Funny you ask that. I just came back from the Adirondacks and wood burning season has started. I saw many new ladders permanently installed to metal roofs that run to the chimneys. The ones I saw are aluminum and directly bolted to the steel roofs with stainless-steel brackets. You can't bolt aluminum directly to a steel roof because of the dis-similar metals create an electrical charge and create corrosion. Thus the need for stainless steel brackets in-between, same as used for mounting aluminum framed solar panels to steel roofs.
I also saw on on somebody's roof an old wooden ladder. I suspect it won't last very long.
By the way. Just in case you DO decide to put steel on your roof and use purlins underneath. I suggest you plot a path to your chimney and install extra wood underneath, vertically, for the whole run. That to keep the metal from buckling if you step in the wrong place, when travelling up and down to the chimney. It's easy to do, as long as you do it BEFORE the new steel is on. The steel roofs WILL buckle if you are heavy and have small feet, and step in the wrong place. It's all about PSI. Same goes if you rest inbetween purlins with one knee and put a lot of pressure on a small area.
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