Scaffold & Hod Hoist
Build, erect, and dismantle Sidewalk Bridges, Scaffolds, Overhead and associated protection, Platforms, Decks, Staging, Shanties, etc.
Hoist specialists erect, install, remove, and place building material hoists, rack and pinion gear and personnel hoists, bucket hoisting equipment including Hoppers, Panel Towers, Chicago Booms, Concrete Mixers, Lumber Hoists, and Collar Clamps.
From an issue of The Carpenter,
They erect and maintain the material and personnel hoists on new construction in Manhattan and the outer boroughs. They also have worked on high profile scaffolding jobs such as the Statue of Liberty in 1986 and more recently the Washington Monument in our nations capital. Their jobs are dangerous as they sometimes work 50 to 60 stories in the air under difficult weather conditions.The Carpenter stopped at Columbus Circle to visit the future site of the Time Warner AOL building, where the Hod Hoist Carpenters are currently working. The AOL/Time Warner site is the first site to use a new hoist system in the United States. Jeff Keeley, 20-year member and supervisor, has created a new system scaffold that he believes will create a safer environment for workers. The new system uses round pegs to secure instead of the old way. Keeley told the Carpenter that he had been working on a jobsite in England with a crew of hoist carpenters, at Canary Wharf. “I go back and forth to job sites in England, as does many members in 1536. They are more easygoing on the sites in England and I was able to have a staging area with a crane available that allowed me to experiment with the rack and pinioning hoist…to tell you the truth it (the idea) came to me in a dream.”
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