Hillside Scaffolding by Pat Thompson

Let’s say for instance you have a house located on the side of a hill and you have to set scaffolding up next to it to place siding, soffit and fascia, and rain gutter on the house. My special scaffolding accessory is the perfect solution to the hillside problem. Designed to fit up to a 1.5 to 1 slope, my scaffold accessory will fit almost any slope you will run in to. And after being placed it provides a nice level means of erecting the rest of the scaffolding needed for this project.

How it works is when it is used in combination with screw jacks, it provides a longer leg for the width of your scaffolding that is stable, adjustable to different slope conditions, and very easy to set up.

Imagine your home being situated on a hillside, and then imagine a level surface following a wall that would be great for setting up scaffolding on. Now take away the level surface and you are left with what? Two legs, or maybe just one leg of you scaffolding is on the ground and would normally have place cribbing up from the ground to those legs that are not in contact with the ground.

My special scaffold accessory takes all that cribbing away making a quick, sturdy, and safe base to set the remaining scaffolding on. The 1.5 to 1 ratio combined with the screw jacks let you be very flexible as far as being able to set it on most slopes you’ll encounter. It has basic wing nut and brace supports, just as your standard scaffolding has and is compatible with Biljax Heavy Duty Scaffolding.

These special hillside scaffold accessories can also be used in areas where there is a wall or a step on the surface where the scaffolding needs to be placed. When used in combination with leveling jacks the height of this basic unit can be adjusted to put one leg on the wall or step, and the other leg on the ground, and you will be able to do it quickly and safely.

Setting up scaffolding on a severe slope the old fashion way placing cribbing underneath the one side.

Say you set a section of scaffolding up and by the time you get up to the work you are going to work on and you realize the scaffolding needs to be moved 2 more feet in the one direction to work the best. Now you got to tear down and move all that bulky cribbing and stack it again. With my special scaffolding accessory its as easy as just sliding it over the two feet and leveling the screw jacks.

When placing cribbing for a lot of scaffolding, it takes many truck loads of cribbing that you must handle. How many times on this project will you have to handle that stuff. Not much use for cribbing material for anything else except cribbing. And its heavy and bulky. And when you are finally done with it on this project, you will have to load it back up and haul it away. After all you will need the cribbing material on your next scaffold job that’s on a hillside. And by the time you need it again some of it will have gotten rotten.

With my special hillside scaffolding accessory, you’ll enjoy using it time and time again and you will be able to easily store it with the rest of your scaffolding items. But best of all you will never dread setting scaffolding up on a sloped surface again.

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For more visual details, see the previous article with pictures showing my special scaffolding accessories. The special scaffold accessory is always used as the bottom section of scaffolding.