On 29 Jul 2005 08:56:15 GMT, wrote:

"nightjar" nightjar@ insert my surname here.uk.com wrote:

"John Rumm" wrote in message
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The sort of incident you might expect when using a chainsaw, but just to
remind you of what can go wrong with a circular saw:

http://www.thisisessex.co.uk/essex/s...ews/NEWS5.html

Anyone who gets killed by using a circular saw while standing on a ladder is
a prime candidate for a Darwin award.

Anyone who does anything requiring the use of both arms while standing
on a ladder is pushing their luck in my opinion.

I'm a trapeze artist (who still has a lot of DIY to do in real life
:-) and I'm perfectly happy hanging by my toes from a 1" thick metal
bar 25 foot above the ground - i.e. a trapeze.

I *hate* ladders though - I've been using them for years for rigging
trapezes, and given the choice I wouldn't use them. Usually I attach
myself to something solid with a harness once I'm at the top of a
ladder. Wobbly, sharp, bendy, shiny horrible things, the lot of them.

Charlie