WERNER Padded Fixed V-Rung

Easy to install. Instructions were perfect, however, the pictures could have been better. Fir perfectly and worked as intended. I felt safe and secure leaning my ladder against my tree.

I love this thing. Keeps your ladder stable on trees. I haven't used it on a pole yet, but I think it would work good in that situation as well. Easy to install. My ladder was predrilled to accept this attachment. Just bolt it on and go. I ordered a second one for another one of my ladders. These things are great.

Fit perfectly on my 28 foot aluminum extension ladder, just had to drill 4 holes. I didn’t get the angle quite right but it worked great anyway. Felt very stable for staining the poles on our log home.

Little confusing to install but once one side is done the second side is much easier. keeps ladder much more stable on any pole. I tried the cheaper one but sent it back because it did not work. This one does and I recommend it if you need to use your extension ladder on a round pole. I have a Werner Fiberglass ladder and the pre-drilled holes in the ladder were in perfect alignment for the brackets.

Fits good on our ladder to use at a corner

Yes, this does make a very stable ladder on a tree. I have a 28 ft ladder & it's very scary to climb up to the top with the top of the ladder wiggling back & forth. This really helps a lot. Make sure you also tie the top of the ladder to the tree with a strap just to be safe. I was impressed at the engineering of this accessory. It's designed to make your assembly easier by making the frame hold the locknuts still while you tighten the bolts from the outside. That was a very nice touch & much appreciated.The instructions DON'T tell you everything you need to know to assemble the v-rung correctly. There's 2 triangles you must mount onto the rung & they are not symmetrical. It's very easy to just assemble them according to the illustrations, install it onto the top of the ladder, then run the extension ladder up the tree only to find out the v-rung is 180⁰ off. So then you have to take the ladder down, remove the v-rung, & try again. My suggestion is, when installing on the ladder, make sure that the v-rung is pointing upward towards the tree at about a 45⁰ angle. They don't tell you anything about that in the instructions because they assume everyone knows that. Be forwarned.

I'm a caretaker on a small ranch and the landowner's yard has massive Scotch Pines that I've struggled with trimming the dead branches off of as my extension ladder always felt unstable even on the trees with wide trucks.Got my landlord to help drill the holes and install then carefully tested it on one of the trees with a narrow trunk. The ladder did NOT slip on the truck at all, even when I tried to make it. So happy with this device; it's a game changer!

I needed to get into trees higher than typical step adders allow and stumbled across this product. My Werner aluminum extension ladder side rails are 1/2" wider distance than the new V-rung adjustment allows and I had to modify the install.- First I used the included pre-drilled plates as a template for the new mounting I required and drilled the holes perpendicular to top of the side rails and parallel to the ladder's scuff guard end cap.- Second- I assembled the new V-rung (left side to left side, right side to right side) and discovered the mounted angle was towards the bottom of the ladder instead of angled towards the top. This simply requires flipping the whole assembly side-to-side and now the angle is correct.- Third I added 1/4" of aluminum flat stock to each side between the new V-rung assembly and ladder side rails to make up for the greater width of my ladders rungs. This also required replacement of the mounting screws with 1" long #10 stainless and nyloc nuts.I was in 4 trees this morning at a ladder height of 14' above ground and the ladder was very stable. Note I also strapped the ladder to the tree using a small load binder strap 3' down from the top of the ladder to ensure safety.