anyone know the scaffoldining weight capacity??

[mikecotterill]

im after the maximum weight steel scaff poles can take. either on a per metre or whatever. basically i want to see how much an 8'2" length of bar can safely take? cheers mike

[sean1212]

hi is it the new or old type of tube as some are weigh more than others

[mikecotterill]

errr don tknow yet, whats the difference? itll be the galved stuff not the old ungalved stuff, other than that dont know. is there much difference, im just after a rough guide

[combined tree services]

if you are using one single pole i can probably work it out for you , how are you going to be weight loading the pole ? ie will it be bridging or ??

[sean1212]

not realy what are you going to use it for ?

[mikecotterill]

ok im making a shelf in my lockup, its gonna be about 6ft tall, 8'2 wide and about 10ft long. so im thinking of 6 legs, 3x10ft lengths and 3x8'2 lengths if that makes sense.but i dont want legs down the middle only around the side, so the spans will be as abhove 10ft and 8'2. hope that makes sense im crap at explaining this sort of thing. cheers mike

[combined tree services]

what will you be hanging / putting on it ? . seeings that the normall spans betwene uprights is normally roughly 8 foot then i should think that a single pole spanning 8"6 you should be able to load roughly 180-200 kg safely

[Billy]

should take anything you'll put in there fine, saws generators etc.

[tommer9]

We used to have two of us with a barrow of mix and about 1/4-1/2 ton of stone and working the stone with lump hammers on standard spadec scaffolding- two tubes under us and uprights about 8-10' apart. It will take pretty much whatever you give it.

[mikecotterill]

sorry forgot too add that, im after putting logs on it. so if its about 200kg per length and there'll be three lengths with boarding over them im looking at about half a ton ish. ok cheers guys. i might have to think about putting legs in the middle to increase it.