Quick cherry picker question

[David]

I'm going to be phoning round hire places, but meanwhile...

...what size cherry picker am I likely to need to access a chimney pot roughly 27 metres up and 3m away (horizontally) from the nearest part of the cherry picker base?

We did find someone local with a cherry picker but they said it didn't have the reach.

Ideal (probably) would be the ones the council use to service the street lights and loan to the Lions to put up the Christmas decorations. These come on a flat bed truck with corner steadies. However not being a local Councillor I probably couldn't borrow one ;-)

I could remove some of the plastic sheets from the car port as a temporary measure but taking things apart almost always leads to further problems.

Cheers

Dave R

[Martin Bonner]

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.

[LumpHammer]

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

[David]

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.

[David]

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

And yes, 27 feet not 27m!

[newshound]

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

[fred]

In article , newshound writes

Just passed a 50m working near me :-)

[newshound]

Not available at your local Brandon tool hire though!

[Mark]

27 metres!, not really surprising

try them again with the correct hight

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[fred]

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.

[pcb1962]

Did you really mean 27 metres?

[Tim Lamb]

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?

[Brian Gaff]

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

[David]

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

[Tim Lamb]

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.

[Adrian]

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

[The Nomad]

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

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Not the same last time I looked

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[Chris J Dixon]

This might be overkill then?

Chris

[newshound]

The guys driving that are *good*!

[spuorgelgoog]

That's on farms.

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

Owain