Edit: Here’s a compilation of all the Cleveland bath gags.
Once I got the first set of rails mounted, it was a bit easier since I could anchor them to that. But the first set, whew, it was all I could do to hang onto my tools and/or parts. This is despite anchoring my backpack full of tools/materials. Backpack was just not reachable when I was doing the bottom and middle mounts.
Only got one rail (5 panels) installed today. Spent a lot of time going up/down retrieving dropped tools, getting random stuff I didn’t think I’d need, and struggling to not fall off the roof myself. I get vertigo easily, so this is proving to be more challenging than I thought. Two more rails (10 panels) left to install, but that’s a tomorrow problem.
Yes, they’re intentionally off-center on the mounts for spacing reasons. Also, yes, I blurred out my house because apparently you can just feed these to a tool that can identify my location. God I hate the internet.
So they make tool belts. Quite useful to avoid braining anyone with the pointy end of a claw hammer.
Yeah, I should get one of those, lol, but I generally don’t need one since I do most of my work on the ground and near a table or bench or something. This is the first, and probably only, time I will ever be doing work on the roof. Plus, I was the only one home today so unless some religious proselytizers show up, no one would be in the fall zone.
String. Tie it to your belt loops. Good enough is good enough.