Customer wants the soffits finished on their log house. 1×6 t&g cedar and a fair amount of scribing where the soffits meet the log rafter tails, so the staging has to be comfy, safe, convenient, etc. The shed dormer on the house is over a 4-foot section of 7:12 metal roof. The chances of me standing on this to do the work are zero. Some type of platform has to be put up. The standing ribs of the roofing are not pinched shut, so using vise grips to create ‘stops’ is out.
How would ya’?
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just rent a snokle lift for the day
No way to get it in position for this spot. The only one on the island is a tow-behind and there is no vehicle access there, and the ground isn't flat anyway.
Nail some lookouts to a post with some cross braces. A chicken ladder up each side.
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We've got chickens, and they've got a couple of ladders in their coop... 1x8 boards with scraps of lath nailed on as 'rungs' a few inches apart. Is a man-sized version of the same thing what you're talking about?
We use the "fly" section of an extension ladder ( usually an old bent ladder) and clamp off...you may need to anchor to the eave some how..like a pumpjack pole or scaffold.
That is yer chicken ladder.
I might use pipe staging from the ground ,coming just at the roof edge.Use 36" side arm brackets to extend platform into the area just below the shed dormer.
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The rental yard here doesn't have sidearms. I guess I can see setting up regular scaffolding on the deck where the photo was taken, to a level a couple feet above the gutter. Then get some carpet and some 2x and set up some crosspieces from the scaffold planking over to the roof, then set up some work planks across that.
Back in the day I could get scaffolding set up by Sunbelt. They could create access to anything, including stairs.
Try another rental place. Sunbelt got a big OSHA bust and has gotten pretty wierd with their scaffold rental. I needed about 4 bucks to complete a set up. I had to take outriggers, guard rails and toe boards I couldn't use just to get the 4 bucks.Birth, school, work, death.....................
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There's one rental place, period. If I want other gear I truck it from off-island. I'm seriously thinking about buying some scaffolding myself, since this keeps coming up. About 6 sections would do a lot.
I'm seriously thinking about buying some scaffolding myself
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The rental places on the mainland sell used scaffolding periodically. I just need to catch them when they're selling and I have a job coming up that will justify it.
You're right that on that few a number of lifts counterweight would be needed,as well as use pins in the connecters of each lift.
It doesn't look like that far to the dormer from the eaves of the lower roof.
I just found some hang on side brackets today that will go either way (bisexual). They'll hang perpendicular to the buck as well as in line. I bought two of these things about 15 years ago from a mason going out of business and had not seen any since. They're pretty handy in special cases.
I don't see any problem rigging this situation, but I've got lots of equipment. Trying to rent what you need for something like this gets hairy sometimes.Birth, school, work, death.....................
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I'm the same as you Grant,I own all my equiptment so staging up almost anything is just a matter of getting all the pieces on site.
I've got both side arm and end arm brackets that have fixed attachments,and just two of the adjustable ones that can serve either function.
Just setting up a good sized slate install on a Greek Revival home built around 1840.
I 'd probably screw 2x4 cleats to bottom of dormer wall( into studs of course), then build pipe scaffold up as high or higher than wall /roof intersect( ladders toward house.) plank on scaffold then cross plank to cleats on wall. if you have long enuff planking lay it across the cross planks for a full length work deck.
Hinge a couple of 2x8s together. Lay 'em on the roof and raise the top piece where it's level. Screw some 2x4s to them to support the top. Hang them from some ridge hooks. Run a pic between them. You can stand on the 2x8s beside the dormer to do the rake soffit. Set up time once the materials are gathered: about an hour. Have fun.
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I would pinch the ribs shut with vise grips. They don't look that open in the picture. The ribs are never as tight as they need to be to use vise grips. It takes a couple of strong compressions to make them tight. OTOH you are there and have to make the call.