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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
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!

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

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

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

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

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.....

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