There is a big difference between being 156 lbs and going two stories up a ladder and being 218 lbs and going two stories up a ladder.
At 218 the first thing you think is that it would be safer to foot the ladder further from the house. But if you do that the ladder is going to bow as you walk up the steps.
To the contrary, if you put the ladder closer to the house there is a greater chance you will miss a foothold and go "chuting" down. Also at this steeper setting the ladder is less stable left to right and you are less stable in front and back.
One way I have done it is to use a tree safety hunting harness attached via a rope to a 168 pound concrete umbrella stand on the other side of the house.
How do you get the rope there? A smaller diameter feeder line and finding a way to fling it over.
If you a "safety line safe" the whole time it isn't too bad.
But you want to bring everything you are going to need up there at once. Because you don't want to climb up or down that ladder anymore than you have to.
A proven corollary to Murphy's Law is, "If you want something done right you have to do it yourself."
Best to pray you never have to go up. As great a climber I was as a boy, I fell off one once as a man.
© 2021 Thomas Murphy
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