Quick cherry picker question

Google suggests that cherry pickers tend to be listed with their "max worki ng height", so you want one with a working height of about, err, 27m :-)

Surprisingly, 3m outreach is not a problem for machine that size - they ten d to have their max height slightly off to one side anyway.

Have you considered static scaffolding? Most sites say "prices on applicat ion" (always a bad sign), and the first one I could find with actual prices was about £600/week.

Are you sure it's 27 metres up? Sounds more Fred Dibnah than DIY.

Yeah - 27 feet or 9m. Trebled up the floor height then forgot I'd done it and did it again. Just came back to the thread after looking at eBay and realising that basically I'm a pillock.

Hire of a cherry picker looks to be around £150 and scaffolding at £600 or more.

And yes, 27 feet not 27m!

Phew, I was just going to post that this would be one hell of a cherry picker!

In article , newshound writes

Just passed a 50m working near me :-)

Not available at your local Brandon tool hire though!

try them again with the correct hight

Indeed, but they are common enough here as Glasgow has a lot of tenement properties that will peak out about 30m and it is def cheaper than scaff at that height for short term works.

Chatting with blokes they said it had been driven from Manchester as the rental company had screwed up and had doubled booked the local ones.

Did you really mean 27 metres?

Pair of *hook over* roof ladders, some softening and a lashed on platform? Or is the chimney at the gable end?

Not uncommon to work on a farm steel roof with a rope secured to the other side of the ridge?

If it was cheap all the aerial riggers would have one.

I also felt very ill on one I was invited onto some years ago, as they sway and wobble quite a lot. Brian

Mansard roof (discussed some while back) so no ridge to hook a ladder over. The previous discussion lead me to look for a cherry picker. [Search for "Popping a cap on a chimney"]

Cheers

Dave R

In message , Brian Gaff writes

So do vertical extending platforms!

For some reason, repairing the minute hand on the tower clock at SKF, Sundon Park, was considered a job for the electricians. As I had hired the platform, the repair team felt obliged to invite me up on the first trip:-)

Somebody may care to Google street view for the height.

I was thinking more along the lines of a helicopter at 27m...

Cor memories of my youf ...SkefCo and Sundon Park

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Not the same last time I looked

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This might be overkill then?

Chris

The guys driving that are *good*!

That's on farms.

Anyway what do you mean by 'rope'? What's wrong with binder twine?

Owain