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If the new currency issued by the US government is any indication, counterfeiting is big business. From a bogus airplane part to a phony Mickey Mouse, substandard fasteners to funny money, counterfeiting can occur anywhere, with all types of products. What about the scaffold industry? Can...

Is it scaffold? Or, is it shoring? Is there a difference? Of course there is a difference. Scaffolding is an elevated work platform and its’ supporting structure, used to support workers, materials, or both. Shoring is the assembly of vertical legs, horizontal members, and formwork, that is used to...

People do the most amazing things. Take the “scaffold” application illustrated in the two photographs. The photos, contributed by Mr. Steve Schuler of Carl Schuler Masonry Construction Company in Waterloo, Iowa, depicts a scaffold constructed of lumber and mounted to a Ford Pick-up Truck. A cursory...

It’s that time of year when cold weather scaffold users start wrapping scaffolds in enclosures for weather protection and warmth. Since wrapping a scaffold in an enclosure seriously changes the forces that are applied to scaffolds, the installation of such systems must be carefully designed and...

The federal government’s approach to scaffold erector safety won’t work. The scaffold industry’s present approach to safety won’t work either. Why? Simply stated, it’s the lack of information that will make the present approaches ineffective. It is true that the government has sufficient potential...