Scafold safety

[TnAndy]

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]

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]

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

 

[Tomtint]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Not all that uncommon, I've seen worst.

 

[Industrial Toys]

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.

 

[JK22]

The guys that framed my garage didn’t even use scaffolding. Instead, they had built these crazy triangular platforms out of scrap 8-by (and I have 16’ walls... they were way up there!). I wish I could find the pictures... It was scary just to look at.

 

[bcp]

Bamboo must be safe!

bamboo scaffolding at DuckDuckGo

Bruce

 

[Industrial Toys]

And workers plentiful.

 

[Jstpssng]

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.

I have fallen off a 2 story roof... got up and the first thing I said was "Holy F***, I'm alive!" Since that day I've been a lot more careful about what I do. Another lesson though, was when I was first on the scene after a hiker had fallen 100 feet onto a frozen river. For a long time after that every time I started doing something a little foolish the sight of his open dead eyes would flash into my mind. I don't take chances anymore, especially when it comes to heights.

 

[Industrial Toys]

A friend who did SAR work in the 80s told us of how someone had fallen off a mountain, lying in a pool of spinal fluid. Friends asked my freind if he was going to be alright. My friend thought that just the funniest thing.

Probably dead wrong here. But I like the "idea" of falling rather than hanging there like some kind of a pinata.

 

[quicksandfarmer]

People think cinder blocks are strong because they're used in foundation walls. If the load is spread they are strong, but they can't take much of a point load. A slight tap with a hammer will crack one. When they fail they fail catastrophically, crumbling. They should never be used to support anything where a failure could cause injury.

 

[Fuddy1952]

Two guys we knew years ago died, their cars up on cinder blocks.