Masonry Magazine January 1974 Page. 6
'I made twice as much money as I figured on my 1973 contracts. The difference is MORGEN Scaffolding'
-Robert Kahler, Kahler Construction Co., Norfolk, Nebr.
Once Bob Kahler saw what Morgen Scaffolding could do for him, he kept coming back for more. During the last year, this Nebraska masonry contractor made six different purchases of Morgen Scaffolding, totalling over $50,000.
He first bought enough Morgen to scaffold a wall 20 feet high by 150 feet long. Even on the 10-foot walls of the Bel Aire Nursing Home in Norfolk, he showed a 25% increase in masons' production compared to the same men on the frame scaffolding he had used previously. The job had three 150' wings 40' wide, block faced with brick.
He gained additional savings when it came to moving the scaffolding. In 2½ hours two men and a fork lift operator moved 21 towers and stocked the scaffold with all the material for the ten foot walls. Kahler says he would have spent two to three times as much time moving the same amount of frame scaffolding with four men.
The quality of his work and the speed of completion in the dead of winter impressed all the general contractors in the area. His general on this first Morgen job, Mid-Plains Construction Co., insisted on Kahler for their other masonry jobs in Nebraska.
On the Conestoga Mall in Grand Island, Nebr., Kahler not only got the 25% increase in masons' production, but the whole job was speeded up for the general contractor and completed ahead of schedule because masonry set the pace. It involved 400,000 block and 450,000 Saxon brick.
The job started May 15. Working on frame scaffolding with the number of masons available, it would have run into winter work, with the extra expense of enclosing and heating. With Morgen, it was completed by December 1.
Securing sufficient masons was a problem. But Kahler says with every 8 masons on Morgen Scaffolding he gets the production he would get from 10 on frames.
Kahler figures each purchase of scaffolding paid for itself in six months.
"Now my bricklayers sure complain when we put them on frame scaffolding. So the only time we use it is inside buildings. They're sure spoiled."
Now that he's seen the kind of money Morgen can make for him, Kahler is spoiled, too. "I know if I had to go back to using frame scaffolding, I'd just quit. You work your tail off and you can't make any money at it."
If you're still working your tail off for peanuts, write for the whole story on Morgen Scaffolding-
MORGEN MANUFACTURING CO.
Box 160-F1
Yankton, S.D. 57078
masonry • January, 1974