TiltyShaun
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Some of those photos could have come out of my old portfolio!!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
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!!