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The first step for my shop
Frank S:
Here is the platform on the mobile scaffold
And the rest of the purlin for the roof
DanG:
I'd like to play a game that is so much fun
And it's not so very hard to do...
The name of the game is OSHA Says
And I would like for you to play it too...
YOW!
I've had my share of $500 fine Inspector polaroids snapped being on similar scaffold w/o safety lines // guard rails...
Tell us you've been to jump school and pack your own parachute!
Frank S:
Dan G, Yes I went through jump school but that was 45 years ago. I've also walked out to the tip[ of the boom on a tower crane that was 300 feet tall with a 200 ft boom to free a fouled trolley line.
The last OSHA inspector I saw on a job site had a yard of concrete dumped on him from 200 feet in the air never proven if it was accidental or intentional.
tanner0441:
Hi
Funny how things trigger memories, in my distant past I did 2 years working in plant maintenance. not 300 ft but fifty ft up the jib of a Coles crane, tire lever in hand on a freezing cold very windy morning to get the cable back in the sheath, the driver bounced the bucket off a spoil heap. Before the days of health and safety, you just got on with it. It's amazing how much grip you can get on freezing cold steel braces with your legs.
Brian.
Frank S:
All kidding aside the reason I constructed the mobile scaffold then built a 4 ft wide 32 ft long platform was because I don't trust the standard scaffold boards everyone uses. Brick layers will only use a single 2x12 laid between to scaffold frames then span 12 or 12 ft to the next set of frames Hvac guys will spread several boards out but do the same thing.
Every frame of my scaffolding is diagonally tied to the next and all connecting pins are bolted to the bottom and the upper section of frame the scaffold jack screws are captured in H beams and every frame is chained and bound to the frame of the bus chassis I have screw jack stands to place under the H beams. Whether or not I will decide to wear my 5 point rig with drop lanyard will depend on whether or not I decide to walk the trusses Drop lanyards are about useless at 17 ft height because the drop you 10 ft to 15 ft depending on the lanyard. SO I will probably use my 4 ft tie off strap.
Now I had been asked for several weeks now by some friends of mine as to how I was planning on flying the purlins and other stuff to the top.
So I decided since the Skytrack forklift I used to hang most of the trusses is 240 miles away and not available all of the time, I made me a gin pole for my back hoe and mounted it to the fork carriage on the loader.
I hung a 500 lb weight from the end of the pole while the end was on the ground before spooling the cable then raised the pole by tilting the loader then raised the arms as high is they would go. to see how much deflection there would be in the pole at its worst case. %00 lbs at the end of a 24 ft pole was a lot of load on the tilt but I will be using the pole at a more upright position and lifting less than 100 lbs each pick and mostly not needing to move around at all
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