Tools and PPE

This tool is used when building scaffolding for

• Used for cutting warning tape

• Used for tightening bolts

• Cutting, bending, and twisting tie- wire

• Used for leveling scaffold

This tool is used to

• Hammer scaffold components that do not fit properly

• To cut electrical tape

• Hammer nails in base plates and screw jacks

• To remove annoying windows

This tool has a magnetic strip and is used to

• Level and plumb taglines

• Level and plumb mudsills

• Level and plumb cross braces

• Level and plumb scaffolding

Scaffold Ratchets are used when building scaffold to

• Only tighten clamps on tube and clamp scaffolding

• Hammer 16 penny nails in mudsills

• Tighten bolts, hook on ladders, and light hammering

• Tighten bolts on equipment engines

Polypropylene rope

• Floats in water, 1.5 times stronger than manilla rope, flexible

• Loses strength in cold weather

• does not float in water, 1.5 times weaker than manilla, inflexible

• Shrinks when wet

If you do not have a scaffold ratchet, you can buy a

• Heavy Duty 1/2 inch drive ratchet with a regular socket

• Heavy Duty 3/4 inch drive ratchet with a deep well socket

• Heavy Duty 1/2 inch drive ratchet with a deep well socket

• Heavy Duty 1/2 inch drive ratchet

Using safety glasses to protect your eyes when building scaffold can protect you from

• Slivers of metal that can fly off scaffolding and cause eye injuries

• Mortar/concrete splashing in your eyes

• Flying objects from grinding and jackhammering scaffold components

• Ultraviolet rays from the sun

Ear plugs should be used when

• Working near power lines

• Working at high heights

• Working in underground situations

• Working in tanks, with systems scaffold, and when working near heavy machinery

The Personal protective equipment needed

during scaffold building includes

• Hard hat, earplugs, leather gloves, steel toe boots

• Hard hat, earplugs, safety glasses, leather gloves

• Hard hat, earplugs, safety glasses, leather gloves, long sleeved shirt, steel toe boots, harness

• Leather gloves, hard hat, earplugs

According to your book, the scaffold hitch is used to

• Fasten around a post or a pipe

• Used to pull at right angles to the pole or tube

• Raise planks to the ground or higher levels

• Lower planks safely to the ground or lower levels