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Keyser Soze Wrote in message:
justan wrote: True North Wrote in message: On Monday, 18 September 2017 17:47:28 UTC-3, justan wrote: True North Wrote in message: On Monday, 18 September 2017 16:07:14 UTC-3, justan wrote: Keyser Soze Wrote in message: On 9/18/17 2:29 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: John H Wrote in message: To get on the house roof I don't need a ladder. Can climb out a bedroom window and then have access to entire roof with a step stool. I don't do house roofs either. If I get four feet from the edge, severe vertigo sets in. :-) I remember the time I spent in Thunder Bay, Ontario, one week. Really, really, really cold. And I saw crews shoveling snow off the roofs of houses. Was told the home insurance companies paid for those crews because it was a lot cheaper than replacing roofs that collapsed from the 4' or more of snow load on them. There was four to five feet of snow on the ground, too, so I guess if the guys on the roofs fell off, they're be more likely to suffocate in a snow bank than get seriously injured in a fall. :) Amazingly, one night I was there when it snowed at least a foot, and the next morning, early, the union rep from the local arrived on time to pick me up. The streets had already been cleared. The snowbanks along the curbs were huge. I drove a rental to Thunder Bay once. Did what I had to do, and got out. Kanada in the winter is for the birds. -- x ----Android NewsGroup Reader---- http://usenet.sinaapp.com/ As I've said many times, Justine...it's no country for girliemen! Yet Donella won't leave. I have a few friends whose Scottish ancesters come to America via Nova Skosha. Would you call them girly men? -- x ----Android NewsGroup Reader---- http://usenet.sinaapp.com/ No silly, I'm calling y'all a girlieman. They were smart not to stay. You, not so much. What do you expect from a weakling who needs a power assist tongue wheel to push his little 14' aluminum boat around his little 4000 sf house lot. In summation, who cares what a bowlegged, girlish, dumb, beer swilling weakling from crime city Kanada has to say. PS: Good luck with your house painting. We'll be watching, via maps, how the job progresses over the next several years. More insults from pussyboy flajim, the coward. -- Posted with my iPad Pro Insulting maybe. True, of course. Far different from your standard fare of lying insults. Ask Donnieella how many years it took him to complete the last paint job on his house. Which, if memory serves, was completed about 5 years ago. -- x ----Android NewsGroup Reader---- http://usenet.sinaapp.com/ |
Yo Bill...to take the heat off
True North wrote:
On Tuesday, 19 September 2017 10:59:43 UTC-3, justan wrote: True North Wrote in message: On Monday, 18 September 2017 17:47:28 UTC-3, justan wrote: True North Wrote in message: On Monday, 18 September 2017 16:07:14 UTC-3, justan wrote: Keyser Soze Wrote in message: On 9/18/17 2:29 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: John H Wrote in message: To get on the house roof I don't need a ladder. Can climb out a bedroom window and then have access to entire roof with a step stool. I don't do house roofs either. If I get four feet from the edge, severe vertigo sets in. :-) I remember the time I spent in Thunder Bay, Ontario, one week. Really, really, really cold. And I saw crews shoveling snow off the roofs of houses. Was told the home insurance companies paid for those crews because it was a lot cheaper than replacing roofs that collapsed from the 4' or more of snow load on them. There was four to five feet of snow on the ground, too, so I guess if the guys on the roofs fell off, they're be more likely to suffocate in a snow bank than get seriously injured in a fall. :) Amazingly, one night I was there when it snowed at least a foot, and the next morning, early, the union rep from the local arrived on time to pick me up. The streets had already been cleared. The snowbanks along the curbs were huge. I drove a rental to Thunder Bay once. Did what I had to do, and got out. Kanada in the winter is for the birds. -- x ----Android NewsGroup Reader---- http://usenet.sinaapp.com/ As I've said many times, Justine...it's no country for girliemen! Yet Donella won't leave. I have a few friends whose Scottish ancesters come to America via Nova Skosha. Would you call them girly men? -- x ----Android NewsGroup Reader---- http://usenet.sinaapp.com/ No silly, I'm calling y'all a girlieman. They were smart not to stay. You, not so much. What do you expect from a weakling who needs a power assist tongue wheel to push his little 14' aluminum boat around his little 4000 sf house lot. In summation, who cares what a bowlegged, girlish, dumb, beer swilling weakling from crime city Kanada has to say. PS: Good luck with your house painting. We'll be watching, via maps, how the job progresses over the next several years. -- x ----Android NewsGroup Reader---- http://usenet.sinaapp.com/ You are an amusing little girl, Justine. The Yukon 15 was 2 boats ago. I've had the Legend 16 Xcalibur and now the Bayliner BR 17 since then. I've got the staging set up on the west side of my house now as we speak and will be getting back at it as soon as things dry up on Thursday. What are you going to buy next to park in your driveway all year? |
Yo Bill...to take the heat off
On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 03:12:42 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote: On 9/19/2017 1:14 AM, wrote: I don't seem to have the problem. I can just forget I am 15 feet in the air and do my job. I am pretty careful setting up my ladder and I usually have a bail out plan (something I can grab, a soft place to land or something) The trick ends up turning a fall into a jump if you know you are going down and hope for the best. I doubt all the preparedness in the world would prevent the feeling I get on a ladder or on a roof, especially near the edge. I've been told it's really an anxiety attack. I've tried the mind over matter thing, willing myself not to freak out but when it hits all you can do is wrap your arms around the ladder and close your eyes until it passes. I never had a problem climbing onto a roof but, for years, I had trouble getting back on the ladder to get down. I just worked on it and now I am fine with it. When I was inspecting I made a point of climbing up to see things. It kept the sparkys on their toes because they assumed nobody would look at anything that was had to get to. |
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On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 10:23:20 -0400, John H
wrote: On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 01:07:20 -0400, wrote: On Mon, 18 Sep 2017 15:29:44 -0400, John H wrote: I did that in the pool once and it took a year to get over it Did you bust the heel bone (calcaneus)? The ER doc said surgery with screws and plates. I'm hoping she was exaggerating. But, the more I read about it, the less I like it! I was afraid that was what it was but it was just a severely smashed planar tendon. They talked about doing a lot of stuff but I just wore cross trainers for about a year instead of my boat shoes and it got better. I still get a twinge now and then but I am basically OK. In this case there's no doubt the bone is broke in a few places. But it's not dislocated, so maybe screws won't be necessary. I'll know a lot more this afternoon when the Doc has looked at the X-rays. The VA must be living in the 20th century. The girl shot several xrays of my foot and seconds later the doc was looking at them on his computer. (turning, zooming and all the other computer tricks) |
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On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 14:51:47 -0400,
wrote: On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 03:16:12 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 9/18/2017 10:52 PM, wrote: On Mon, 18 Sep 2017 14:53:08 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote: Amazingly, one night I was there when it snowed at least a foot, and the next morning, early, the union rep from the local arrived on time to pick me up. The streets had already been cleared. The snowbanks along the curbs were huge. === That happens routinely in the "Lake Effect Snow Belts" on the south side of Lake Ontario and Lake Erie. Even small towns budget millions for snow removal. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com I've spent a total of months in Canada on projects over the years. Never saw snow like they get in Rochester, New York though. One of my longest day trips to the University of Rochester lasted over a week. Snow started and I couldn't get out. === Heh, welcome to Upstate NY. Wonderful weather for a few months in the summer, not so much the rest of the year. It's a good place to be from. :-) The strange thing is Endicott/Binghampton is not that far away and the weather is fairly moderate for up north. The lakes don't seem to affect it that much. I spent Oct-Dec up there in 80, working at the support center. I went home for Christmas and never went back. It was still to "up north" for me. |
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On 9/19/2017 9:32 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 10:23:20 -0400, John H wrote: On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 01:07:20 -0400, wrote: On Mon, 18 Sep 2017 15:29:44 -0400, John H wrote: I did that in the pool once and it took a year to get over it Did you bust the heel bone (calcaneus)? The ER doc said surgery with screws and plates. I'm hoping she was exaggerating. But, the more I read about it, the less I like it! I was afraid that was what it was but it was just a severely smashed planar tendon. They talked about doing a lot of stuff but I just wore cross trainers for about a year instead of my boat shoes and it got better. I still get a twinge now and then but I am basically OK. In this case there's no doubt the bone is broke in a few places. But it's not dislocated, so maybe screws won't be necessary. I'll know a lot more this afternoon when the Doc has looked at the X-rays. The VA must be living in the 20th century. The girl shot several xrays of my foot and seconds later the doc was looking at them on his computer. (turning, zooming and all the other computer tricks) Not unusual though. The VA offered me an ultrasound scan as a general screening for guys my age. They are looking for the risk of an abdominal aortic aneurysm which can be deadly because there are no symptoms and if the artery bursts it's usually fatal because you can't get to the hospital in time. The lab tech (quite the cutie!) probably tested guys all day and then later a doc reviewed all the test scans. The VA is pretty good about this stuff. They follow up with a phone call later and then a letter in the mail with the results. I was fine. No risk of an aneurysm. |
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On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 21:37:17 -0400, wrote:
On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 14:51:47 -0400, wrote: On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 03:16:12 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 9/18/2017 10:52 PM, wrote: On Mon, 18 Sep 2017 14:53:08 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote: Amazingly, one night I was there when it snowed at least a foot, and the next morning, early, the union rep from the local arrived on time to pick me up. The streets had already been cleared. The snowbanks along the curbs were huge. === That happens routinely in the "Lake Effect Snow Belts" on the south side of Lake Ontario and Lake Erie. Even small towns budget millions for snow removal. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com I've spent a total of months in Canada on projects over the years. Never saw snow like they get in Rochester, New York though. One of my longest day trips to the University of Rochester lasted over a week. Snow started and I couldn't get out. === Heh, welcome to Upstate NY. Wonderful weather for a few months in the summer, not so much the rest of the year. It's a good place to be from. :-) The strange thing is Endicott/Binghampton is not that far away and the weather is fairly moderate for up north. The lakes don't seem to affect it that much. I spent Oct-Dec up there in 80, working at the support center. I went home for Christmas and never went back. It was still to "up north" for me. === The lake effect snow belt is only about 20 miles wide depending on wind angle. I spent a winter in Ithaca once and it seemed almost tropical by comparison to my home town 50 miles to the north. Ice storms were more of a hazard on the Ithaca hills. |
Yo Bill...to take the heat off
On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 21:26:52 -0400, wrote:
I never had a problem climbing onto a roof but, for years, I had trouble getting back on the ladder to get down. === What helps me is to extend the ladder 4 or 5 feet above the roof line so you've got something to grab onto before you get to the edge. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com |
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On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 23:41:58 -0400,
wrote: On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 21:26:52 -0400, wrote: I never had a problem climbing onto a roof but, for years, I had trouble getting back on the ladder to get down. === What helps me is to extend the ladder 4 or 5 feet above the roof line so you've got something to grab onto before you get to the edge. Now that I have the trick down, it is just as easy for me to have about 1 rung above the roof line and I go directly over it. I got used to the drill when I was only going up one story above my deck in Maryland. Before that it was a 2 story with a 4' basement wall below that and it was just spooky on a cheap 3 piece extension ladder, 20 some feet up. |
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