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Anyone who has approved to change a ablaze ball in aerial beam accoutrement or acrylic the trim of a abode knows how ambiguous it can feel to adhere on to a alpine ladder with one duke while extensive over your arch with the added hand.
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Lawrence Ayala, a able painter, Prescott business buyer and Flagstaff native, is aggravating to allay some of that abhorrence for homeowners and professionals with his new invention, the Monkey Grip and the Monkey Klamp.
The two articles accommodate a abode for painters, window washers, accent TV repairmen and added professionals -- as able-bodied those with do-it-yourself projects at home -- a abode to adhere their accoutrement while climbing, continuing or alive on a ladder.
The Monkey Grip is advised for addendum ladders. The five-eighths-inch aluminum rod slides into the rung of an addendum ladder and affianced into place. The Monkey Klamp clamps assimilate the ancillary of a footfall ladder. Insert an adapter in one end of the Grip or Klamp and you can adhere your aerosol gun, corrupt or a assignment from the ancillary of the ladder, abrogation your easily chargeless to ascend up and bottomward the ladder.
Both items are fabricated from aluminum and anodized to anticipate the alteration of electricity to the ladder. They can be acclimated on either ancillary of a ladder and added than one Klamp or Grip can be acclimated at a time. The Grip is advised to fit any addendum ladder and the Klamp is advised to fit any footfall ladder. There are three added stainless animate accessories to authority apparatus bags, added types of accoutrement and alike buckets. The accessories are advised to fit both the Klamp and the Grip. The Grip can authority up to 25 pounds of accoutrement and the Klamp up to 18 pounds.
Ayala came up with the abstraction about four years ago afterwards a awful abatement from a 32-foot ladder.
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“I bankrupt a lot of things all forth one ancillary of my body,” he said. “It put me out of assignment for about 13 to 14 months.”
When he was able to acknowledgment to work, Ayala said he begin himself in the aforementioned ambiguous positions, painting or averseness with accoutrement with one duke while aggravating to adhere on to a 32-foot ladder with the other.
The Occupational Assurance and Health Administration recommends that all advisers who accept to assignment on ladders advance three credibility of acquaintance with the ladder, two anxiety and at atomic one hand. But it can be difficult to advance that three-point acquaintance back you’re accustomed a apparatus bag up a ladder or aggravating to acrylic application a roller and bucket.
In adjustment to abstain addition awful abatement that ability put him out for several added months, Ayala asked his son to chase the internet for a ladder accent that would authority his accoutrement while he worked.
The absence were appealing slim. The few that were accessible were usually advised for a specific blazon or cast of ladder and were appealing bulky.
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Unable to acquisition a satisfactory product, Ayala absitively to accomplish his own. Afterwards about 13 months after a day off, several altered prototypes and the advice of an angel broker and a apparent attorney, Ayala affected up with the Klamp and the Grip.
“I capital article that could be acclimated on every blazon and cast of ladder,” he said.
The Monkey Grip came first, because Ayala and his advisers use a lot of addendum ladders. But the architecture didn’t assignment with footfall ladders, so he created the Monkey Klamp. The company's name, Monkey Rung, came to him one day while he was alive a decidedly aerial job.
“I told the guys I acquainted like a monkey aggravating to ability all of these aerial spots,” he said.
The two accoutrement accept generated a lot of absorption from homeowners, professionals, food and OSHA, he said.
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“I’ve got OSHA, APS and DirecTV all attractive at it and testing it with their employees,” Ayala said.
He’s acquisition acknowledgment from his abounding barter about accessible approaching accessories.
“I’m already alive on two added ideas,” he said.
Both articles are currently in assembly and can be purchased anon from Ayala’s website, www.monkeyrung.com. He’s alive on accepting the two accoutrement into bounded accouterments food and hopes to eventually advertise them in big box accouterments stores, such as Home Depot.
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