Different types of scaffolding require specific equipment such as frames, supports, platforms, planks, ropes, and pulleys. Specialized equipment like rolling stands and concrete blocks are also used. Scaffolding is used by workers to reach upper regions of construction sites and can require dozens of sections. Mobile bases save time in steel building construction while hanging scaffold uses ropes and pulleys. Aerial scaffolding uses special equipment to connect the platform to a crane for elevated job sites.
There are different types of scaffolding in use on construction sites, and each distinct type requires specific scaffolding equipment. Some of the many types of scaffolding equipment are scaffolding frames, supports, and platforms. There are also planks, ropes and pulleys used in some types of scaffolding. Specialized scaffolding equipment, such as rolling stands, allow the scaffold to be rolled along the project being worked on, thus eliminating the need to tear down and move the scaffold as the project requires workers to move around the site. Concrete blocks are often hung from the lower pads of a tower scaffolding to prevent the tower from tipping over during construction.
The scaffold is a series of sections stacked on top of each other with a working platform spanning the individual sections. Workers, such as brick and block masons, metal cladding, and various other types of cladding installers, often use scaffolding equipment to reach the upper regions of a construction site. Each section of traditional free-standing scaffolding requires several pieces of scaffolding equipment to complete the section. Two scaffolding frames are connected by two support poles crossing each end and a work platform or wooden planks spanning the section from which a worker can operate. The typical scaffold pile used to reach the upper regions of a block or masonry job can often require dozens of individual sections to complete the pile.
On some construction sites, such as steel building construction, scaffolding equipment is commonly perched on a special mobile base to allow workers to move the scaffold tower along the side of the building when sections are completed. This saves valuable time by not having to disassemble and reassemble the scaffolding tower to reach new areas that require siding to be installed. Some suspended scaffolding requires the use of ropes and pulleys to lower the scaffold from the top of a structure to reach an area requiring work.
Hanging scaffold typically consists of a single platform suspended from a rope at each end and a system of pulleys to lower and raise the platform. This system can include scaffolding equipment such as electric or gasoline motors to lift the platform, or it can be operated manually. Aerial scaffolding uses special scaffolding equipment that connects the platform to a crane to lift workers high to elevated job sites.
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