How do you like this?

[pat]

We are painting a house on a hill on the lakefront and there is not much room for setting up ladders and stuff so we came up with this rig for fixing up and painting the chimney.

If any of you want to come on up with me, there's room.

[Ace]

I would not.  I don't much like heights, especially on contraptions designed to get you to one.  I'd either opt to spray paint it from the ground, or just leave it the way it is.  I'm glad I don't have a chimney, because I'd hate for one of those things to be on my house.  Or me on it.

We had our tree trimmed yesterday, by AEP power company.  Boy, is it breezy now.  It was by a multinational force, who were pretty much non-English speaking but effective. Now, those guys don't mind heights at all.  They'd just tie themselves to the thing and climb up and whack it down.  I don't like using a chain saw when grounded, let alone up in limbs.  I'd rather keep all of mine, thank you.

A
ce; I got dizzy just looking over the pictures.

[scuzzy]

I'm with Ace on this. With careful aim, using a high-pressure sprayer, you can hit the top of the chimney from the ground.

Just don't park your van near the chimney, as we all know what would happen next.

Scuzzy; if you do park the van next to it, make sure you have a camcorder available so we can watch the results on YouTube.

[Ace]

I believe, using nuts and spray paint, that squirrels could be trained to climb the chimney and spray it.  There are times, sitting under our Tulip tree (well, what's left of it...) that I suspect the squirrels are spraying me, on the back patio.

I once climbed a scaffold when the Penn High School grandstand was under construction, and I was working that summer to dig holes and install the benches.  They had hired a Jamaican welding crew, and we were following them up the scaffold with equipment while they welded the grandstand...  That was the last time I climbed a scaffold. 

Ace; I have to paint my window trim; I shall stick to a ladder (usually literally, if I'm up high enough).

[Bill]

And yet, if you're going to point the cap, looks like you have another level to go.

Bill

[pat]

With a plank all the way at the top of the scaffold you can reach the top, fortunately the top is in pretty good shape and I could wash it with long handled tools. I will paint it with a roller on a pole. a long one.

Hey, I'm not crazy about being up there and if it does happen to go over, camcorder or not, I just hope I'm not on the dang thing.