Re:Table-Saw Kickback on Camera (2012) [video]
by TheOtherDave on Thursday January 31, 2019 @11:47AM
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Unless the ladder is anchored to something, it’d probably just fall over backwards if you put any weight on such a rail. They get unbalanced if the load isn’t kept forward.
Re:Table-Saw Kickback on Camera (2012) [video]
by jaclaz on Thursday January 31, 2019 @11:53AM
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Ladders with tubular hand rails exist alright here (Italy/Europe).
Examples:
http://www.ippis.it/negozio/scale-in-alluminio/scala-in-allu...
https://www.ediliamo.com/scala-professionale-con-parapetto-f...
Re:Table-Saw Kickback on Camera (2012) [video]
by Gravityloss on Thursday January 31, 2019 @12:10PM
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At least over here, in maintenance ladders over a few stories high there's a central C shaped track where you attach a metal car about the size of a fist. Then you attach your harness to the car. The car can't come out of the rail. It also has a mechanism that it only moves if you pull it outwards.
Makes climbing really easy and safe. Technically you don't even need to use your hands for anything .
But this seems stupid. Anyone with hands will realize that sliding your gripped palm around and up a round tube in a neutral position (that is, with your palms facing each other, not facing down) feels more secure then hand-over-hand on the steps, which don't give good grip anyway because the lip of the step faces down, not up.