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Ladders and Scaffolds for Fence Contractors Fence work looks like ground work until the top rail goes on. Six and eight foot privacy fences are built from both faces, the outside face usually belongs to a neighbor, and the last two feet of a picket run is the part that hurts people. Privacy Fence Height and the Right Stepladder A six foot privacy fence puts the top rail at six feet and the picket tips at six and a half. That is exactly the height where an ordinary five foot stepladder stops bei …

Tank Access for Brewery and Distillery Crews A brew house is a wet, stainless room with tanks ten to fifteen feet tall, and the work always happens at the top: manway gaskets, CIP arms, sight glasses, pressure relief valves and dry hopping. A stepladder to a manway is the standard shortcut and the standard injury. The Working Platform a Tank Job Needs A Baker and Perry unit is the practical platform in a brewery because it rolls into the space between tanks and adjusts to the height of the manw …

Ladders for Boat Dock and Marina Work A dock is a deck built over water, and everything about ladder choice changes when the ground under the ladder is a floating plank. DFW has more of this work than people expect between Ray Hubbard, Lewisville, Texoma and the smaller lakes north of the city. Why Aluminum at the Lake Steel and cheap plated hardware rust solid in a season on a dock. Aluminum does not, which is why every ladder that lives at the water should be aluminum rather than fiberglass w …

Ladders and Scaffolding for Deck Builders A deck is the one exterior job where the work sits at chest height instead of overhead, and that changes everything about access. Crews still hurt themselves on decks, mostly by reaching sideways off a stepladder with a nail gun in one hand and a board in the other. Deck Height Decides the Tool Most Dallas decks sit between 24 and 36 inches above grade, which sounds like ground work until the rim joist, the band and the railing posts all land at three t …

Guide to Baker Scaffold vs Pump Jacks for Siding These two systems both exist to put a worker in front of a wall, and they solve different problems. Baker scaffold is a compact rolling platform that moves across the ground. Pump jacks are a pair of poles with brackets that ride up and down the wall itself, so the platform goes up rather than sideways. Siding crews ask us which one to buy constantly, and the honest answer depends on three things: how high you are going, how long the run is, and …