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The only time we use chicken ladders is if the customer wants to pay for complete moss removal, in which case, we have no choice but to use those. I first try and convince the customer to let us treat it and leave it to the rain after it dies. Most newer homes around here with steep pitches have safety brackets already installed so we can use use a lanyard/harness to walk the roof if needed.  Either way, its not an ideal situation. Even if if we can walk it this way, MAN is it hard on the knees

Good advice.  I'm going to look into an OSHA course.  300 people die every year due to ladder accidents according to the Center of Disease Control or maybe it was the The American Ladder Institute?  One is too many if you ask me.

I have used roof hooks and have used them for years.  As a chimney sweep for over 12 years sometimes it was the only way to reach the chimney.  As a roof cleaner I have only had to use one once. And that roof had more valleys than the grand canyon and a 9/12 pitch.

-- Edited by Roofguard Shingle Cleaning on Saturday 18th of July 2009 05:05:48 PM