You would think that my hobbies
included standing on aluminum ladders in the pouring rain and cleaning gutters, as much time as I spend doing that. But no, they’re just most annoying then, which is why I clean them then. Fortunately for me, I have frog togs, which means only my hands and eyeglasses get wet. Well, and my feet. if I’m gonna stand on an aluminum ladder in a thunderstorm I want there to be GOOD contact. Though the aluminum rungs on bare arches are murder.
12 comments Og | Uncategorized
Yep. Wipers have a similar issue. Never replace them till it is raining. At least I have a new one in the truck, now to get it before the next celestial watering.
It’d help if you were holding a steel frame umbrella with a machined aluminum handle, wouldn’t it?
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Oooooh! I like it!
Wile. e. coyote beware.
I have a tool that I’m going to give you, since I can no longer use it. It’s designed to be attached to a hose, and the end is bent into a hook shape. That end goes into the gutter you wish to clean. Theoretically, the water coming from this implement pushes the junk along the gutter.
It is extendable, though I have not measured just how long it can get. Next time I see you, I hope to remember to bring it along.
That way you can stand on the ground holding an aluminum pole aloft.
Also, you can rent these things, I think they are called “teenagers”, to do that sort of work for you. And if they fall off the ladder it not like the human race is losing anything useful since they were probably going to fall off something eventually anyway.
yeah, right.
Come around, Hale, and see if you can find a teenager in a 20 mile radius of my house who is willing to engage in anything like manual labor. Things aren’t like when we were kids and were willing to engage in slave labor for pocket money.
Og, I know it hard to imagine in the Prof, but his words this time conveyed a bit of cynicism directly related to the reason you find the willing teenager so scarce (“not losing anything useful”). Maybe I’m being a bit more charitable today than normal, but, on the other hand, maybe your snarksighter needs recalibrating too. :)
I have been trying for four years to find a kid who will push a lawnmower around, to no avail.
Pushing lawnmowers is big business now. A teenager trying to get in on that is likely to get his kneecaps broken.
(I think it was you recommending I get into that business)
I cant get a lawn service to cut my lawn either.