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Posted by James Donahue (Member # 3624) on :
 
I'm considering renting a manlift to do a wall job. I might be required to drive two wheels on thier sidewalk to position it. Three questions:

If I lay cheap plywood down, will this prevent black rubber marks?

Years ago, I was involved in concrete work. Sometimes, in order to save money, I saw people "backfill" the forms in the middle with dirt. The edges appeared thick enough, but the middle was thinner. Has anyone ever cracked concrete by driving on it? Would boards or two sheets of plywood distribute the weight better?
 

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Posted by Si Allen (Member # 420) on :
 
Masonite or plywood will prevent black tire marks, and will also help distribute the weight, so as to prevent cracking the sidewalk.

Plywood is also recomended if you will be going over grass or dirt.

 

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Posted by Doug Allan (Member # 2247) on :
 
coroplast will also prevent tire marks.

A signed "waiver" will prevent liability on cracked concrete (no concrete work should give way to a sizzorlift... if it does, it's not your fault) Just add bricks &/or boards to ramp up over the curb
 

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Posted by Gary Hove (Member # 4970) on :
 
Si Allen is right,
I have a lift with the smaller concrete wheels. I do a pile of work in and around school gyms and on sidewalks, and I use plywood. It does not move around and will distribute the weight very well. I do not think I had a job where I didn't have to drive the lift over dirt or grass at some piont.
 

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Posted by David Wright (Member # 111) on :
 
We just did some work in a school gym and pool area where we used plywood for damage control and also no marks.
Too bad I drove it into the ceramic wall.
 

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Posted by Sheila Ferrell (Member # 3741) on :
 
ANOTHER excellent use for coro!!

WTG, Doug!

(lol . . .I'm sorry y'all...could'nt resist )
 

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Posted by Doug Allan (Member # 2247) on :
 
when I worked on a huge sign installation project at the $3 million expansion for the Intel plant in New Mexico, they had hundereds of sheets of coro covering all the floors & the lower half of the walls in the completed corridors still in use by contractors for access to the incomplete construction areas. I never saw so much coro before or since. cheaper to buy, less labor to handle & just as re-usable. (not much help redistributing weight though)
 

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Posted by Sheila Ferrell (Member # 3741) on :
 
I often drive my truck up on sidewalks and etc' to work off of it and I have never cracked any concrete or left any skid marks ...(not accidental ones anyway . . . )

I think my truck is heavier than a scissor or snorkel lift . . .

I've seen guys hit cement with heavy duty jack-hammers and it did'nt even 'crack' that much...just broke out in chunks . . .I've never seen any concrete less than 4" thick come out of a sidewalk, and I've never seen any without wire stickin' out of the chunks . . .I don't know where y'all did them 'cheap' concrete jobs at . . .(lol)

Very unlikely, but unless the cement has zero reinforcement I can't imagine a little ol' lift crackin' it . . .

(As per my redneck-hillbilly heritage, I often collect concrete chunks to stack around flower borders and stuff...hence my experience with 'used' concrete . .
Don'cha think it looks better than 1/2 buried tires painted white?? )

[ January 04, 2005, 10:22 AM: Message edited by: Sheila Ferrell ]
 

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Posted by Jimmy Goines (Member # 5323) on :
 
Hey Sheila....good landscaping rocks are also hard to come by in my Georgia low country....
and snitchin' dem good granite rocks from underneath bridges can also be risky (as per My hillbilly-redneck heritage also)....

Let's not forget tires turned inside out into flower pots and painted white...
I'd rather be caught with snitched bridge rocks in my yard.
 

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Posted by James Donahue (Member # 3624) on :
 
MURPHY...

lurks...

like a shadow, waiting...


 

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Posted by Sheila Ferrell (Member # 3741) on :
 
Jimmy!!!


<<<<JAMES>>>> (Hmmmm....There ain't really a "Uh-oh" gremlin face. . .)
But anyway, I know . . . and when it happens??

I plan to sue everyone involved in such a dangerous situation for me to work in!! . . .The store owner all the way back to the contractor who installed the faulty surface . . .hope it won't be y'all....
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(I AM kiddin' . . . )
 

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