Why is it called a Bird Cage?

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Hi, I am doing a photography project which involves scaffolding and I need to explain in my book why a certain scaffold is referred to as the 'Bird Cage'.

Also - it would be great if you were able to tell me how it got its name and where it originated from. I have searched the internet and haven't had any luck.

Thanks in advance.

Piers
 
to be honest im 17 years in the game and i aint got a fkin clue either
 
I will hazard a guess and put it down to the old sea dog's again. The crows nest/birdscage. Alright alright, 22 years in the game and I haven't a fekin clue either.
 
birdcage

the answers in the question did you never go to your nan's and see the budgie in it's chrome wire cage?
 
ring nasc up piers they no everything.probley charge you though.lol
 
well did think that but thought i was wrong
 
Hi Piers

Hi Piers

I am still not convinced it would be from a budgie cage, as that does not have uprights all the way through it only arround the outside.

All the best. Hope you find out and post on here if you do.

Chris Eng:)
 
Birdcage is cockney rhyming slang for "Stage." Just another theory.

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Mon Scaffy you should know this.
 
Piers said:
Hi, I am doing a photography project which involves scaffolding and I need to explain in my book why a certain scaffold is referred to as the 'Bird Cage'.

Also - it would be great if you were able to tell me how it got its name and where it originated from. I have searched the internet and haven't had any luck.

Thanks in advance.

Piers
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c'mon boys it's blatant
 

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aom said:
Birdcage is cockney rhyming slang for "Stage." Just another theory.

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Mon Scaffy you should know this.
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Think your spot on there aom.
 
Certainly seems more likely to me than the old budgie cage.:D
 
''A birdcage scaffold consists of a mass of standards arranged at regular intervals in parallel lines, usually evenly spaced apart. These standards are laced together with a grid of ledgers and transoms at every lift height. The top lift is boarded to form the access platform for work on ceilings and soffits, e.g. fix lighting, ventilation or sprinklers over an inside area.''
Taken from the link below .

Scaffold Towers & Birdcage Scaffolds
 
I say the clue is in the name, (Yes AOM my learned friend, the Budgie scenario):D

Just like, Table lift (Top lift on a Gable represents a table).

Putlog scaffold, from Medieval days of Castle and Cathedral building, where there was holes left out for the Timber staging ie. Put log in hole.

Cantilever,Independent,Vertical,Raking and Flying shore, all self explanatory, so i dont think we need the help of Dan Brown, to unravel the hidden mystic mysteries of the 'Birdcage'.

However, my learned little Tube Technicians, i have been known to be wrong before:eek: Once in 1968 and again Pancake Tuesday 1998:sad:
 
and for the hat-trick Paddy on Friday the 13th.:D
 
Normally you work on top of the birdcage so why is it not called a bird table!!! :blink:
 
Well I've been scaffolding for 40 years - god that's depressing - and I've never known why it's called a birdcage. It just is. How many standards are required before a tower becomes a birdcage? How long does a tower have to be before it becomes an independent? Still so many things to learn.
 
Find out on the next episode of soap.:D

Very true Tony, it's amazing what you don't know for sure or take for granted till someone asks. Every day is a school day.
 
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