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Hello everybody. I am a log builder and we use scaffold all the time for repairs, re finishing and building log structures. Doing heavy work with logs we have always used the regulation planks that are made for the scaffold. Why is it that on my job sites with other contractors and in almost every fine homebuilding I can find some guy 25 feet in the air on a fir 2X12. Real planks cost $60 +/-. A fir 2×12, $12-$16. How many Fir 2×12’s will crack and break in a life time?? The metal planks we use, unless they are stolen I see lasting my lifetime. Cost aside wood planks are not safe, come on guys! It is sad to me that we in the trades will spend all these resources on tools to do quality work, but not do the simple cost effective measures to protect our lives.
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Hello everybody. I am a log builder and we use scaffold all the time for repairs, re finishing and building log structures. Doing heavy work with logs we have always used the regulation planks that are made for the scaffold. Why is it that on my job sites with other contractors and in almost every fine homebuilding I can find some guy 25 feet in the air on a fir 2X12. Real planks cost $60 +/-. A fir 2x12, $12-$16. How many Fir 2x12's will crack and break in a life time?? The metal planks we use, unless they are stolen I see lasting my lifetime. Cost aside wood planks are not safe, come on guys! It is sad to me that we in the trades will spend all these resources on tools to do quality work, but not do the simple cost effective measures to protect our lives.