snohomish or Maple Valley.

Million dollar homes in Snohomish have sadly been a thing for a while (by Cathcart and Woodinville; Echo Lake for nearly a decade). It's... I don't even have words.

[ranwhenparked]

@carsoffortlangley The worst I've ever witnessed in person was at work. What do you do when a Coca-Cola delivery truck clips an overhead cable? Apparently, the answer was to park an M35 Deuce and a Half underneath it, facing downhill on a steep slope, and precariously balance a ladder in the bed so someone could climb up and duct tape the cable back up. Fortunately, it was before camera phones were common.

[Tripper]

@dr-zoidberg someone should come in from the top ledge and give the man a double bounce!

[Albino Kangaroo]

@dr-zoidberg not ladder related but this reminds me of the time I was working on the building of a whole food retailer being built and OSHA responded to a workplace incident.

I guess in supermarkets they install the floors early. At this jobsite they covered them with melamine boards for protection. There was a large storm and major roof leakage that warped a good number of boards and gave them a nice cupped shape. In any event, a guy tripped and maybe broke his leg. In response they tied up huge swaths of plastic sheeting to capture any leaks and duct taped all the board edges together to avoid tripping.

I guess it was a more interesting story when it happened. Hope that guy healed up.

[Shop-Teacher]

@carsoffortlangley said in A fine substitute for a safe platform.:

@dr-zoidberg kwality home building.

If this guy puts this much effort into keeping himself safe, I'd hate to see his work.

One doesn't necessarily go with the other. My dad was a residential contractor for over 40 years, and did some damn fine work. He's also a fucking nut-job, and the shit he used to do on the most precariously placed ladders still makes my ass pucker just thinking about it.

This is the same guy what would make fun of me on the occasions I decided to wear safety glasses or hearing protection. Nobody on his crew was ever tied off. EVER. He once hired a couple of (minor aged) high school students for the summer, and sent them onto a 3rd floor steep roof, not only not tied off, but one of them was wearing slip on leather clogs.

I quite literally stayed in college, so I never had to do any of that shit again. That's why I'm paying other people many thousands of dollars to paint, reside, and generally fix the outside of my house this summer. It's all work I know how to do, and would have done years ago, if I had a ranch house. But I am NOT getting on those ladders ever a-fucking-gain!

[XJDano]

@e90m3 osha standards are 6’ I thought. 4’ is site specific.

[e90m3]

@xjdano I thought it was 4' across the board, since that's what it's been at the manufacturing facilites I've worked at.