What a great tool. Rather than buying the steel you need, brand new, in many caes, recycled or scarp steel is every bit as good, even a lot cheaper. I have a pile of cold drawn tubing, hot rolled angle iron, cold rolled rounds and flats in my barn that was free or almost free.
Looks good Andrew. I have a basket like that I made. Add your box blade to the back and drop it when up. That stabilizes it a little more. Looking good Buddy...
You should fab up some type hooks for the extension ladder so it can just hook on and you could rome around with the ladder attached so you don't have to carry it every where !
I'm just at thinking now, to help the hydraulics with the weight in the air, you can put something underneath that foot, then it spare the hydraulic. I stand amazed how God has blessed you to work out all these things. This is so wonderful to watch
On the scaffolding, trying to get on and off the railing ladder, instead of stepping from the floor of the scaffolding over two ladder bars, try this Stand with the exit to your right. Holding railing firmly, with your left foot, cross it over your right foot, and place it on the first rail up and leave it at a 45 degree angle...knee bent Then simply straighten knee and lift your right leg over the top bar and place it on the lower rail again at a 45 degree angle, then lift your left leg over the rail and place it beside the right leg, then you can climb down. Yes its awkward to do, but a bit of practice you will get the hang of it, and it stops trying to get over two bars of the ladder in one go. Love the channel and the content. The house is looking amazing. From Jack and Family from Brisbane Queensland Australia
Just an idea I have looked at 19ft scissor lifts for sale. They were actually reasonable to buy. They would be for indoor use. You could sell it at the end of the project. It is really a lot easier to work off of. At the end of the day would not be a fall hazard climbing out. It would not be a bad idea to buy some fall protection. Just being able to move freely and extend the platform in some cases. Even on lifts we seem to get crowded with tools at times. I am sure you will find plenty of other uses for it.
Cut the scaffold wood platform across about 2 feet from end. Put piano or heavy hinges on so you can walk up inside platform. Don’t remember the brand, but worked on set with the hinged floor and it was WAY more comfortable to climb up and down. Reinforce the wood a little, cut a hand hole to lift up from inside, and then you have an internal ladder.
Great review and add on ideas. Now get that house done and sell that scaffolding because after the age 40 something weird happens. Heights are different. I used to hunt 25-30 feet in a climbing tree stand. Now, 15 to 18 max.
Make sore the latter is secured so it won't fall, ha, ha. Makes me feel better for you and your safety. God bless stay safe and don't work to hard Grammy from Jay Ok
Very helpful videos! If you're not completely collapsing the scaffolding a lot, wouldn't replacing the quick pins with some bolts tighten everything up a bit?
nice except the ties get something stronger lol no high dives your doing an awesome job ,come home from work every day catch your video before dinner hit the shower then done for the night .thanks for sharing your work vary enjoyable
I work for a John Deere dealer (for 21 years so far) and my only suggestion would be cylinder stops. You could easily make your own by zip tying a piece of angle iron to the cylinder ram when it’s in place. Then if an oring blows, line burst, etc, you down come down faster than you’d like to! Lol
Sweet! If it were me I would just cut that top bar out on one side so it’s a smaller step to get in and out. With the rails and all that up there it should be more than strong enough, you would lose one level as far as how high you can raise it but it would be easier to get in and out of.
What if you could add a piano hinge to the floor about two feet in from the end? This trap door would allow you access to the ladder from inside the scaffold.
That's a thought, but this is my friends basket so I don't want to modify it too much. I am definitely building me my own in the near future. I have a lot of ideas, thanks
Andrew buddy you did a good job and whatever you do your house is looking good Keep Calm with the videos keep coming with the videos text me back buddy God bless your family
Ok, first off Andrew you need a small 10’ rope tied to the top rung of your ladder so you don’t get stranded aloft again. It’s great to tie off to a rafter for safety when working from the ladder as well so it doesn’t shift while you’re up high too!. I worked on poles and ladders my whole career for the phone company.
The first thing I did was make sure I could climb down the tractor loader or the ladder on the front of the basket should my extension ladder fall. I can easily do both.
Once I was installing a phone line for Garth Brooks in Nashville (never heard of him then) and I had been throwing a tennis ball with a black lab dog until the ball got too slobbery and I had to string an aerial wire. All of a sudden my ladder started shaking like mad (it was tied off to the pole at the top and middle) & when I looked down, I saw the dog was already 4’ up the ladder and climbing higher! I told that story to Trisha Yearwood later on when I worked on her phone in my home town, when she was singing with Garth (and dating him) and she told me the dog had passed. Yes, I worked on lots of music stars phones in my job. Just make sure an armadillo can’t knock your ladder down while you’re up!
Andrew the lift basket looks handy, I'd suggest two u brackets the length of your tractor lift pistons, can't think of a better description, if your hydraulics on your lift fails for some reason this would keep the lift from dropping. I hope you know what I'm suggesting kinda hard to describe!
I like your new toy man. You are right you got to jump on those good deal like that. My job has one. Every time I get up on the top I keep thinking I'm going to get stranded up there. " LOL " Andrew can you please do me a favor and tell Tiffany I said happy birthday to her. I tried to mention it on the live stream last night but I don't know if it went through since my phone kept cutting off on me. I just feel bad for not mentioning it again last night I saw the picture you took. I take it easy man to be safe out there.
Now you can get twice as much done in a day! Just kidding I know you work really hard and these things should help you and keep you safer! We don’t want anymore ladder incidents!
That’s pretty awesome. I need to make one for myself, I think I’m just gonna get a shopping cart and weld it to the top of a table. Lol Kind of like a lazy man’s hunting blind also, you could just drive up to the edge of the woods and jump up in there for the day.
hey Andrew, cut that top bar off the top scaffold where you get onto the platform. it should not change stability as long as you keep the railing in place. Should make getting on and off the platform safer.
Me again Andrew. It’s to late now but when buying the scaffolding they have a version that has a hinged floor so the half the floor can opt to climb up and then close to stand on it. At this point just as info.
Safety first, get and use a safety harness. I’d also suggest that you tie the ladder to the basket cuz if you wind up stuck on that platform with the ladder on the ground you will never live it down.
I think if I was to build one I would put the ladder on one end or the other so that you could get closer to your work. You could also make it like the old fire escape and the ladder telescope down so that maybe you wouldn't need an extra ladder to get on and off.
Garden is doing great, a video out soon on it. I usually tend to the garden late afternoons after everything is put up from working on the house. It's a full time job and I love it!
Andrew, awesome progress. I am curious about what hurricane rating your roof wall and post attachments are designed for? Here in Australia the build code ratings are formalized and depend on how far into the hurricane (cyclone) zone the building is.
Yeah I know you won't find me climbing up that. Also you better tie a rope to that ladder for the bucket basket before the armadillos drop the ladder that would be a hard one to explain. 👍👍
Atta Boy #1- Taking your safety seriously!!! I watched a man fall off the 6th rung of an 8 ft. step ladder... that's ONLY a 6 foot fall. The concrete floor his head hit ended his life! Warning #1- Keep the John Deere work basket away from overhead power line(s)!!! Warning #2- Ensure you tie the top of your extension ladder to the basket. If that ladder falls away you'll have the same problem getting down as you did when you got stuck on the house roof! haha
@@TKCL That's so much better than using ladder to get down to the ground... NOT!!! Sure... shortcuts work.... Right up until they DON'T!!! I'd like to see the John Deere Owner's Manual that approves THAT dismount!!!
Hi Andrew, I have been looking for your video. You are THE ONLY youtuber who has a video on a diy Scaffold to use specifally on a Tractor! I have the JD 1025R & a metal building that is 23' high in center & about 18' high on the edges. My 1025R can only lift my forks 5' high & the opening to my metal doors are only 12'. So I want to build one 11'6" tall so that it will clear as I take it outside my bldg. & am storing back inside. If I connect my box blade in the rear, do u think it will be safe for me to use one 11"6" high + the 5' my tractor can lift? Have you built yours? What is the height on it?
I borrowed this one, but will be building my own this winter. I have a lot ideas for the next one. I'd be very careful if I were you with that height. Don't go very wide in the platform and keep good ballast on the back of the tractor. That's a very narrow tractor and I'd be very concerned with tipping over. My recommendation would be to NOT do it. Hope this helps
Lol. I’ve been waiting for 15 years for steel to drop, I think that’s a myth. Go to garage sales or talk to people who do go to garage sales and buy every metal bed frame you can, that’s a ton of angle iron and find scrap yards, you can get fencing and posts and pieces of metal of all kinds, you’d be surprised what people throw away. Also look at old mobile home trailers, a lot of times you can get those for free and they have a ton of steel on them. You can look at craigslist and places selling used stuff and get all kinds of stuff. Another great source is to find companies going out of business and a lot of times they will have shelving and scaffolding and stuff that they leave behind and just let people come and take it for free or sell it off for cheap. Railroad ties you can get as well but the old compress steel it’s too hard to cut and you’ll spend more money cutting it then you would buy a new steel. Lol. Demo companies have stuff like that all the time. You’ll have to clean stuff up and it might not be exactly what you need for pretty stuff but for building farm equipment and racks it’s fine.
@@TKCL Yup. Once I got my welder I was grabbing everything I could and just welding it together for the practice. Then you start doing projects and you realize how expensive all this stuff is. Especially when you’re doing four-wheel-drive stuff and buying all that DOM tubing. Ugh.
And you can use it as a portable hunting blind!
I was already thinking that lol
That tractor set up is pretty clever...
I like it!
You need your safety harness to tie off. It never hurts to be to careful. I know Tiffany would appreciate that.
Actually Mr Rodney above sent me one. A very nice thought!
What a great tool. Rather than buying the steel you need, brand new, in many caes, recycled or scarp steel is every bit as good, even a lot cheaper. I have a pile of cold drawn tubing, hot rolled angle iron, cold rolled rounds and flats in my barn that was free or almost free.
I am in the middle of nowhere, I need to locate a scrap yard that will sell it.
Looks good Andrew. I have a basket like that I made. Add your box blade to the back and drop it when up. That stabilizes it a little more. Looking good Buddy...
Thank you
Glad you have the scaffold. It will make your job so much easier.
Yes it does
Now that’s safe ,nice
I like it
Gotta admire American home grown ingenuity!
Amen!
Andrew I’m starting to see a lot of your old videos popping up on the feed on TH-cam . I think the channel is fixing to hit the next level . 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
That would be awesome!
You made that look like a nice simple and easy mod to make yourself a very useful attachment.
It was too difficult to change and it will sure help me out.
You should fab up some type hooks for the extension ladder so it can just hook on and you could rome around with the ladder attached so you don't have to carry it every where !
Good to see you are using wisdom for this. The wise man built his house on rocks... just like you.
looking good john
Thanks
You are great at solving problems
Thank you, I try
I'm just at thinking now, to help the hydraulics with the weight in the air, you can put something underneath that foot, then it spare the hydraulic. I stand amazed how God has blessed you to work out all these things. This is so wonderful to watch
That's a thought, thank you for watching
On the scaffolding, trying to get on and off the railing ladder, instead of stepping from the floor of the scaffolding over two ladder bars, try this
Stand with the exit to your right. Holding railing firmly, with your left foot, cross it over your right foot, and place it on the first rail up and leave it at a 45 degree angle...knee bent
Then simply straighten knee and lift your right leg over the top bar and place it on the lower rail again at a 45 degree angle, then lift your left leg over the rail and place it beside the right leg, then you can climb down.
Yes its awkward to do, but a bit of practice you will get the hang of it, and it stops trying to get over two bars of the ladder in one go. Love the channel and the content. The house is looking amazing. From Jack and Family from Brisbane Queensland Australia
Thank you for the tip
Just an idea I have looked at 19ft scissor lifts for sale. They were actually reasonable to buy. They would be for indoor use. You could sell it at the end of the project. It is really a lot easier to work off of. At the end of the day would not be a fall hazard climbing out. It would not be a bad idea to buy some fall protection. Just being able to move freely and extend the platform in some cases. Even on lifts we seem to get crowded with tools at times. I am sure you will find plenty of other uses for it.
If I see a good deal I'll consider it
Nice tractor basket!
Thank you
A hose Clamp would make those top rails super stable.
Great point!
These upgrades are making us breathe alot easier. The tractor basket is heaven sent. Very nice safety upgrades. Take care and God bless.
It's definitely safer, thanks for watching! God bless
You need to tie that ladder up.
You dont want a opossum to knock it down. Lol.
Lol
No need for leg day at the gym now🤣🤣 looking fantastic!!!
No kidding!
Way to go!!!👍👍👍👍👍👍
Very nice, besides a deer hunting blind it would be good for tree trimming work too!
I agree with both things you mentioned!
Very nice
Cut the scaffold wood platform across about 2 feet from end. Put piano or heavy hinges on so you can walk up inside platform. Don’t remember the brand, but worked on set with the hinged floor and it was WAY more comfortable to climb up and down. Reinforce the wood a little, cut a hand hole to lift up from inside, and then you have an internal ladder.
I've seen scaffolding like that
Andrew love the build so far! But I love all the tools & tool reviews you do! I’m a tool guy have more tools than I need!
Awesome, glad to hear that
Stacy, is that really possible?
@@kennethspengler9934 I guess not lol
That tractor bucket is really going to help you out on the outside of the house
Great review and add on ideas. Now get that house done and sell that scaffolding because after the age 40 something weird happens. Heights are different. I used to hunt 25-30 feet in a climbing tree stand. Now, 15 to 18 max.
I understand that, I no longer use my climber and go to the tops of trees either. Not as young and bulletproof anymore.
Make sore the latter is secured so it won't fall, ha, ha. Makes me feel better for you and your safety. God bless stay safe and don't work to hard Grammy from Jay Ok
No kidding lol! Take care and God bless
Ha Andrew. Love ur new lift should make work lighter and more effectively
Yes it will!
Better safe than sorry on those welds
Absolutely!
Very helpful videos! If you're not completely collapsing the scaffolding a lot, wouldn't replacing the quick pins with some bolts tighten everything up a bit?
Yes, but I do break it down often.
Hi, Andrew! What a timesaver! By the time your house is built you will have buns and legs of steel from the climbing.
Lol I'm already feeling it!
nice except the ties get something stronger lol no high dives your doing an awesome job ,come home from work every day catch your video before dinner hit the shower then done for the night .thanks for sharing your work vary enjoyable
Thank you for watching
I work for a John Deere dealer (for 21 years so far) and my only suggestion would be cylinder stops. You could easily make your own by zip tying a piece of angle iron to the cylinder ram when it’s in place. Then if an oring blows, line burst, etc, you down come down faster than you’d like to! Lol
Thank you for the tip
I thought John Deere would have made better equipment than that? I'd be concerned if it was a Chinese tractor but a John Deere product?
Sweet! If it were me I would just cut that top bar out on one side so it’s a smaller step to get in and out. With the rails and all that up there it should be more than strong enough, you would lose one level as far as how high you can raise it but it would be easier to get in and out of.
I got the old Lincoln 225 transformer powered welder I luv that buzz box 📦 or tombstone welder its a bad cat
They last forever
What if you could add a piano hinge to the floor about two feet in from the end? This trap door would allow you access to the ladder from inside the scaffold.
That's a thought, but this is my friends basket so I don't want to modify it too much. I am definitely building me my own in the near future. I have a lot of ideas, thanks
Andrew buddy you did a good job and whatever you do your house is looking good Keep Calm with the videos keep coming with the videos text me back buddy God bless your family
Thank you Ralph! God bless
Ok, first off Andrew you need a small 10’ rope tied to the top rung of your ladder so you don’t get stranded aloft again. It’s great to tie off to a rafter for safety when working from the ladder as well so it doesn’t shift while you’re up high too!. I worked on poles and ladders my whole career for the phone company.
The first thing I did was make sure I could climb down the tractor loader or the ladder on the front of the basket should my extension ladder fall. I can easily do both.
Once I was installing a phone line for Garth Brooks in Nashville (never heard of him then) and I had been throwing a tennis ball with a black lab dog until the ball got too slobbery and I had to string an aerial wire. All of a sudden my ladder started shaking like mad (it was tied off to the pole at the top and middle) & when I looked down, I saw the dog was already 4’ up the ladder and climbing higher! I told that story to Trisha Yearwood later on when I worked on her phone in my home town, when she was singing with Garth (and dating him) and she told me the dog had passed. Yes, I worked on lots of music stars phones in my job. Just make sure an armadillo can’t knock your ladder down while you’re up!
Wow awesome, you met some superstars!
He doesn't need a safety harness as long as he got those zip ties, those things are a life saver. 😆 Keep up the good work. 👍
Andrew the lift basket looks handy, I'd suggest two u brackets the length of your tractor lift pistons, can't think of a better description, if your hydraulics on your lift fails for some reason this would keep the lift from dropping. I hope you know what I'm suggesting kinda hard to describe!
I understand, thanks
I like your new toy man. You are right you got to jump on those good deal like that. My job has one. Every time I get up on the top I keep thinking I'm going to get stranded up there. " LOL " Andrew can you please do me a favor and tell Tiffany I said happy birthday to her. I tried to mention it on the live stream last night but I don't know if it went through since my phone kept cutting off on me. I just feel bad for not mentioning it again last night I saw the picture you took. I take it easy man to be safe out there.
No worries, I'll let her know. Thanks
i have been 40 ft high on scaffolding like that sandblasting and i know the railing helped me feel safer
Oh wow, there is no way I'd go that high 😳
John Deere Quick Attach scaffold!
In a nut shell, it's pretty slick!
Andrew maybe u could used a bar in the middle and take a bit of strain off the hydraulic. Maybe the scaffolding u used inside
Thank You for the recondition last night I now have 31 subscribers.
Keep at it!
Now you can get twice as much done in a day! Just kidding I know you work really hard and these things should help you and keep you safer! We don’t want anymore ladder incidents!
Lol tell me about it
Nice work platform. If it was me, I would leave the tractor running so the hydraulics don't slip.
I've never seen my loader bleed down, at the moment I trust it.
That's not needed..
That’s pretty awesome. I need to make one for myself, I think I’m just gonna get a shopping cart and weld it to the top of a table. Lol
Kind of like a lazy man’s hunting blind also, you could just drive up to the edge of the woods and jump up in there for the day.
Already been thinking about that lol
hey Andrew, cut that top bar off the top scaffold where you get onto the platform. it should not change stability as long as you keep the railing in place. Should make getting on and off the platform safer.
Another speed bump. Oh shoot. But as always, Andrew you have overcome with talent and finesse.
Thank you
Me again Andrew. It’s to late now but when buying the scaffolding they have a version that has a hinged floor so the half the floor can opt to climb up and then close to stand on it. At this point just as info.
Yep I've seen that style. Thanks
Safety first, get and use a safety harness. I’d also suggest that you tie the ladder to the basket cuz if you wind up stuck on that platform with the ladder on the ground you will never live it down.
I've already made sure I can climb down without the ladder lol
I think if I was to build one I would put the ladder on one end or the other so that you could get closer to your work. You could also make it like the old fire escape and the ladder telescope down so that maybe you wouldn't need an extra ladder to get on and off.
I agree
Can’t wait to see the completed project. Beautiful property. Where are you located?
Thank you! We are in north central Florida
You could make the same thing out of aluminum which would reduce the weight significantly and still be strong and safe enough to use for scaffolding.
A Jack of all trades. Great video but have a question how is your garden doing? And when do you have the time for it?
Garden is doing great, a video out soon on it. I usually tend to the garden late afternoons after everything is put up from working on the house. It's a full time job and I love it!
Do you have the Amazon links for what you ordered for the scaffolding?
I bought the scaffolding from harbor freight
Nice! What model Hobart did you get? I've got an eye on the 210 MVP...
That's the one, you won't regret it. Has plenty of power!
Definitely put hooks for tools to keep away from your feet
Can that scaffolding be used on the exterior of the building on grass for installing siding?
No, it needs a perfectly smooth surface.
That scaffolding still scares me. Lol
Lol it definitely takes some getting used to
I like that tractor basket, anyway you could give the dimensions ?
I'll try to get those soon
@@TKCL Thank you sir
Andrew, awesome progress. I am curious about what hurricane rating your roof wall and post attachments are designed for? Here in Australia the build code ratings are formalized and depend on how far into the hurricane (cyclone) zone the building is.
Same here, we have zones. I am built for zone 2, 120 mph.
Yeah I know you won't find me climbing up that. Also you better tie a rope to that ladder for the bucket basket before the armadillos drop the ladder that would be a hard one to explain. 👍👍
Lol I've already checked, I can get down without the ladder 😁
@@TKCL you need to take your gun with you up there so when you see those armadillos walking up you can get them before they get you lol 😆😆
My sniper perch
Atta Boy #1- Taking your safety seriously!!! I watched a man fall off the 6th rung of an 8 ft. step ladder... that's ONLY a 6 foot fall. The concrete floor his head hit ended his life!
Warning #1- Keep the John Deere work basket away from overhead power line(s)!!!
Warning #2- Ensure you tie the top of your extension ladder to the basket. If that ladder falls away you'll have the same problem getting down as you did when you got stuck on the house roof! haha
Actually I can climb down the back or front of the basket should the ladder fall. I've already tested it 😁
@@TKCL That's so much better than using ladder to get down to the ground... NOT!!! Sure... shortcuts work.... Right up until they DON'T!!! I'd like to see the John Deere Owner's Manual that approves THAT dismount!!!
Well your not going to find that in the manual
Since you have the door cut off the side railings
Oh no, I'll be changing the deck height at some point and need to keep all adjustment
Hi Andrew,
I have been looking for your video. You are THE ONLY youtuber who has a video on a diy Scaffold to use specifally on a Tractor!
I have the JD 1025R & a metal building that is 23' high in center & about 18' high on the edges. My 1025R can only lift my forks 5' high & the opening to my metal doors are only 12'. So I want to build one 11'6" tall so that it will clear as I take it outside my bldg. & am storing back inside. If I connect my box blade in the rear, do u think it will be safe for me to use one 11"6" high + the 5' my tractor can lift? Have you built yours? What is the height on it?
I borrowed this one, but will be building my own this winter. I have a lot ideas for the next one. I'd be very careful if I were you with that height. Don't go very wide in the platform and keep good ballast on the back of the tractor. That's a very narrow tractor and I'd be very concerned with tipping over. My recommendation would be to NOT do it. Hope this helps
@@TKCL Ok, I will take ur advice then. Darn it, I am back to square 1 on getting up on that roof!
Lol. I’ve been waiting for 15 years for steel to drop, I think that’s a myth. Go to garage sales or talk to people who do go to garage sales and buy every metal bed frame you can, that’s a ton of angle iron and find scrap yards, you can get fencing and posts and pieces of metal of all kinds, you’d be surprised what people throw away. Also look at old mobile home trailers, a lot of times you can get those for free and they have a ton of steel on them. You can look at craigslist and places selling used stuff and get all kinds of stuff. Another great source is to find companies going out of business and a lot of times they will have shelving and scaffolding and stuff that they leave behind and just let people come and take it for free or sell it off for cheap. Railroad ties you can get as well but the old compress steel it’s too hard to cut and you’ll spend more money cutting it then you would buy a new steel. Lol. Demo companies have stuff like that all the time. You’ll have to clean stuff up and it might not be exactly what you need for pretty stuff but for building farm equipment and racks it’s fine.
All very good tips for finding some steel, I wish I had a ton of it laying around for projects.
@@TKCL Yup. Once I got my welder I was grabbing everything I could and just welding it together for the practice. Then you start doing projects and you realize how expensive all this stuff is. Especially when you’re doing four-wheel-drive stuff and buying all that DOM tubing. Ugh.
Welding in shorts 🙄 and I was waiting for the ladder to slip off the basket 😬
Awww come on, you ain't tough until you weld in shorts..... And flip flops 😁
Shoooeeee,,,,,,,,,I do NOT like HEIGHTS!!!!!! Be careful young man!!!!
Luckily they don't bother me too much
Andrew I sent ya message on FB oboist something I am trying to send ya from Amazon.
I'll check it out
Looks sketchy
Naaa