How far is it safe to lean over from a <b>scaffolding</b> tower?

  Need to do gutter repairs, fascia painting and all that (been here 20
years - 'bout time I did it) and I plan to do it off a hired tower.
Trouble is that the house has bay windows and other obstructions which
stop one getting a tower in close to the wall all the way round.  I
guess the bottom of the tower would be as much as a meter out at those
points.

Is it safe to plan to lean over to get at the gutters?  I will get a
tower with outriggers.

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Henry Law            Manchester, England

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...sorry..couldn't resist!

Regards,

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Stephen Howard - Woodwind repairs & period restorations
http://www.shwoodwind.co.uk
Emails to: showard{who is at}shwoodwindcouk

  Stephen Howard wrote:

Just brilliant :-)

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Dave
The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk
01634 717930
07850 597257

I had a similar(ish) situation with my tower (actually using it as a
cantelever tower crane to lift the casing off a large 100kva
generator) and I tethered the 'likely to lift' side to a very heavy
weight ( a pallet of sash weights weighing over a ton) with a taut
rope.

AWEM

 Andrew Mawson wrote:

If you lean towards the house, that's the way the tower will fall.

And I reckon it WILL.

However there is a perfectly simple way to stop it.

Out a plank across the platform that butts up to the house and screw it
down to the platform You can safely (probably) even walk along it.

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