Ladder Safety - How To Use An Extension Ladder Safely

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In this video Damon Bennet teaches us how to use a ladder safely.

Tips:
1. It's always a 2 person job. Never use a ladder alone.
2. Pull the rope to extend ladder and tie it where you need it.
3. There should be 4 points of contact. 2 feet on the ground fully flat and 2 edges of ladder firmly touching the wall.
4. Where it is off the wall is important. Feet on bottom of ladder. Then put your rms out and they should grab ladder without arms bending. Arms should be fully extended.
5. Make sure clips for extension are clipped in properly. Properly fastened.
6. Always have one person at bottom of the ladder holding it for you.
7. Have both hands on either side of the ladder on the way up and down.

SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR EXPERT DAMON BENNETT:
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[efiabrams]

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

[ralphstone]

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-

[austinr]

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

[allenrj]

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!

[CherylsWorld.]

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.

[dougsteele]

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

[tigertruckerman]

hands are supposed to be on rungs be mistake on side

[jimhabsfan]

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.

[elchicano]

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??....

[WORLD-OF-MERLIN]

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

[miked]

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

[blantz]

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.

[pilzgss]

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

[cglees]

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

[drseuss]

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

[janesmith]

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.

[CherylsWorld.]

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).

[alhakisan]

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

[jasonmeador]

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

[FrankBoston]

That second person is a huge deal, too!