Towable rough terrain scissor lift

TiltyShaun

TiltyShaun

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Been in plenty of booms owned a few tower ones and yeah they’re great for what they do but most the lift work we do is stone work. Plus we are a firm of big boys 100kg plus abd add in say stone lintel etc and booms just can’t cut it or are wobbly as feck.

The scissor lifts with legs offer best working platform for what we do to do it safely and securely. If I need a boom I’ll hire in a very big genie like we use for steel fitting.

Spent over £20k on scaffold this year alone reckon could have done a few Jobs with just scissor instead and not waited weeks for scaffolders to turn up.

Doing the metal sheds scissor is better with bigger work area and can lay blocks off them if you have to.

Working out a basket on slate roof isn’t easy either not designed to be lay down in them trying to replace a slate etc designed for waist level and above work
Some of those photos could have come out of my old portfolio!!
Must have done quite a few estates with starter unit steel framed buildings. Only difference is we had (still have) rather a lot of our own cuplok scaffold which we could erect ourselves (after training) which cut out the hassle of another trade!! Cuplok still comes in useful now!!
 
Giles

Giles

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I’ve toyed with having some kwik firm type scaffold the newer one with circles instead of triangles but again it’s heavy stuff and need clear area in yard and stillages etc.

Take this job for example, (red netting) NT job Tennant house. Submit all paperwork and schedule, book scaffolders in with 6 weeks notice let tenant , trust and my stone lads know start date. 3 other jobs to do so they start mid point of this one and again so 3 Tennants notified of cascading starts.

Comes to week of scaffold no scaffolders, next week we’ll be there promise you. Don’t show, they were 4 weeks late and has big knock on and makes you look like amateur.

In town I’d have pick of 6 firms but not out in sticks.

Single lift half arsed attempted at debris netting, no clip covers on threads etc, they didn’t even supply ladder till I whinged.

£900 plus vat for 4 weeks bonkers.

Lift no good here as front garden and pointing but this other job spraying lime render could be done off lift they were weeks behind on this one as well and I had to net it as they didn’t do it.
 

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GazCro

GazCro

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I’ve toyed with having some kwik firm type scaffold the newer one with circles instead of triangles but again it’s heavy stuff and need clear area in yard and stillages etc.

Take this job for example, (red netting) NT job Tennant house. Submit all paperwork and schedule, book scaffolders in with 6 weeks notice let tenant , trust and my stone lads know start date. 3 other jobs to do so they start mid point of this one and again so 3 Tennants notified of cascading starts.

Comes to week of scaffold no scaffolders, next week we’ll be there promise you. Don’t show, they were 4 weeks late and has big knock on and makes you look like amateur.

In town I’d have pick of 6 firms but not out in sticks.

Single lift half arsed attempted at debris netting, no clip covers on threads etc, they didn’t even supply ladder till I whinged.

£900 plus vat for 4 weeks bonkers.

Lift no good here as front garden and pointing but this other job spraying lime render could be done off lift they were weeks behind on this one as well and I had to net it as they didn’t do it.
The reason for no ladder is the scaffold isn't ticketed, no ladder = not finished = you put ur own ladder up and something goes wrong it's on you.
 
TiltyShaun

TiltyShaun

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hiring ones of these for a week for a job https://www.skyjack.com/sites/default/files/literature-library/NA_ENG_SJ6826_32_RT_TEAR_SHEET.pdf

£500 for the week with £200 delivery + collection, £100 fuel so owning ones makes sense but 2900kg heavy. got to meet wagon 2 miles from job and either load it on my plant trailer or drive it up the lane.
The thing is if you can’t tow it yourselve will transport cost kill the benefit of owning it. How much do you spend a year on hiring one?
 
Giles

Giles

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The thing is if you can’t tow it yourselve will transport cost kill the benefit of owning it. How much do you spend a year on hiring one?
at 2900kg on a light weight 600kg trailer its just about towable

 
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V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
at 2900kg on a light weight 600kg trailer its just about towable

but would the trailer stay together ??:oops:
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
if you could buy one, have a bespoke skele running gear made to carry it on road ... see it has fork slots so wouldn't be too hard a proposition to create something, especially as it's capable of self jacking ;)
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
the sj6832 is 3450kg

needs to be the sj6826 at 2930kg

that other one was the one though I searched yesterday I didn't find it
there's a number on the listing - ring and see if it deffo sold ?
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
See how we get on with hire one first and what it’s like on trailer
bloody heavy :unsure:
........ have a bespoke skele running gear made to carry it on road ... see it has fork slots so wouldn't be too hard a proposition to create something, especially as it's capable of self jacking ;)
 
Giles

Giles

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I currently move Kubota 2900kg ex buckets and track dumper around so no worse than them,

Worse are loads to tipper that you load or don’t weigh had 5 ton stone roofing slates etc

2.9 plus 700kg my trailer should be fine in peaks
 
Giles

Giles

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Arrived today, had asked for 2700kg one but 3500kg one turned up but had to meet wagon 3 miles down one way lane put it on trailer and towed it up to farm. Despite 4200kg amarok didn’t notice it much. Did the job we had to do saved messing around with scaffold towers etc worked well.
 

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