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Pull your hose up and over the center of the ladder.

Gilbo wrote:

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Has anyone seen damage to their hoses from catching on sharp gutter corners? How about damage to the hose or shingles from dragging the hose over unguttered roof edges where shingles are exposed to the hose weight?

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Small diameter hose finds it's way under shingles.
The bigger your hose diameter is, the less likely to get under shingles.
When cleaning a roof, I like to walk to the farthest away spot froim my ladder.
I pull all the hose up I need, and another 10 feet for the funk of it.
That way, I am not fighting my hose.
It is your ground mans job to both feed you hose, and WATCH for accidents !!!
Chit Happens, so watch out ?

Feeding your hose up the center of the ladder makes good sense, as long as you aint working alone ?
Unless you like jumping down from roofs when your ladder goes bye bye ?

But, with ladder wings/stabalizers, not a big deal ...

There is an art a good ground man develops when feeding hose.
Our ground men "whip" the hose while feeding it, as the roof man pulls.

I will do a video one day on it, but I hope you get the idea ?

Kinda like a vertical crack the whip, but not so hard you knock the roof man off the roof either.

Like I said, it is an art, just like I can weld just by listening to the sound of the arc.
Proper ARC Welding  sounds like Bacon cooking, and that is why many welders are FAT, LOL

 

I have velcro straps/hooks that go around my hose and then hook it to my ladder or something stable on the roof so I have plenty of slack to play with while not having to keep dragging up hose.  Works great if you have to work alone or not.

I tend to have my groundsman keep an eye out for me so I don't unknowingly snag something.  Since they dictate my pace, it's easier for them to keep an eye out.

I don't tell them they have a hard job, but it's more vital than mine because mistakes can be costly.

Some guys are just better at holding hose... LOL.