Worked for an English firm that had a contract that had brought them up to Glasgow and that's the way the gaffer wanted the jobs done. I said to him, 'surely it's just as quick to run in your kicker lift' his answer was that they're not paying for another lift so they're not getting it.
I had this with a customer the other week wanting a working lift 15ft when I said it will still be two lifts he was going on for about 15mins saying why should he pay for a lift he did not need in the end I walked away and left him to it.
Who cares? So what it's a massive lift but apart from that looks fine to me! Maybe the customer didn't want the bottom lift in as would be in the way? Don't get me wrong there are some pile of **** scaffolds out there but seen much worse than this!