That's a trade off for the lightness, I suppose. It's collapsing them that scares me. You could end up with hands like duck's feet😟
Fair comment about the trade off. The new one I've ordered has stops between the treads, leaving about an inch of clearance so the risk of flattened fingers is greatly reduced. I also have my dad's old aluminium ladder which weighs a ton and would have smashed the fence if it had fallen onto is. That one was purchased in the late 60s and the only problem is that the wheels to make it easier to push up and pull down have disintegrated.
Much more disconcerting than curmudgeonly but I thought a gun just went off. It was a button battery in a pewter bowl on the dresser which exploded. The battery, plus a few others, were there waiting till I could safely go out to the shops and put them in the battery recycling bin. They’re now in the garden, away from any inquisitive critter that might get close.
Yikes again - we keep our old batteries in a plastic container on the windowsill. I'd better go and find a glass one. Do you think it reacted to the pewter?
But I thought the batteries were flat, put there ready to be thrown out. Certainly the noise was startling, maybe not quite as loud as a gun but much, much louder than a Christmas cracker.
The energy had to come from somewhere, so there must have been a small residual charge, which was enough. I don't know where else the energy could have come from.
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Fair comment about the trade off. The new one I've ordered has stops between the treads, leaving about an inch of clearance so the risk of flattened fingers is greatly reduced. I also have my dad's old aluminium ladder which weighs a ton and would have smashed the fence if it had fallen onto is. That one was purchased in the late 60s and the only problem is that the wheels to make it easier to push up and pull down have disintegrated.
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