Masonry Magazine October 1974 Page. 23
Uses crane to erect and dismantle
56½ towers of MORGEN Scaffolding.
Set-up cost for labor only 4.6¢ per square foot.
Eloy Garcia Masonry cut scaffolding erection time by assembling pairs of 56½-foot Morgen towers on the ground, bolting the inserts together. Then he used a spreader bar attached to the towers at the joint between the third and fourth insert and erected them with a 15-ton Bantam crane. A stiff arm at the top temporarily tied the scaffold to the wall after each pair was plumbed and leveled.
Once a pair was assembled, it could be placed by the crane with three laborers in less than twenty minutes. A wall 110'x58' on a 300-man BOQ at Ft. Sam Houston, Tex., was scaffolded in 5½ hours at a cost of $295, including crane rental.
This is only one of the ways Morgen Scaffolding can be erected and moved intact. A fork lift truck can erect pairs of towers up to 40 feet high and move them from wall to wall.
Some contractors report they operate on Morgen Scaffolding with one-half to one-third as many laborers on the job as they would have needed on any other scaffolding.
And that's in addition to the 20% increase in masons' production you get with Morgen Scaffolding! Write today for complete information-
MORGEN MANUFACTURING CO. Box 160-F10 Yankton, S.D. 57078