Probably not just a weight issue.
When I finished secondary school, I worked for a summer with a roofing company. I would run up and down ladders with 50lb lumps of lead on my shoulders, walk along parapets with a 60 foot drop on one side, without blinking.

Last year I had to clean my gutters, and found climbing up 20' on a ladder was distinctly uncomfortable.

Seems almost 30 years changes your attitudes.

Good luck anyway, hope you survive the storm.
(username failed moderation, Tue 12 Jun 2012, 10:56, 1 reply)

Cheers.
Heights never really worried me.
Then I took apart our gazebo with the neighbor. Standing on a joist that really should've held me but didn't - resulting in a very stretched leg and sore "groin". Thankfully.
Since then I've been a little more wary - 'frinstance, I won't get up on the roof at work to clean gutters.
Not cause I'm a wuss but because I'm supposed to have "height-training", which I've done in the past but this company doesn't recognise that qualification.
No way am I at 39, fat & bald getting up on a roof without insurance.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Tue 12 Jun 2012, 11:48, closed)