It can be set up for unlevel ground, but it's best on level hard surfaces. First I bought 1 section, and then another. They are about 6 feet high, 6 feet long and 30 inches wide. I've had baker scaffold for probably 20 years. Moral of the story, I am no help as you really 'need' to have both! There isn't a lot of maintenance to scaffold and if you have a place to store it properly, it will literally last a lifetime. While man lifts are real nice indoors and are much faster for many things, there are a lot of places a man lift can't get to and things that really can't be done off a man lift outdoors. This 'design' left all of the floor space available for storage of other equipment. Scaffold planks are stickered on the floor under the staging. 24' wide staging, 2-20', 1-24', 1-28' is stored hanging on short lengths of chain on the next wall. Extension and step ladders are stored vertical in the next corner. Sets of ladder jacks are hanging on the wall near them. I keep the scaffold pins in buckets, along with the adjustable feet and wheels in the open areas inside the scaffold. I have the scaffold braces stored vertically in the corner against the platform.

About 6.5' off the floor, above this area, I built a platform for storage of pump jacks and five gallon buckets of roof jacks. I placed one small 8' x 7' overhead door 6' off a the back corner just for access to scaffold storage in that corner. When I built my shop, I made a 18' x 40' lean-to with areas designed in for ladder and scaffold storage. The posters above who said that scaffold requires space to store, they are absolutely right, lots of space. IMO, anyone that owns a building (and works on it) should have enough scaffold to at least build two towers to reach the tallest area of their structure, along with planks and staging available to use.

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