Ankalad ladder stabiliser

[Steve Bullman]

I bought this a few months back following a thread on here but have only just got round to putting it together. Took me about 30 minutes to assemble and has to drill 4 holes......pretty straight forward really. Seems pretty stable and packs away nice and neat. Shall put it through it's paces tomorrow

[nepia]

You won't regret it I've just replaced mine as it was several years old and a couple of the spring loaded snibs had dropped out.

Invaluable for hedge work.

I'm going to see if I can mount mine far enough from the bottom of the ladder to fit one of these too http://www.northerntools.co.uk/pages/access/t_basemate.html

 

If you go all the way up that ladder you'll be kissing the deck pdq!

[slack ma girdle]

how high have you climbed before you bottled out ?

 

Try it under a tree, and climb it roped up, just to see how high you can get. I reccon that you will be able to get to the 14th rung.

Go on you know you want to.

[Steve Bullman]

Well the instructions say not to climb above the top strut, so we'll see how tomorrow goes

[John Shutler]

Well the instructions say not to climb above the top strut, so we'll see how tomorrow goes

 

My brothers got one, if someone stands on the bottom and it's up against a hedge(not leaning on it) you can go heaps further than the top strut

[Matthew Burton]

As john says, with sombody stood on the bottom you can get pretty much right to the top leaving just enough to lean your shins on. Fraction scary though....

[Big Bolt]

Steve make sure you keep the slides lubed and free off crap they soon sieze up ,good ladder system otherwise

[David Goss]

Looks like a good bit of kit but ladders scare the hell out of me and i just wouldnt trust it. I can branch walk out to the thinnest of tips without a heart flutter but put me on a ladder and you better stay out of the way of whatever falls out my trousers:lol:

only way for me is to fix it to something solid then i am ok.

[nepia]

Well the instructions say not to climb above the top strut, so we'll see how tomorrow goes

 

 

The first time you start to overbalance is a touch unnerving but you soon learn to put the ladder against the hedge and use the hedge as a cushion. I've hung weights off the bottom rung before now for a particularly high one but Ankalad wouldn't approve. Great device.

[Steve Bullman]

It's coming in really handy today for these conical yews. Any other ladder would struggle to reach the tops without actually leaning the ladder against the yew which is out of the question. With the ankalad I'm able to pull the struts apart to straddle the yew and reach the top easily