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Scaffold tower

Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 11:13 pm
by Hitch
Fitting some doors, customer to supply a tower for us to get to the top hinges....
This is what they set up for us :lol: :lol: :shock:

Boards are at 4metres

Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 11:18 pm
by Mooncat
I also like the lack of toe-boards and handrails, together with the springiness of the planking! :sad:

Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 11:59 pm
by thescruff
Ladders tied in with the new invisible string I notice.

Did you actually go up there :roll:

Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 7:10 am
by handyman
big puff..........just get on with it :lol:

Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 12:04 pm
by Hitch
I told them it was crap, needs a handrail at the very least.
Planking was okay, theyre not normal scaff boards, theya re about 3" thick.

Heres the rail they fitted :lol: :lol: May aswell not bothered :?
Its about 700mm from the planks, just right to trip on ;)

Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 12:41 pm
by ultimatehandyman
Hope you had an hard hat on :wink:

Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 7:05 pm
by 17edSparkyJoe
Reminds me of a site I worked on a couple of years back, customer employed some polish to paint the outside of a 3 story house. They decided it was easiest rather than to get a proper scaffold put up that they would just stack 3 towers ontop of each other, held to the house only by a bit of bailer twine wrapped around the soil pipe. Nice.

Posted: Sun Apr 18, 2010 9:19 pm
by Painter-aberdeen
I've had my scaffold moments lol worked on a series of pre fab units about 10 stories high 6 feet apart.Yep one 12 ft scaffold plank on the roofs was your "staircase" nothing but a plank and a 100ft drop.

The gaffer walked right across,I though FM,I just did the same and when you got to the middle it dropped 3-4 inches,that was a good feeling..NOT!

You got used to it,this was years ago nowadays you'd probably get locked up for it.

Re: Scaffold tower

Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 11:22 am
by Simon Site Manager
You wouldn't get me up on that Hitch!

S

Re: Scaffold tower

Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 6:08 pm
by speed
ive been on worse...

Re: Scaffold tower

Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 7:09 pm
by kellys_eye
speed wrote:ive been on worse...
and I used to have to balance on t' shoe box int' middle o' the road..... :lol:

Re: Scaffold tower

Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 8:55 pm
by yourweb
no cross support. Must be the very old kind that says work on it at your own risk. I can rent better scaffolding than this stuff. WWII made I would guess