Working at height

[LadyArowana]

8m is pretty high.

I suppose cabin crew are used to working ‘at height’ but they probably weren’t expecting this https://www.esquireme.com/news/5443...y-real-viral-stunt-on-top-of-the-burj-khalifa

 

[Lacan07]

I don't have any brands in mind but if you check out the websites that deal in ex-hire kit there will be a few common names that come up. With the money saved you could get one with a bigger footprint to avoid moving it so frequently. That could be kind of offset by the fact that its heavier when you do come to move it but working off a bigger platform is going to be safer and more comfortable. I also think a branded one would be more saleable if you ever decided you'd had enough.

I think 'Boss' produce the common pro lightweight aluminium scaffolding towers. My neighbour who's a young builder loves them. He can erect them and take them down alone in a matter of minutes, (it would take me 3 hours).

The trouble with me is all looks doable from the ground but as soon as I get up to that guttering level the doubts set in.

 

[keithevans595]

Matt, if you had scaffold up before it may have been tied on to the house using eye bolts and the anchors for those could still be in place so you could reuse with some of these. I found a couple of achors on the side of my house and reattached my wayward tower to them.

As others have said 8m is pretty high. Is that everywhere or do you have gables that need that height? Maybe go for a hybrid of a tower to reach the normal eaves height and then hire in something to do the extreme bits. Or there's always the option of a stepladder on top of the platform, not that I would ever do that or know anyone who has ever done that...

Another scaffolding story. My mate -- the one who lent me the tower -- wanted to get an old TV aerial off of his chimney before it let go and went through the roof or onto the car below. He put up his new tower (borrowed from a different mate) and tied it into the house as above so it was perfectly stable. He then laid another ladder onto the roof, bracing the bottom of it on the tower so he could get to the far side of the chimney (hipped roof). I climbed up a step ladder sat on the platform with wire cutters, he hooked the TV aerial from his position on the ladder with yet another section of ladder, and then I cut the wire strapping the mast onto the chimney. The next bit happened very quickly but TV aerial was successfully retrieved and brought safely down to ground level.

I thought you were going to say his neighbour said he could not understand why he could not get a TV signal anymore!