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mxslick,
It has nothing to do with Electrical work.
However, I posted the pic to give a look at how things are done in countries outside of the US.
This is not usual practice in these countries.
I'll be the judge of that, considering the discussion it has caused, I can't really see why I should get rid of it.
If it was offensive that would be another matter, but it isn't.

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I apologise if my remarks on Hindustani Motors 'Ambassadors' were seen as stepping over a line; no offense intended, cultural, racial or religeous.

Alan


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I think this really illustrates a point.

We should be thankful to be in a place where we have safety regulations to protect us.

If these fellows were to refuse to work on this "scaffold", they would probably just be replaced by someone that would, and they'd be out a job.

No worker anywhere on Earth ought to have to work on something like this as a condition of their employment.

Thanx for posting it. I copied it and will show it for comic relief during an OSHA-10 and NFPA 70E class. This one is destined to be a classic.

Reminds me of when I was in Korea in 1970. I was passing a construction site where a 15 story building was being built. For "scaffolding", a bamboo grid was built along one side of the building, tied together with ropes and tied to the building. A bus pulled up and about 50 Koreans got out. I was wondering how they got to the working story. They started climbing up hand over hand until they got to the top. Not too many beer breaks in that place....

I remember reading an article a number of years ago on the use of bamboo as scaffolding.. Apparently it is very common in asia, and that if done properly, it is/was considered as safe or safer than conventional scaffolding, and offers a number of operational advantages over conventional scaffolding.

Bamboo is lightweight, relatively stiff, yet flexible, inexpensive, and readily available. Apparently they are able to attain greater heights using bamboo than with conventional scaffolding, and the bamboo tends to survive storms better than conventional scaffolding.

Bamboo is hollow inside, something like a wooden pipe. Just imagine the use of bamboo conduit!

'ise,
No it isn't, it has small solid sections that fill the inside diameter at each "joint" along its length.
This gives the branches greater strength.

Any other former boy scouts remember building towers and other structures by lashing poles together?

Imagine building scaffolding with nothing more than a truckload of bamboo poles, and some spools of twine or jute. The only tools needed are saws and knives, or maybe just a machate.



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Any other former boy scouts remember building towers and other structures by lashing poles together?

Sure! We used them to test the fall rate of Cub Scouts for our Gravity Merit Badge. Their parents tended to complain about their children being "Bamboozled"

Yep, took us quite awhile before they let us use, "Trustworthy" after that!
Joe