Van thiel v,s tube and fit...

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jonnybegood

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An excellent write up on Van Thiel, I'm personally a fan of the system, it has some great benefits.

It's interesting how the Dutch typically build their scaffolds...firstly the wedges are not part of the fitting, they carry them loose 'wild west style' in a belt....

Also the scaffolds tend to be built with floor level lifts, no ledger braces but tied at every floor level - the lifts being aligned with the floors of the building.
 
thats how we are doing at the moment on a couple of jobs BUT its not tg 20 08 compliant without the small lift

sounds good but it would take me some time to get used to the twist in dropper

i worked for a chap that bought so tube and we used it in a lift shaft ....on one occasion we had to take a couple of lifts off and leave a platform with no scarfs standing up ...
we cut the offending scarfs and the boss found out it was the van tiel gear he almost had us charged a scaffolding crown court lol

sounds good gear though ......
i think the english scaffs i have come across would find it hard to make the transoms up as they start their base outs with one tube one base plate and don't think any further than that
 
a few lads on a course i was on used it and seemed top think it was great.fooking expensive though

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got a disc on the stuff somewhere
 
jonnybegood said:
the loose spear has been done away with,the spear (pin) is now attached to the fitting all one component...
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I remember the loose spears well.
The Dutch offshore scaffs used to get hours of entertainment watching the British "best scaffs in the world" struggle with hammer, gloves, spear and fitting!!
Even seen one scaff passing each spear to another scaff as he needed them someting like a surgeon being passed equipment by a nurse during an operation.
Happy days fondly remembered.
 
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