Scaffolding Urban Myths

[allan666]

you must use a scaff step , used one once and have no intention ov ever using one again

 

[brandy]

Urban Myths.
Readylok scaffolds need ledger bracing.

 

[jakdan]

all scaffolders are tossa's

 

[celticbhoy]

ready locks are the future????

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all scaffolders are tossa's

madman.

 

[RedViking]

Maybe not a myth more of a blag, a trainee I know purchased a wickes boat level (Professional Spirit Level - Measures - Hand Tools -Tools, Electrical & Plumbing - Wickes) rather than a stabila and when on his course some clown of an instructor called Andre at MANCAT in Manchester said he wasn't allowed to use it as he had an unfair advantage on the others and he was being serious and tried to make the lad buy a stabila from leaches !!!

 

[simian]

Urban Myths.
Readylok scaffolds need ledger bracing.

Manufacturers instructions for readylok are readily available

 

[brandy]

More money.

 

[simian]

?

There is a skills test already in place for part two and advanced but not for refreshers. As you say sit on it till January 2016

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Scafftag is law

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A harness will stop you falling

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Maybe not a myth more of a blag, a trainee I know purchased a wickes boat level (Professional Spirit Level - Measures - Hand Tools -Tools, Electrical & Plumbing - Wickes) rather than a stabila and when on his course some clown of an instructor called Andre at MANCAT in Manchester said he wasn't allowed to use it as he had an unfair advantage on the others and he was being serious and tried to make the lad buy a stabila from leaches !!!

Ill ask him

 

[brandy]

Manufacturers instructions for readylok are readily available

Readylok (SGB) Easyfix (Mills) Worked for both, used that system for both, never had to ledger brace them.

The modern ones, Manufactors ? Ledger bracing only required after 30 m.

 

[VancouverLeedsLondonBoy]

What would you need a saw for ?

Exactly what i thought mate

 

[celticbhoy]

pmsl vllb where you getting all these from?

 

[VancouverLeedsLondonBoy]

I have a stack of em mate, keep your eyes peeled lol

 

[dico]

last time i used the readylocks or dogbones we called them was on pizers at sandwich kent for sgb and sgb and there safety officer said we didnt need ledger braceing but i suppose somewhere down the line someones wrote a book and it changed lmfao!!!

 

[VancouverLeedsLondonBoy]

Scaffolding urban myth, turning singles on tranny facing away from you on inside ledger and facing you on outside ledger makes the lift stronger :laugh:

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Or vice versa whichever way you are facing on the lift.

 

[dico]

ive heard doing them up stops a slip hazzard when strikeing lol!!

 

[brandy]

Yes Dico, there are some who think scaffolding was only invented yesterday. lol.

 

[VancouverLeedsLondonBoy]

ive heard doing them up stops a slip hazzard when strikeing lol!!

Yeah mate, that's what I always thought, stops your old joanna slipping off with the bolt out of the gate so you don't fall off.

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Scaffolding Urban Myth....Brickies/ Window fitters etc always put handrails back after they have removed them :laugh:

 

[SWIFTY]

Urban myth; The NASC is the UK's regulator of scaffolding.

 

[skin68]

brickies know how to put their own scaffold up.

 

[simian]

Using singles on standards on a splay with a double checking it

A tube must be 2 inch through the fitting