RicodJour wrote:

ameijers wrote:
"Pete C." wrote in message
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"Pete C." wrote:

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I live alone and truly to buy light things so much
easier for one person to move around

I live alone and have a hydraulic palette jack, engine hoist and
forklift to make it easy for one person to move things around

Man- and I thought I was self-indulgent having my own real handtruck. :^/

Having the right tools makes most jobs so much easier.

I quite agree on the scaffold sections being useful around the house. As a
kid, we always had access, since the old man had a construction company. My
mother even used one too-bent-and-rusted rack in the garden as a bean
trellis.

There's no doubt ladder scaffolding is useful, but it's a question of
suitability for the OP's purposes. For the vast majority of jobs
around the house, setting up scaffolding is a larger undertaking than
doing the work. You're not setting up scaffolding to clean your
gutters, replace a broken pane of glass, etc. If you're laying up a
brick veneer, certainly the scaffolding is the only way to go.

The OP has given two different scenarios for the need. In the first
post he mentioned a couple of guys with materials and equipement -
obviously scaffolding of one sort or the other is necessary. Either
ladder scaffolding if there's a significant amount of weight involved
(masonry work) or pump jacks if the work will move fairly quickly
(vinyl siding). In a later post the OP mentioned around the house
work, that he lived alone and needed light stuff he could move around,
and the fact it was a single story home. Those are two different
scenarios with different requirements.

Frankly, I don't see ladder scaffolding being anything more than a pain
in the ass in such a situation. It's a single story home, there are a
lot of parts involved, etc. The OP mentioned a baker and that may be
the best choice, depending on what the grade is around the house and
the amount of plantings in the way. I have a collapsible one piece
(with a separate deck platform) aluminum baker:
http://www.wernerladder.com/catalog/...?series_id=292
It takes literally five minutes to set it up, fits through doorways,
has extensible leveling legs with casters so it rolls around nicely
(although not so well on dirt!). Only drawback is that it's not cheap.

R

The number one reason for scaffolding over ladders for household jobs is
safety. Non-professionals and ladders just don't mix, probably the top
cause of home project accidents is over reaching from a ladder or trying
to carry tools and materials on a ladder. With scaffolding you have a
large, safe elevated work area where you can put tools and materials
down and where there is far less chance of over reaching and far greater
stability even if you do over reach.

Pete C.