In article , "MrC1" wrote:

The rest of the advice didn't get me anywhere, however.

You haven't tried the Yellow Pages yet, have you?

The rest of the responses pointed me to renting or borrowing a ladder, which
is exactly what I said I was attempting to do, but that nobody has one!

Yellow Pages... This isn't rocket science.

One guys said everyone should have one??? A 16 FOOT LADDER? Are you
serious. What-EVER. LOL

Yes, he's serious. And he's right.

Sixteen feet isn't very much of a ladder, actually. I have two extension
ladders, one 16 feet, the other 28. Both get used often enough to justify
owning them as opposed to renting.

Again, the fact that this is a national site was a brain fart on my part -
sorry about that! I'll go try on one of the local ones.

The best local "site" is called the Yellow Pages. If you can't pick up a
Yellow Pages and find a place that rents ladders, you're not trying very hard.

They also aren't *that* expensive to buy. Any hardware store or home center
will have them. Look in the Yellow Pages under "Hardware".

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Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

Nobody ever left footprints in the sands of time by sitting on his butt.
And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?