[TheForge] Scaffold OT

[ries]

20 feets?

Thats practically sitting on the ground.

I had a job a few years ago where I was tig welding 90 feet up, at the  
absolute max reach of a 90 foot manlift. At night, hanging heavy stuff  
with a 110' crane. Against a finished mirror glass curtain wall.
We had to tig weld it, arc or mig could have easily left spatter on  
$5000 window panels.
Every time we moved the lift a bit, the thing swung back and forth for  
five minutes.

ries



On Jun 17, 2009, at 11:50 PM, Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer wrote:

Some guys will go to great lengths to get high.
The one time i arc welded at the top of a 20' ladder propped up against
the end of a boom...I'm sure i turned white when the arc shield dropped
into place. Was very pale and trembling when i got back to earth.
Can't imagine doing it every day.

terry l. ridder wrote:
> hello mike;
>
>
> On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, CGRAF wrote:
>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W_7uIapoHc
>>
>>
>> A while back we were discussing scaffolding with terry.
>> While this is nothing like what he was asking about, I still  
>> thought it
>> might prove interesting viewing over the morning coffee.
>>
>
> not many left like him in the world.
>
>
>> I spend half my life on scaffolding, but steeple jacks still maze me.
>>
>
> so that is what you do in your spare time, hang out at the top of
> chimneys. ;-)
>
>> Mike Graf
>>
>
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