Red Green wrote:

* The next tip is mostly just
clever and requires two empty 5-gallon paint buckets and 4 longish
pieces of Velcro tape. Cut four slits in the lids of the paint
buckets, thread the Velcro through the slits, and belay your feet to
the lids with the Velcro straps. Ta-da! Eighteen-inch-high stilts! No
more moving the ladder to cut-in the ceiling!

Was he saying to then step on the paint buckets and the lids strapped
to your feet attach to the can and you can walk around???


No, the lids were attached to the cans with sheet-metal screws. I was
mistaken on the attachment of the Velcro straps; they were bolted to the
lids using large metal warshers. The Velcro straps also functioned as a
crude handle so he could carry most of his painting supplies IN the cans.

To attach to your feet, put one foot on one can and "tie" the (Velcro)
laces. Then do the same for the other foot.