Cheap access platform anyone ? ? ?

[Marcella Ross]

😮 ……….. it looks like a cheap decorators table from B&Q!!!!!!!!!! ….. with bits missing :lol1:

[Harry Cleary]

quote Marcella:

😮 ……….. it looks like a cheap decorators table from B&Q!!!!!!!!!! ….. with bits missing :lol1:

😀 😀 😀
And the sign doesnt look much better……….he could have bought a scaffold off ebay for the price of the timber!!

[Warren Beard]

😮 😮 😮 😮 😮

I’m sure he passed the H&S inspection :lol1:

Warren

[Peter Normington]

apart from no safety rail there is not a lot wrong with it…

I cant figure out what the guy doing, is it a blast job, or a spray?

Peter

[Richard Urquhart]

Dave i thought i saw you go passed,

No it wasn’t me !!!!!!!!!!!joke

[David Arch]

Looks like something I’d use!!!!

[Robert Lambie]

although posted in the members portfolio forum, lets hope its not one of our own eh? :lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:

they look like they are stenciling with spray cans but why, beats me.
perhaps they have cut the text from the wood, fixed the wood over a sheet of perspex and where they want a certain colour of perspex to glow behind the black-out wood they spray the colour on the perspex. then, paint over the wood with a roller leaving the coloured text to glow at night?

ok, maybe im thinking to hard on their behalf… but looks like a classic cowboy outfit. 😀

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apart from no safety rail there is not a lot wrong with it…

shame on you mr N, you got that big cranking arm in hand? :lol1: :lol1:

[Peter Normington]

its structurally sound, they have the right amount of cross bracing, and providing they used a good sized screw, I cant see a problem with it…as Dave H pointed out, they use wooden scaffold in other countries, even as close as Spain, and to go up many storeys, it may not look the part, but it is obviously doing the job.

The cowboys built the west with scaffolding just like this by the way.

and here is one made from bamboo

Peter 😉

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[Martin Pearson]

Well I had a laugh, but when you think about it, its not really funny. If people are prepared to do stupid things like this then it is no wonder we are being hit by more and more legislation.

[Phill Fenton]

Yeah – Jus because they managed to make it – doesn’t mean it’ safe

Shame on you, you wind up merchant you 😛

[Robert Lambie]

im counting "one" screw/nail in many places. the back legs are screwed or nailed to the shopfront itself as you can see the legs floating.
access to the working platform is extremely ify and the walkway is only half there. :lol1:
joking aside though…
i have a good mate that was painting guttering 30ft up on a properly constructed tower the length of a building. one of his apprentices said im off to get the tea, back in 5 minutes….
my mate continued painting the guttering moving his way along… thing was the daft apprentice left the small latch door open and my mates foot just wobbled in it and no more… knocking him off blance he turned to try grab the surrounding safety rails… trouble was as it all happened so fast he actually divide between the rails out into the car park below, breaking his back and several other bones, punctured lung etc. he was 25 when it happened and cannot work constantly for 20 minutes without having to sit down for a break…
without a doubt we are upto our necks in daft over the top safety rules, but sometimes you have to wonder when a guy is almost killed by someone going for their tea. 😕

[Robert Lambie]

quote Phill:

Yeah – Jus because they managed to make it – doesn’t mean it’ safe

Shame on you, you wind up merchant you 😛

looks like an old game i had when i was younger…

Kerplunk! :lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:

[Phill Fenton]

quote Robert Lambie:

[Kerplunk!

That’ll be the noise made when the sign installer stepped into the gap in the "scaffolding" platform

[John Childs]

Nothing wrong with bamboo staging. I used it to put this up on Saturday.

I’ll leave you all to decide which is the most unlikely. Bamboo staging or me working on a Saturday. 😀

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