Masonry Magazine January 2012 Page. 42
Scaffolding Tricks for Tight Job Sites
The surprise winner: Elevating scaffolding proves to be the king of cut-up jobs. Six pros talk about tight sites.
BY JUSTIN BREITHAUPT JR.
In the race for profits in an ever-tightening market, mason contractors are using every trick in the book to increase production and cut job costs. The use of elevating scaffolding on tight, cut-up jobs has had surprising results.
"People look at tight jobs as a production killer, but we see them as an opportunity in disguise," says Everett Greenstreet III of Senate Masonry in Kensington, Md. "We were surprised to find out that's where our elevating scaffolding really performs best. I personally watched my guys set up 10 Non-Stop towers in about 40 minutes on a very complicated wall. You can't do that with frames or mast-climbers; it would take five hours. Five hours! How many blocks can you lay in five hours? Plus, my guys are laying an extra hour a day, because we never stop to hop planks. Add that up."
A Non Stop "triple-tower" is used in conjunction with a mast-climber to lay the inset on this brick veneer building
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