Fall protection , fall arrest , safety harness

[skyking1]

No kidding spud, you are a lean mean building machine. I suggest you save all the higher risk stuff for when someone else is home.

 

[Spud_Monkey]

No kidding spud, you are a lean mean building machine. I suggest you save all the higher risk stuff for when someone else is home.

That would leave me only 2 days a week to work lol. I rather get the fall protection system with lanyard, it's only $160 from 3M made for welders. I can always either cut my way out or climb back up the way I fell, I do have the strength to grab a rope pull myself upside down and clamber back up upside down.

 

[cuttin edge]

@aighead I go over the roof to the ground on the other side. ^ It is not osha approved but if you can restrain yourself to begin with, you are ahead of most home users.
Go watch a roofing crew in town and see how they do it.

If you tie off to a truck, make sure you take the keys.

 

[JLarson]

They make deployable stirrups that you can drop and then put your legs in to take the pressure off after a fall and prevent the suspension trauma problem.

 

[old-iron-habit]

you go up in the morning and hang a retractable on those and then pull the retractable down to the top of the ladder. then you can hook on and climb up on the roof safely.

And you only have to do it once. You secure it to the ladder after you are on it and it is there ready before you step back onto the roof. Your short lanyard strung over your shoulder makes it easy to hook and unhook.

 

[skyking1]

https://www.homedepot.com/p/UpGear-by-Werner-Temporary-Roof-Anchor-A210402/203907999

I've seen these used quite a bit. Its just two steel plates and a D ring. Go up to the ridge and screw it down, then re cap the spot or tar the holes. $33.00 is lots cheaper than falling.

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I was looking for some screws at the shop, and I found the bag of screws and instructions for that Werner anchor pictured above. It is a small world.