I've been too lazy to post anything for a couple of months.
I spent a lot of time worrying how we were going to work on the side of the house above the garage. After all, how to you set up a ladder on an uneven roof and keep it from slipping or damaging the roof?
Finally I came up with this setup. We just used sheets of 1/4" plywood with some 2x4's screwed in horizontally. There are two 4x8 sheets of plywood on the left side and one sheet on the right since the house stops there. Since I crossed them and screwed them together at the top with 2x4's, they couldn't slide either direction.
It was a lot safer working this way. I didn't have to worry about damaging the roof dropping tools and all of the walking we did up there. It kept tools from sliding down (notice the red compressor near the bottom and the nail gun near the top).
In the next two pictures, you can see how the ladder is secured and how it kept tools from sliding down.
It feels higher than you might think.
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