On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 00:59:04 +0000, chris French
wrote:

I'd also want to allow for say 1/2 metre above the gutter as something
to hold onto etc. when working.

This topic reminds me of a situation a few years ago.....

I worked on the 2nd floor of an office building, and the ceilings were
quite high on each floor. I don't know how high off the ground this
was, but it looked high enough to me to fully deploy a parachute on
the way down.

One day a ladder appeared at the window - it was high enough to reach
the bottom of the window, but not the top. A few seconds later a chap
reaches the top of the ladder, and stands on the top couple of rungs
without any support at all to clean the windows. Then back down again.

I watched him do other windows around the building and felt quite
sick, I don't like heights. As he went up and down that ladder (at
breakneck speed in my opinion - quite literally!) the thing was
bouncing back and forth like the infamous Millennium bridge on
steroids.

I don't know how people can do this sort of job!

PoP

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