Heavy Construction Equipment Made Simple

Posted on: 13 November 2017

So you work in construction, and you have recently updated all of your old scaffolding. There is just one problem: you still have all the old scaffolding and not enough room to store it. Sure, you could upgrade your storage, too, but that gets rather expensive every month. What could you do with this old scaffolding, besides sell it or donate it? Here are a few creative uses you might enjoy.

Start a Barbershop Quartet Within Your Company

If you know some of the guys on the crew like to sing, you could start a touring quartet with a construction company theme. The scaffolding works as your backdrop or as your risers and props. The bonuses here are that (A) you get to reuse the old scaffolding, and (B) your four-part harmony quartet can do advertising jingles during their 20- or 30-minute show, which helps you land more customers.

Rent the Scaffolding out for Theatrical Productions

From high school choral groups to community theater, scaffolding can be just the right prop or the best substitute for missing risers. You could offer to rent out the scaffolding to these groups, so long as the scaffolding locks in place and is very strong. It could also work as shelving in stage prop rooms for short-term use, or you could sell it outright to a theater that likes the idea of using scaffolding for prop organization.

Scaffolding as Barriers

Scaffolding works well as a physical barrier to a restricted area. When the wheels are locked in place, the scaffolding cannot be moved, nor can it topple. This is also effective if you are working to restore a cathedral ceiling either in a church or in a residence and you want to detour everyone away from the area. Because you have all of this old scaffolding, it is much cheaper to use as construction barriers than to rent or buy chain link fences and steel posts stuck in buckets of concrete.

Scaffolding as Supports

Scaffolding typically can support the weight of two full-grown men and some supplies. That said, you could use the old scaffolding to support rotting beams in an arched ceiling, and then continue the restoration work on them the rest of the time. Enough scaffolding built lengthwise and applying enough pressure can help a collapsing wall stand upright as well. When you need your new scaffolding for another project, the old scaffolding can be the temporary supports.

For more information on new and old scaffolding equipment, contact a construction equipment supplier or visit websites like http://www.allstareq.com/.