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Default Long telescopic ladders?

On 21/11/2020 17:46, T i m wrote:

Like stepping out onto glass floored viewing platform at the
top of a tower or skyscraper and trusting that it's not going to crack
and you fall though.


Unless designed to crack
https://youtu.be/5e8P1UMUQhk


Flex on a telescopic might be like flex with a reed rather than the
stiffness of an oak tree etc.


But is it flexing because you and your load are too heavy for it. They
seem to only give the static load not any dynamic load figures. Is
climbing and descending a ladder a static load?


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