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I need to rent a boom lift to reach the top of our chimney to repair some woodpecker damage. The house is very tall and I'm not sure if I need a 45-foot or 60-foot boom lift. Does anyone know how these are measured? If a 45-foot lift was fully raised will the actual platform be 45 feet above ground? Or does it raise to 40 feet and allow a normal sized operator to work at the 45 foot height? The house is three stories with 9-foot ceilings on all levels, a 12/12 roof on top of that and a chimney that extends a few feet above the roof peak and I need to work at the very top of the chimney.
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We used a Genie 4x4 45 foot boom lift once before to install a satellite dish and it worked fine. Access isn't really a problem in the area. With the 45 footer we were able to work a few feet below the gable peak to install the dish but now I'm kicking myself for not seeing how high it would go last time it was here.
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Around here most boom lifts seem to be supplied by United Rentals and they usually rent out Genies. The Genie web site says their S-45 boom lift has a "working height" of 51 feet which should do the job. I'll talk to them before renting to be sure.
EW, I've been looking for a cheap boom lift for quite some time but any that will do this sort of job and still run seem to cost $15k or more. At that price I'll rent. Heck, it would probably make more sense to rent anyway. It's around $800/week but I only need one every couple of years and wouldn't have to maintain it. Parts can't be cheap. But it would be nice to have one around the house for those times when ladders just won't do the job. I had a 40+ foot ladder but sold it, it was just to cumbersome for one guy to handle. The 36 footer I have now is manageable but it won't reach the high gutters. I'm ashamed to say that once I stuck the base of the 36 foot ladder in the loader and lifted it up another 8-10 feet to clear a clogged gutter (yes, there was plenty of ballast). I wouldn't recommend that either and won't do it again but it did work.
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The Genie I used last time was a 4x4 self-propelled S-45 and it was pretty stable at about 40' up. I don't recall feeling unsafe or shaky at any time.
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Last time I rented a boom lift it was $400 for one day including delivery and pickup. They told me it was less than $1000 to keep it for a week. There's lots to do this time around. I need to repair the woodpecker damage, flash around the corner boards where they peck, and repaint the entire chimney (wood framed). I also need to spray powder to kill some wasps, seal the gaps where they are getting in the attic and stuff copper wool between the gutters and fascia boards in a few areas where bats are roosting. We also have 15 corbel brackets all around the house. The birds roost on those and crap all over the sides of the house. I need to install and paint blocking and install bird spikes on those to keep the birds away and wash off the bird crap. Then I need to spray the roof with moss-kill (several times), move and tune the satellite dish since the trees have grown, and clean out the high gutters.
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Yooper, the only thing I *need* the boom lift for is fix the chimney and adjust the satellite dish. But if I'm gonna rent one I'll do all the other stuff while it's here to make my life easier.
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We've got the zinc strips at the roof peak, and it does a nice job of keeping the moss off the top 2-3 feet of the roof, but below that the moss still grows quite nicely. At this point it's easier to spray it every couple of years rather than retrofit zinc strips every few courses of shingles.
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EW, here in Oregon those zinc strips get flooded with about 50" of rain a year 
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Usually I use the tractor sprayer to spray the roof while standing on a 36 foot extension ladder. But the ladder won't reach up by the chimney so the roof is moss-free except for that area. Time to nuke it
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