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   Zano | Sep 05, 2003 01:35pm | #1

   Go to your drywall supply yard they should carry the Dura Stilts and they come in 4 sizes.

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   daddoo | Sep 05, 2003 02:20pm | #2

   This reminds me of all of those "helpful hints" you see in the beginning of FH, like 'Why don't you just screw a couple of spackle buckets to the bottom of your shoes'..............

   Some people just don't get it...........

   Stilts are a great thing to have for doing all that high work, but my insurance company actually asked if I ever use them.

   When all else fails, use duct tape!
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   andybuildz | Sep 05, 2003 05:23pm | #3

   Don't get the larger size unless you're under five feet tall.

   Its tempting to get the larger size because the price difference is minimal but...

   at the lowest setting your head will be close to a normal 8' ceiling ht.

   Try Tool Crib of the East for good prices or Ebay.

   I love my slilts, theyre one of my most used tools for everything from trim work, to painting, to spackling to, making my daughter crack up.

   I'm can even walk up and down a set of spiral stairs in em' I've been using them so long.

   Just always pay attention to where you can fall into a wall if you loose it instead of flat on yer face......I haven't yet thank god.

   Be high

            andy

    

   Emptiness is not really empty, emptiness is full of everything.

   The "everything",  just isn't manifest

   http://CLIFFORDRENOVATIONS.COM

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   HeavyDuty | Sep 06, 2003 06:11am | #4

   >> Its tempting to get the larger size because the price difference is minimal but...

   Size matters? In this case I guess not.

   Tom

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   CAGIV | Sep 08, 2003 02:50am | #5

   Try Tool Crib of the East for good prices or Ebay.

   Hunh???Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark, Professionals built the Titanic.

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   andybuildz | Sep 08, 2003 03:03am | #6

   Neil

         Yer posting to the wrong short legged guy....I already own two pairs of stilts besides the short third one....lol

   Be,,,,,uhhhhh

                        Neil....I mean andy The way we regard death is critical to the way we experiance life.

   When your fear of death changes, the way you live your life changes.

   http://CLIFFORDRENOVATIONS.COM

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   CAGIV | Sep 08, 2003 04:25am | #8

   umm, Andrew, you been spending to much smoking time in your teepee?

   YOU wrote, tool crib of the EAST

   I'M wondering where the east comes from?

   It's tool crib of the north. Unless there is a of the east in your fantasy land?

   http://www.toolcribofthenorth.com

     be cornfused

      NeilNever be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark, Professionals built the Titanic.

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   IMERC | Sep 08, 2003 04:51am | #9

   Anything pretty much east of Andy is all wet anyways. 

   Who ever invented work didn't know how to fish....

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   IMERC | Sep 08, 2003 04:52am | #10

   Being east of Andy takes a boat. 

   Who ever invented work didn't know how to fish....

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   woodbutch | Sep 08, 2003 03:35am | #7

   cough,

   They out lawed stillts in California, So tapers here stack 5gal. buckets and kind of shimmy across the floor. Hack

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   migraine | Sep 08, 2003 05:36am | #11

   They are outlawed in calif, but they are still used...

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   Dinosaur | Sep 08, 2003 07:19am | #12

   They are outlawed in Quebec too.

   I've never seen anyone use them. I'm lucky: I'm 6'1" and all I need is two milk crates and a length of 2x8--instant scaffolding, pas mal cheap.

   Dinosaur

   'Y-a-tu de la justice dans ce maudit monde?

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   HeavyDuty | Sep 08, 2003 08:09am | #13

   Another 6" you won't even need the milk crates... but then you should be in the NBA.

   Tom

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   Dinosaur | Sep 08, 2003 03:22pm | #14

   NBA?? What's that, the National Bongo Association?

   Knew a woman once who wore 6' stilts (72", no typo!), but not to tape ceilings: she ice skated on them, on the Canal to entertain the tourists. Had a special pair of skates made; blades were over 2' long. She told me she used to have nightmares about taking a fall and her feet slashing out and taking some kid's head off--skates had to be razor-sharp, of course.

   She gave it up. Couldn't take the stress.

   I don't blame her.

   Dinosaur

   'Y-a-tu de la justice dans ce maudit monde?

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   PenobscotMan | Sep 08, 2003 10:01pm | #15

   How do you keep from falling off the 2X8 as you walk along a seam, looking up?

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   IMERC | Sep 08, 2003 11:50pm | #16

   Wall to wall plank.

   The too short of a plank shuffle. 

   Who ever invented work didn't know how to fish....

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   Dinosaur | Sep 09, 2003 03:44am | #17

   I keep the back side of my taping float clean and shiny and use it as a mirror...LOL!

   Dinosaur

   'Y-a-tu de la justice dans ce maudit monde?

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   HeavyDuty | Sep 09, 2003 07:35am | #18

   That's a good one.

   You're talking about the Canal Rideau? She must have been a very good skater.

   Tom

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   Dinosaur | Sep 09, 2003 03:05pm | #19

   Yes, and yes.

   Used to work Cirque du soleil as well, also did a lot of French dubbing for feature films. A multi-talented person. Now she raises goats, makes goat cheese, and lives in a house she and her girlfriend built out of what they cut on a piece of land; the 2x's average 2¼" thick and are cut from everything from aspen to white birch to basswood. Siding was cut from aspen, I think. It's a nice place, if only they had a better well (they run out of water in August; unusual around here, but the well has always been marginal).

   Dinosaur

   'Y-a-tu de la justice dans ce maudit monde?

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   woodbutch | Sep 11, 2003 01:43am | #20

   Headache,

   You are absolutly right tapers in california still use stillts, Cal  OSHA barely exists any more and there the ones that monitor safety habits and standards. Hack