I was going to add that, but I didn’t want to make it seem complicated. The pole with gutter spoon is key for less ladder moving.
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The best though is a walkable roof and a leaf blower.
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I just picked up a ‘toilet snake’ $9 saves you from having to pull downspouts they are plugged.
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Oh yeah.
Unfortunately, the “lawn cleanup” guys always seem to get in RIGHT before we do.
- so the ‘blower technique’ is usually a smaller percentage of jobs.
I use old, cut to length Pwasher hose, it’s sturdy, yet flexible.
Or WFP air hose for flushing.
That gutter hose thingy wcr sells is ballin’. I bought like four of them. They work great for busting clogs.
The spoon/pole combo is fraudulent, except in two scenarios:
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it’s a walkable roof and you can have a guy use it to create piles that another guy can come collect up.
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the gutters are the type where the hanger is underneath the tray, making the tray a single unobstructed channel.
Otherwise, it’s faster to just grab what you can grab from a single ladder set, and then repeat. Jerking with the pole and spoon while trying to pull debris under the hanger is frustrating and slow. You aren’t saving time.
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Agreed, with everything above…
But I did cut down an old Unger Hiflo pole, and use a gooseneck w/reach around attachment.
Two angles that I can flip/switch around to either pull under, or push under the spikes.
- in those really hair/anything helps type of moves.
I wish, I only have one property I can do that at which is great because it’s a 40 unit HOA job. But it has to be done before the landscapers otherwise it’s by hand and bagging everything up.
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You have a blower use it blow them into a pile to pick up.
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I disagree, with practice it’s easy to work under the hangers with the spoon
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Jeez, you kind of have me dumfounded, man.
I guess my argument would normally be that I can just scoop it up as quick as I could chase around/blow into a pile.
But now it got me thinking, my blower has a reverse choping/bagging attachment.
So the tradeoff for less space in the truck would outweigh the time spend.
(hope that makes sense)
Long story short, thanks.
The reverse chop/bag would be much faster, but I don’t think scooping with all the extra ladder sets is faster than blowing them out and cleaning up the ground with the blower. Unless it’s windy the leaves are generally pretty close to the house. In the end I don’t think my way is that much faster, I just like, not climbing up and down ladders, whenever possible. It can be really energy sucking, my main goal is efficiency from the start of the day to the end.
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Here, it’s usually all wet, or frozen due to overload and gutter runs set wrong (rains a few times a week, even in summer). I scoop it out by hand into a bucket and have a roll of garden bags on the roof. Then I start flushing with a 3-way on a hose; one with a twist spray/stream nozzle, and the other with a 3’ section of hose to snake the upper elbows of the downspouts out. I don’t deal with plugged French drains. I just say “your French drain is plugged underground”.
I’ll walk any roof pitched under 8/9, so long as it’s not covered in snow, ice, or frost. I plan my escape if my chances of slipping are above 10%. I was walking a wood-shake roof covered in snow for a window clean, and made sure I’d fall into a tree if I slipped. I did, and jumped into the tree. Been rock-climbing for 24 years. Skiing competitively for just as long. I’m used to falling 30’ onto a flat surface. 2 knee surgeries later, broken neck, back, and both arms… all is well. I’m more careful now, for obvious reasons.
