Some ladder safety tips, for when you put up your Christmas Lights

Hello, and good afternoon. I wanted to make a quick video to show you something if you were installing your own Christmas lights this year. Please be super careful, I've seen many people this year putting their ladder up the wrong way and when they go climbing onto their house they're doing it in a very unsafe manner. I saw a guy just yesterday climbing he was putting some lights on his tree and had his ladder at about an angle like this. and As you can see, I have to lean over just to reach the ladder, and when the ladders like this the bottom is prone to slipping out when you're at the top. Of course, that does that creates a fall hazard, and you could break an arm or break a leg and I would absolutely hate to see that happen. Then again, there is also the total opposite and you got people that put the ladder almost straight up and down and they got the fire escape, as I call it, and your ladder is way too straight and when you climb it, you feel like you've got to lean in really far to be able to even reach and be in a safe manner, but what that's prone to is your ladder falling backward. So please don't do that now, what you want is your ladder at about a 75-degree angle. Now, the best way that I found to do this is you stand up straight and put your hands out straight. Now if you're standing up straight and your hands are out straight, you should be able to reach the ladder and that's a pretty good angle to be able to climb the ladder safely. You always want to make sure you've got three points of contact with the ladder at all times, so please don't be doing any of this, and don't be trying to reach out and stretch and get those lines, because in your ladder is going to fall over sideways. Please be safe as you're out this year putting up your Christmas lights, keep three points of contact, meaning two feet and one hand at all times as you're climbing you're going up or going down. Don't do the firemen as you go to go down, and let go and slide down .it's really unsafe, so make sure as you climb up and climb down, you have three points of contact at all times. Please be safe as you're out there putting up your Christmas lights this year. If you don't want to tackle it, and you want us to do it, just give us a shout over here at Salcido Lawn we'd love to put a quote together for you and please be safe you all have a wonderful day.