I have been a scaffolder for the better part of my life. I would love to work with Bamboo. Seems a lot lighter and easier to handle than the steel tubes we have to juggle with.
I have seen many bamboo scaffolders climbing without any safety. Is it normal for them to climb 7 floors. Man the way they do it so effortlessly, it was unbelievable at first when I saw it.
It is a very very common scenery in Hong Kong. Nothing so astonishing about ; in old days they use bamboo strips to tide and built the bamboo scaffold and one or two decades ago they changed to nylon strips which have been a great improvement. The truth is it really works and has been here ( Hong Kong ) for a very long long time.
l have worked as a bamboo scaffolder(dismantling only) for more than a year.We used a single lanyard safety harness around our waist like the way we wear belt and earned HK $450/day back in 1999 with free lunch and free Yum chha.Good old memories.
@roshan That seems like a great work experience, may i know which company did you work for and where was the construction project? Im applying for construction jobs myself :)
How many people do these nonprofessionals kill a year , because of human error , or equipment malfunction ? Hundreds? Thousands?!? Hundreds of thousands?
I have seen many bamboo scaffolders climbing without any safety. Is it normal for them to climb 7 floors. Man the way they do it so effortlessly, it was unbelievable at first when I saw it. Super human ability
We always have plenty of the stuff here in hawaii. Never really thought much of it as far as using it to make load bearing stuff until the day I saw some nalo dudes make and use a boom derrick with the stuff to get boulders out of a creek. That shit was WILD
In Sri Lanka it is also used. Fear not, bamboo is extremely strong against parallel forces. if used quality bamboos, it will not fail because of bamboos but because of Nylon strings
Did you do a metallurgical test on some samples taken from the site? Or are you just commenting on what you saw on TV? You do know that it comes RED from the fabrication shop yeah? That is not rust.
WoW you would have to REALLY trust the workers before you who came and put together steel or bamboo scaffolding especially when 10-20 feet in the air would be dangerous enough, but going to be 100's of feet up where there's no forgiveness if a domino effect got started from just a few improperly tied sections of bamboo.
"Whilst also keeping its spidermen safe .... " . Wtf. No harness 300 feet up, lashing sticks together with shopping bags isnt, nor has it ever been, safe.
The video was quite long ago and now there is law that force all scaffold worker to wear 'safety belt' (sorry I don't know the exact wording in English) in Hong Kong Employer and the worker who don't follow the safety guidelines may be fined by the Government
la que vale es las estadisticas de accidentes. lo que si es curioso es que a veces leo que no hay bambu para los osos panda, pero por lo que veo usan el bambu a lo loco, asi que deberian tener campos para cultivarlo...
If I move to Asia , it will be to work with bamboo . I am 50/50 on the people . Worst human rights in the world . Good food . Some of the worst environmental abusers . Worst human traffickers . Shitty employers . Fuck it .I changed my mind . I will just buy some bamboo on EBAY and order from Sushi And Thai Restaurant .
