Collapsible ladder

I totally agree about ladder safety but one of these little telescoping ladders that you'd carry for your RPod needs to be about 8 or 10 long at the most.  Yeah, you can break your neck falling off a curb I suppose, but the convenience of something like this while traveling probably outweighs any significant safety concerns.  At least assuming one uses it with a modicum of common sense.

I don't recall ever needing a ladder while on the road, but if I thought it was a good idea to have one just in case, this looks like a great way to go.

TT

I checked out some of these ladders on Amazon, just out of curiosity.  Some of them are pretty expensive, but 'not cheap' is probably not the best metric anyway.  You know, things can happen no matter what precautions you take, butjust guessing, inspecting your equipment before each use may have prevented your scaffolding accident.

The OP suggested this ladder for cleaning off the top of his slide-out.  You have to get your feet, what, 3, maybe 4 feet off the ground to do that?  This ladder is probably appropriate for that use.  (He's not suggesting painting second story eaves.)  The OP didn't provide a link to his ladder, but some of them are EN 131 certified and cost over $400.  He did not suggest going out and buying any old piece of crap that sort of looks like a ladder.

Per my previous post, I did trip off a curb a few years ago.  I didn't break my neck, but i did crack a rib which nicked my spleen which almost had to be removed, and I spent most of a week in the hospital.  (I don't remember what I had to laugh about, but I did anyway.  God, it hurt!)   I still step off curbs, I still climb ladders, 18 or 20 feet in the air today, and I just bought some rappelling gear.  Maybe I'm nuts.  And I have always cut my own firewood, out in the woods by myself.  I have the deepest respect for safety and common sense though, and I constantly remind myself not to become complacent about paying attention.  Maybe I'm a lucky idiot, but heck, you take chances when you get out of bed every day, forget about driving to work, or eating food that someone else prepared for you.  One of my minor paranoias is why in the world do we trust people driving on a country two-lane road coming at us at 60 miles an hour at night to stay on their side of the road?!  Day or night for that matter.  All due respect, and sorry for your injuries, but we've all heard horror stories about driving cars that make your scaffolding accident seem minor.  Everything is a risk, but we all make choices, hopefully following safety guidelines and using some intelligence and common sense.

If you don't like ladders don't climb them, no problem. I can't argue against the OPs suggested ladder for the purpose proposed though.

TT