Siding Dwight Schirmer’s (of the infamous pokergroup) house. Dwight is utterly fearless of heights. I usually work with people far more timid than I of walking on narrow planks at back breaking heights, but not Dwight. Set it up, and out he goes.
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Stucco is falling off the chimneys at Applewood, and instead of re-stuccoing, theyÃve been framing them in with plywood and adding a copper cap to keep the rain at bay. This is my second, and at about forty feet off the ground, hopefully my last. My staging is set on the deck Mark Queijo and I worked on.
rakkity
As a sometime rock climber who’s seen lots of air beneath his feet, my hands sweat at the thought of standing on a narrow ledge or rikkety board over a potentially leg-breaking drop. When I go above 30 feet for house painting or tree pruning, I set up a self-belay system. I’ve taken enough belayed falls on rock faces to trust life and limb to ropes, but never to balance and luck.
Michael
I remember when fall arrest systems (http://www.spilldepot.com/images/Fall-arrest-sm.jpg )were first mandated, and how stiff the complaints. Number crunchers know how many lives they’ve saved, and I bet it’s quite a few.