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aerohead · 08-12-2009, 07:58 PM

If this is just a 1-shot relocation you might skip the rack altogether.Stack the ladders,tape 'em together,cover with cardboard over the "steps".Buy a $7 plastic mixing pan from the masonry section of your local building center,cut one end off it and use what's left to create a nose fairing for the ladders.------------ Strap them to the roof with the good 3-inch cinch-down straps.------ You'll have less frontal area,air won't be able to get underneath,and you won't be stuck with the rack.

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aerohead Master EcoModder Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Sanger,Texas,U.S.A. Posts: 16,434 Thanks: 24,483 Thanked 7,411 Times in 4,801 Posts	ladders If this is just a 1-shot relocation you might skip the rack altogether.Stack the ladders,tape 'em together,cover with cardboard over the "steps".Buy a $7 plastic mixing pan from the masonry section of your local building center,cut one end off it and use what's left to create a nose fairing for the ladders.------------ Strap them to the roof with the good 3-inch cinch-down straps.------ You'll have less frontal area,air won't be able to get underneath,and you won't be stuck with the rack.