On Mon, 09 Jul 2018 20:33:58 -0400, John H. Â*

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"I like climbing.Â*
I climbed a little over 3 stories of scaffolding today to get an HVACÂ*
guy to do his job. The first floor is actually about 17feet, theÂ*
rappel the Deuce did on his retracto leash. They were supposed to putÂ*
the vent covers on the stubs out before the stucco guys got there. TheÂ*
lead guy was whining that it was too high, too hard, no fall gear,Â*
yada yada.Â*
I just started climbing up there and when I passed the second floorÂ*
his helper decided if an old geezer like me could get up there, heÂ*
could. We met at the top and the lead guy handed us the vents out theÂ*
window after the minute or to it took him to get up the steps.Â*
The view was really worth the climb.Â*
After that I just went back in through the 3d floor window and reallyÂ*
made them look foolish. It did not occur to them that you really didÂ*
not have to climb at all."



Unless that scaffolding was rock solid (no movement), I wouldn't be comfortable on it. Maybe one of those basket on the end of a boom Genie rigs would be better.