Scafold safety

TnAndy · Nov 15, 2019

Neighbor of mine is getting his new house bricked. I stopped by the other day and got to laughing at the masons scafold setup. They put three sections on top what the photos show. If I'd done something like this, OSHA would have problem parachuted in with fine book in hand.....ahahhaaaaaaa.

nyone · Nov 15, 2019

Im not Mr safety and may use that with only one level of scafolding but 3 nope! I would rather use a ladder. They do make screw/adjustable feet for those things just for this reason.

Industrial Toys · Nov 15, 2019

He clearly doesn't know how to push the safety envelope. This is how it's done! lol

Tomtint · Nov 15, 2019

A fèw months ago we were working for one of the largest national construction companies in the nation. ..we were working on a baker staging that was 2 racks high. The platform was at 10' AFF. They made us use out riggers and a cage around the work platform... then have it inspected and green tagged before climbing on it.....and every time it was broken down and moved/re-assembled..inspected and green tagged again before using it. Friggin ridiculous....I was told that come 2020 thiscompany will not allow anything more than a 6k' step ladder on job sites

Industrial Toys · Nov 15, 2019

In my opinion. Much about safety is what you are comfortable with. I am not comfortable being tethered. It's a bother and distracting. I do not feel as safe felling a tree with head and hearing protection as I do without. I like to be able to hear, see and have free movement.

Steppenwolfe · Nov 15, 2019

Tomtint said:
A fèw months ago we were working for one of the largest national construction companies in the nation. ..we were working on a baker staging that was 2 racks high. The platform was at 10' AFF. They made us use out riggers and a cage around the work platform... then have it inspected and green tagged before climbing on it.....and every time it was broken down and moved/re-assembled..inspected and green tagged again before using it. Friggin ridiculous....I was told that come 2020 thiscompany will not allow anything more than a 6k' step ladder on job sites

Baker scaffolds are the worst when it comes to safety. I like the cages and if two sections high the outriggers as well, but Inspected every time it's broken down is ridiculous. Shoot, now if you're on a 19ft scissor lift they want you tied off.

homesteader13 · Nov 15, 2019

Tomtint said:
A fèw months ago we were working for one of the largest national construction companies in the nation. ..we were working on a baker staging that was 2 racks high. The platform was at 10' AFF. They made us use out riggers and a cage around the work platform... then have it inspected and green tagged before climbing on it.....and every time it was broken down and moved/re-assembled..inspected and green tagged again before using it. Friggin ridiculous....I was told that come 2020 thiscompany will not allow anything more than a 6k' step ladder on job sites

I don't think I'd want to use anything much taller than a 6K' step ladder myself!
Hahaha, sorry, I couldn't resist!

TnAndy · Nov 15, 2019

Industrial Toys said:
He clearly doesn't know how to push the safety envelope. This is how it's done! lol

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OK...you win !

Reminds me of building my mom a house many years ago. Wife and I were putting up horizontal siding using pumpjack scafold with a single 2x12 between the two upright 4x4's, about 12' apart. Worked all day on it, at one point being about 25' up (two story house with exposed tall full basement on that side).

Got done, cranked the jacks down to within a couple feet of the ground, and we just happened to walk to the same mid point of one board, which snapped in half due to a big spike knot on the under side of it we had not seen ! Whew.....

PILOON · Nov 15, 2019

Not all that uncommon, I've seen worst.

Industrial Toys · Nov 15, 2019

I bet it was the bending planks! I will never know if they had screwed them down!

Fortunatley some of my customers still look the other way to safety. Last week operating a scissor lift with no permit and harness. But then it wouldn't go high enough outside, so they used an indoor electric forklift with a basket, to hoist me up. At one point the truck hit uneven pavment, and I thought that was it. Still not high enough, so we put a ladder in the basket!

Did I mention I don't like heights? Some of us, just have to get things done, if we want to get paid and earn a living.