Masonry Magazine December 2012 Page. 28
SCAFFOLDING
These unsafe practices can put unnecessary stress on
motors and/or outriggers.
John Montecalvo of Caretti Restoration and Preservation
Services shared an account of a job his company did at a
hydro electrical plant in York Have, Pa. "For one drop we
could use, say, a 20-foot rig, and for the next we needed a 30-
foot rig." Montecalvo says. "The reason the HI-LO system
worked so well for us was that we could break it down and
make it bigger or smaller as was needed. Also, the walkway
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that we had to work off of was only four feet wide, so there
was no way to slide one rig past another. We had to make do
with what we had."
Another important safety attribute of modular stages is that
they provide great strength and load capacity. The stages can
hold heavier loads than the traditional straight stages. Depend-
ing on the various stage design/configuration and motor capac
ity, modular stages can have up to a 2,000-pound capacity,
versus 750-pound capacities for straight stages. Having the abil-
ity to hold heavier loads eliminates the safety hazards and safe-
ty violations often associated with over-loading.
An important safety attribute of modular
stages is that they provide great
strength and load capacity; the stages
can hold heavier loads than the
traditional straight stages.