Possible scaffold work...

Stephen-ELGCO

Stephen-ELGCO

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I am in the process of bidding a new system at a factory nearby the office. They have a brand new system including a huge sidemount fan that is about 16-20 ft in the air. The only to get at it is going to be setup scaffolding. Hopefully I will get it, and get some great pictures. Just thought I would give a heads up for anybody that is interested. Here is a little teaser pic of the fan, checkout the frame and the "oil filter" in the pic.

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you'll likely be bidding against a cheaper company willing to mark it inaccessible! But, it does look like the installers knew something about cleaning! Consider yourself lucky! Good luck!
 
Scaffolding is the cheapest option I have, as I have my own in house scaffolding. A lift will work but it is an added cost I don't need. The company that owns this is a 100+ million dollar company and their on site safety requirements supercede OSHA, as they are much stricter. Also I don't do ladder work at this height, its an accident waiting to happen. Not too mention that OSHA requires three points of contact when on a ladder, both feet and a hand, which is impossible to do when using both hands to hold the wand and gun.
 
Here's one for scaffolding the exhaust dog legs then goes horizontally through the wall into a 5 bay 10 lift transmission shop.

Hold on the pics are still in my camera......taken today.

BRB
 
OK Here are a couple of shots of this lateral.

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Stephen-ELGCO said:
Scaffolding is the cheapest option I have, as I have my own in house scaffolding. A lift will work but it is an added cost I don't need. The company that owns this is a 100+ million dollar company and their on site safety requirements supercede OSHA, as they are much stricter. Also I don't do ladder work at this height, its an accident waiting to happen. Not too mention that OSHA requires three points of contact when on a ladder, both feet and a hand, which is impossible to do when using both hands to hold the wand and gun.
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I would anchor a top rope and utilize a petzle - gri gri....dont know if you are savy with this type of stuff though.
 
RHLpressurewashing said:
I would anchor a top rope and utilize a petzle - gri gri....dont know if you are savy with this type of stuff though.
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Yeah I am pretty familiar with the Petzl system, I used to do alot of rappelling and cliombing when I was in High School. It is definitely an option we have used before in combination with a Bosun's chair to provide a better working platform. However the scaffolding is still the easiest option for us to use since the company uses it almost every day. FYI I just got the PO to do the work yesterday, so I should be getting some good pictures pretty soon and get them put up here.
 
Stephen-ELGCO said:
Yeah I am pretty familiar with the Petzl system, I used to do alot of rappelling and cliombing when I was in High School. It is definitely an option we have used before in combination with a Bosun's chair to provide a better working platform. However the scaffolding is still the easiest option for us to use since the company uses it almost every day. FYI I just got the PO to do the work yesterday, so I should be getting some good pictures pretty soon and get them put up here.
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yeah, good for for you!
 
Got some good news and bad news today. Good news is appearently it has been a great business week for the overall company, a number of large jobs came online, bad news is I lost my bucks of scaffolding to other jobs (100+ bucks in 2 days). Luckily we had our scissor lift come in from another job that just finished up, so I grabbed it before any one else could. So it looks like I will be doing lift work instead, but don't worry I will still get some good shots on Friday.
 
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