Originally Posted by putteesinmyhands

Priding myself as being a lateral thinker, have you considered suspending it from a tree?

Or a tripod?

Originally Posted by Nobby Sapper

Or a Chinook.

Originally Posted by Mark The Convict

Or a tripod?

I think we're getting there. A Chinook, suspended from sky hooks, with a tripod hanging over the ramp, suspending a tree with an MBC hanging off it... Enough room in the wocca to replen the MBC, just need to know how much fluid ex_stab needs for his colonic...

More seriously, the zip-up stuff I wouldn't trust. If you're taking that weight for any amount of time I'd go with tubular steel and, as someone else said, it needs to be put up by pros, inspected and scaff-tagged. Think insurance if it goes tits-up :(

Brunel will be turning in his grave over some of these comments! I'm fairly sure E_S is a competent DIY'er and is more than capable of tightening a few bolts here and there. Given the right materials he will be able to knock up a structure capable of holding said tank.

He asked how much scaff he would require (Duly answered, not by myself I hasten too add), not how many H & S supervisors need to get involved.

Originally Posted by KJT

Hi ExStab

My old fella is a scaffolder (now estimator) and he suggests the following

Would need a base dimension of a minimum of 1.5m2. A kicker lift at the base lift of 300mm and a lift height of 1.5m high x 4 giving a total platform height of 6.3m. Needs to be butted against a wall/permanent structure.

Equipment required 4 x 6.3m standards (21' tubes); 10 x 1.5m ledgers (tubes); 12 x 1.5m transoms; (tubes); 10 x 2.1m ledger bracing (tubes); 10 x 2.1m sway braces (tubes); if it can be drilled into the wall will need 4 drill ties - if not, use 4 x 6.3m raker tubes; 5 x 1.5m scaffold boards; 40 double couplers; 6 single couplers; 40 swivel couplers; 4 base plates; 4 swivel couplers for the rakers if required.

For second hand tubing, it's approx 70p per foot, fittings approx £1.50 per fitting; boards (new) £4.50 each.

Hope this helps - prices fluctuate all the time, so shop around.

Cheers!

Thankyou! thought we'd get there eventually! There is no permanent structure to tie into but I'd been thinking of triangulated supports to buttress it. One per corner kind of arrangement. At about 30 degrees or so, tied in about halfway up. Any thoughts on that?

ES, can you tell us why you need 1000 litres of water at 7 metres?

Oh. IBCs internally bunded containers. If it is water is doesnt have to be bunded.

Originally Posted by Bollock-chops

ES, can you tell us why you need 1000 litres of water at 7 metres?

Oh. IBCs internally bunded containers. If it is water is doesnt have to be bunded.

It's as a temporary domestic water supply as our landlord and neighbours have failed after TWO FUCKING MONTHS to sort the supply from the spring out. If I can put it up cheaply and only have to pump water up every few days from another IBC in the land rover it will make life a little more tolerable until we can find somewhere else and get moved out. There is no cold water storage cistern in the property so it's about the only way to do it. Pumps would have to have demand valves and I can't see that being very simple to sort out compared with a scaffold. I was originally thinking to design a steel water tower with 150UCs but thought scaffolding might be adequate and cheaper.

Leave the IBC on the landrover, stick a stuart turner 3bar negative head pump somewhere convenient and accessible, it has an internal reed switch which detects water flow, the pump kicks in when it switches.

You basically fit the IBC to the pump, and the pump to your cold water supply pipe, when it detects demand it does its stuff, Im sure you must be able to hire something equivalent.

Alternativly :
1. Tie a long rope to your Landrover, hoy it over your roof and tie the other end to said IBC.
2. Fill Ibc with water, and all piework paraphernalia.
3. Engage Landrover gear and drive back, stopping when IBC reaches roof level.
4. Engage handbrake.
5. Exit Landrover.
6. Fill a bath.

Sorted.

Wot Bollock-chops said. You have the same problem we had. Less tham £300 and an hours work.
Or....I like the christchurch crib solution here:

Originally Posted by EX_STAB

It's as a temporary domestic water supply...

Then you may want to reconsider using a clear container and getting a proper potable water tank. The water will be turning green and toxic within three days otherwise.