It was a joke…
Good.
How high were you off the ground?
15 feet or so
Not saying this is the best solutuon but i did KEC for 2 years and we wrapped hose around vent pipe. No matter what, it is a pain.
Why aren’t you shooting from the ladder? See, this is EXACTLY why I wish, now that I have a soft wash system thanks the @Atlas1, I could figure out how to incorporate my 28’ carbon fiber pole so that I can stay off roofs.
I should have taken a pic. The flat roof had the footprint of a strip mall. Yuge!
I had to climb up my ladder to get the first flat roof and up a permanent ladder to get to the next flat roof to get to the area that needed cleaned.
GOOD LORD! Sounds as if you’ve moved into the big leagues, my good brother.
Well heck, all you had to do was wrap it a couple of times around permanent ladder. Typically, even on sloping roofs if you haul up maybe 20-30’ of hose, the friction of hose on surface will be greater than the gravity pulling it downward on your hanging part. (Reason I asked how high you were) But vent pipes, chimneys, or bungee ladder to gutter support and loop hose once around ladder, heck all kind of things will work.
The absolutely last thing I would do is hook a hose to my body.
I knew you were gonna say that. I had to walk the hoses over roof edge around to the rotunda. It was a fiasco. lol I wish I had taken pics.
I’d like a permanent, OSHA approved solution… maybe I’ll invent it and retire from pressure washing.
Just curious, why wouldn’t you tie hoses to yourself?
Heck, a clamp with hose wrapped around. Doesn’t take much, the only force pulling it down is the weight of the hose between edge and ground.
Some yahoo comes along, ground guy decides to move truck, owner let’s 80 lb dog out to play, the list goes on. There are terror stories of people who have tied off their safety lines to their trucks, and other various objects.
90% of the time, just pulling up more hose will do the trick.
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Being that you’re a Navy guy, you obviously like being at sea level and have an aversion to doing roofs, then I think Greg755 's rec. on using the cinder blocks may be perfect for you. LOL
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OSHA does not apply to the business owner, only the employees. If you are the only one on the roof, do what you gotta do.
Make yourself a hose roller
A carbon fiber pole is a really expensive tool to coat in SH…
If you put your self up a roof anchor ( which is approved by osha) then you can connect yourself to it and your hose, with that fancy knot you learned how to tie… Ps customer pays for anchor. They make reusable ones and permanent ones…
You think that would have a deleterious impact on the crbon fiber?
Pretty sure it will. Also it dosent take muck to get in between the poles to make them hard to get apart or lock up.
@RACER… Sorry the last comment was directed at you because you were talking about roof work, but the content was really in reply or for Squidly…
No problem
