On Oct 19, 6:57*pm, Mathew Newton wrote:
Hi all,

I wandered past this today:

http://www.newtonnet.co.uk/permanent/scaffold.jpg

(Forgive the quality, it was a quick walk-by capture with my phone as
I didn't want to arouse suspicion by taking pictures of somebody's
house!)

Are these commonplace? I thought it seemed like a quick alternative to
scaffolding towers. That said, it didn't look like the sturdiest of
things and indeed I was expecting to find something substantial at the
bottom but it was just similar to the top but without the platform!

It wasn't all that clear how it was erected, I am assuming you peg up
the platform at ground level and then slide the whole lot up? What
with though?

Mathew


The trouble with support on 2 legs is that if one joint or leg fails,
the lot crashes down. With a 4 legged structure it won't do well on 3
legs, but it should stay up long enough to get down (the non-fast
way).


NT