MEWP or Climb

[Rod]

i wish someone had the time and pacience to glue them back to gether id love to see it done.

 

coz if you could then we would have some work for you

[Dean Lofthouse]

with the same amount of staff and all the rigging there is NO WAY believe me

 

a five meter strip landing zone with a three meter slope to a six foot drop into the river with nothing alowed in the river and traffic + pedestrians on the other

 

NO WAY

 

the rigging involved would have been emence

 

NO WAY

 

Rod, you may as well go head butt a wall mate, your wasting your time

[bob]

with the same amount of staff and all the rigging there is NO WAY believe me

 

a five meter strip landing zone with a three meter slope to a six foot drop into the river with nothing alowed in the river and traffic + pedestrians on the other

 

NO WAY

 

the rigging involved would have been emence

 

NO WAY

 

so did you cut and chuck or what

why would a climber have to rig it compared to bod in a mewp

[Rod]

so did you cut and chuck or what

why would a climber have to rig it compared to bod in a mewp

 

there would have been all kinds of issues if climbing

 

we did cut and chuck i think three larger sections got lowered of one tree because it was over the river and to big to throw

 

a climber could have done simmilar for a lot of it but we were doing a tree an hour ish and they were over the height of the roof line of three story town flats (with apex roof on top)

 

two people in the mewp

 

the biggest issue would have been not landing or bouncing bits into the river (clients were strict about that)

 

and the same for the herras fence with traffic the other side of it

you would have had to do a good amount of rigging probably 40- 50 %

depending on which tree

 

in the mewp push a lever and your directly above the drop zone

its just faster

 

oh and i only gave two options in the poll because i wanted to know which one people would go for. not if they would do both, cause clearly both have a place

[skyhuck]

cause clearly both have a place

 

IYO.

[Mesterh]

I agree that a mewp can be quicker on certain jobs, be invaluable on others and a necessity on some but I still wouldnt want to have to use one on a daily basis, for a start it would push the day rate right up.

[Rod]

IYO.

 

yes IMO and HSE, NPTC, AFAG, Lantra, Our client, etc:fight:

 

enough said you dont like them

[John Hancock]

 

two people in the mewp

 

Two people in a MEWP rock!!

[Rod]

Two people in a MEWP rock!!

 

dont understand

[John Hancock]

There was a debate a while ago about two people being in a MEWP. We were using two in a basket today and its so much quicker…cut a section, pass it, throw it – cut a section, pass it. Throw it…..and so on.