scaffolding_brought_down_in_axminster_town_centre

It's not the standard of scaffolding it's the standard of driving that pulls the standards over.
 
if you read the paper this week then your ll know it was nt brushed as the articulated lorry that managed to not only hit the scaffold but entangle himself on the whole bloody thing. It was tied with apollos into the wall and we used the m16s that had been previously drilled. As it managed to drag it around the corner and through the shop window im sure brushing isnt the write wording. As we always do we took pictures of the scaffolding to prove not only it was erected properly but there was no over hanging tubes and it had the correct signs lights cones bulk timbers and hazard tape around each standard. but as stipulated in the licence we have to give 1.2m gaps between standards for wheel chairs and prams mind you the way the lorry ended up if we made the scaffold 2 ft wide he would have hit it. the store workers have seen the hanging baskets taken out from the shop windows and the 2 concrete bollards that used to be there havent been replaced as theyve been hit to many times think the lorrys should either avoid that road or open there eyes as many other lorry got through.
 
richard challis said:
if you read the paper this week then your ll know it was nt brushed as the articulated lorry that managed to not only hit the scaffold but entangle himself on the whole bloody thing. It was tied with apollos into the wall and we used the m16s that had been previously drilled. As it managed to drag it around the corner and through the shop window im sure brushing isnt the write wording. As we always do we took pictures of the scaffolding to prove not only it was erected properly but there was no over hanging tubes and it had the correct signs lights cones bulk timbers and hazard tape around each standard. but as stipulated in the licence we have to give 1.2m gaps between standards for wheel chairs and prams mind you the way the lorry ended up if we made the scaffold 2 ft wide he would have hit it. the store workers have seen the hanging baskets taken out from the shop windows and the 2 concrete bollards that used to be there havent been replaced as theyve been hit to many times think the lorrys should either avoid that road or open there eyes as many other lorry got through.
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Is it one of yours Richard?
Get a grip man there are Indians here that have just come out of the rice fields putting scaffolds up exactly to TG20 and there are a million usless trailer drivers here. And yet not a single scaffold falls over. Its becoming a common thing in the UK.
 
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We had one dragged down by a front end loader a scatter of years back Richard, not a nice feeling but we were eventually cleared of any wrong doing so good luck it will all come out in the wash.
 
We do it all the time Tony usually as an extra rather than to rely on but they are fine as long as they pass the same pull test.
 
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