Abstract: An article handling tool for pushing, pulling and manipulating articles on the bed of a covered or capped pick-up truck is defined by an elongated pole having a hand grip at one end and a push-pull blade at an opposite end. The opposite end also includes a retractable loop which can be housed within the pole in an unobtrusive inoperative position yet can be readily withdrawn from a chamber of the elongated pole and utilized to encircle or lasso an article. In this manner the loop end and/or the blade allows the article handling tool to be utilized by an individual to manipulate articles of any shape or size seated upon the bed of a covered pick-up truck without the effort and hazard involved heretofore as individuals necessarily climbed into and moved about in the cramped cargo area of such covered pick-up trucks.

Abstract: A ladder mounted gutter protector comprising: a ladder protector formed in a planar configuration and shaped into a generally L-shaped orientation, the protector having an upper region, a lower region, and a central region therebetween, the lower region being formed in a generally rectangular configuration, the central region being shaped in a generally planar configuration and formed contiguously with the lower region, the central region being slanted from the lower region at an angle of between about one hundred and one hundred and eighty degrees, the upper region being formed in a generally J-shaped orientation, the long portion of the J extending from the long side edge of the central region at an angle of between about forty-five and one hundred and thirty-five degrees, the apparatus adapted to be coupled to a ladder in the operative orientation, the apparatus permitting the user to position a ladder against a house or building without damaging adjacent gutters.