attatching yourself to a roof

[rich r]

I've worked with a harness and retracting fall arrester (ie like a car seatbelt on your back) many times when I was at university running cables along the rooftops. Definitely a big fan of a proper harness rather than anything improvised with a rope as you could easily cause yourself more damage than actually falling to the ground (there might be something soft to land on, versus 100kg of me being used to cut circulation to my legs off). But as said above, proper harnesses are not cheap.

I can't bring myself to walk on the slate roof of my house, as I know that the only thing holding most of them in is 80 year old mortar and a hint of corroded nail into battens that aren't going to take my weight. To sort my cracked chimney stack I'm going to have to hire scaffolding or a scissor lift or something.

 

[fixerupper]

I'm with you on this ,always best not to walk on the roof ,cat ladders and boards to spread you weight with "softeners " to protect the tiles or slates .. Fall arresters are fine for some jobs , when I did work on tall building , towers , chimney, cranes , bridges etc ..we allways used the work positioning method .. You have a selection of short( less than 150cms ) strops that hang from your climbing harness and you always have one clipped on to the structure or safety line... jeff