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I found this one sitting on the side of a guy's garage frozen into the ground about three years ago. He dumped $2500 into it after the guy he bought it from had dumped another $2500 into it. I've made my money back on it though. $650 to help a guy shingle one of Henry Ford's soybean farm barns (they're 50' tall), $3000 to restore the structure on the same barn, $250 from a neighbor for a week so he could trim his trees. I generally get $75 an hour for it with me running it. Around here they rent for about $300 a day plus $250 transporting and no operator.
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Ken:
Sounds like it is more work and will take a longer time to get the unit to you, than it will take to get the repairs done. I'd have someone come and do the work, since I'm guessing you also need to get boom delivered.
Us cheap do-it-yourselfers' not afraid of heights would do the following:
Back on the farm we would get a light rope and tie a short sliver of pipe to it as weight and through it over the roof. We would then tie that end to a heavier rope and pull it over the roof and attach the heavy rope to the bumper of a vehicle on the opposite side of where you are working. We would then put the base of a two stage extension ladder in the loader bucket with the loader in up position. With the bottom of the ladder latched tight to the bucket with load binder straps we'd use another ladder to get to the top of the bucket.
Then you just climb the ladder and use the rope for support. Sounds like the job will only take a few minutes to complete. We sometimes would use a second rope tied to a 5 gallown bucket for tools. A person on the ground can raise and lower it.
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yooper: Hey you forgot to mention the handyman's secret weapon: duct tape (reference to The Red Green Show)
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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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Ken:
At the start of this, it sounded like you only had a quickie fix to do. The Genie web site indicates the S-45 has a 51ft. working height but also has a articulating jib boom like the photo shows. That should be helpful working around chimneys, etc.
The ladder in the FEL bucket is dangerous. When in grade school one of my classmate's father died when the bucket tripped. Back in those days, most loader buckets were mechanical with a trip release and spring return.
Earthworks:
We did this before duct tape was a widely used maintenance and all-around building material.
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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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Ken, you mention spraying the roof to kill moss.
If you install a strip of zinc sheeting along the ridge it will stop it permanently. As the rain lands it washes an extremely mild zinc solution down the roof, this makes an environment such that moss or algae cannot live there.
I did this years ago at my summer place, and have had no moss or discoloration since. It is very inexpensive and available through any roofing supply house, or possibly bigger home centers.
Best of luck.
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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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KW: Those strips are designed to last a very long time. You may want to spray some a lot of clear water up there on the strips so that they'll "sacrifice" (by design) a layer of zinc and flood the remaining areas with zinc molecules.
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KW: Those strips are designed to last a very long time. You may want to spray some a lot of clear water up there on the strips so that they'll "sacrifice" (by design) a layer of zinc and flood the remaining areas with zinc molecules.
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