Hire & Sale 

About Hire & Sale
Eigertower
Limpet
 Fall Arrest System

About Hire & Sale

Extensive stocks of materials are maintained including conventional tube, fittings and boards, system scaffolding, a huge fleet of aluminium towers and an impressive range of ladders, steps and staging, steel trestles, chutes, tarpaulins, brick guards and ancillaries. 

Conveniently situated at Lawson Industrial Estate, Middlesborough, York and Richmond, Swale Scaffolding's Hire and Sales Division is set up to provide the best possible service to their customers, both large and small, whether they are collecting or requiring delivery. 

The 'customer collect' system ensures that drivers are waiting the shortest possible time and if materials are pre ordered, turn around is achieved in minutes, within a friendly, easy-to-deal-with environment!

All materials are sourced from leading manufacturers and suppliers and strict quality standards are applied to ensure reliability, durability and, of course, safety.

 

The management and sales team has the skill and experience to carry out detailed site surveys, recommend and quote for the best products for particular applications to ensure that work is carried out quickly, safely and economically. 

A proven system is in place to provide straight forward, easily understood administration with equal priority given to off hires and collection - all designed to reduce errors and queries to the absolute minimum.

Whether the project is a simple house front or a long-term petro-chemical maintenance contract, Swale Scaffolding has expertise, materials, and capability to deliver the best possible service efficiently, economically and within specified time limits. 

Backed up by their specialist services, the management team at Swale Scaffolding offer a detailed design, planning and cost control facility for major projects. 

The company is acutely aware that the success of major projects depends heavily on detailed pre start planning and look to early involvement with the customer's project/design team to achieve sound working relationships, efficient contract progression and effective cost control. 

The same standards of care and attention to detail are applied to the company's Labour Only Services, with planning and control systems in place to ensure the customer meets his own targets financially and within his planning schedule. 
Swale Scaffolding appreciates the requirement for competence and safety in the individual environment. 


Eigertower

With 20 years experience in the access market, the Eigertower Aluminium Tower has proved itself as one of the most versatile systems on the market today. It's ease of erection coupled with a minimal components list ensures the users assembly time is short, enabling them to get on with the job quickly. The Eigertower's speed of erection and ease of use are key reasons why so many users favour this system.

Manufactured to BS1139 Part 3 (HD 1004). All equipment produced under BS5750 Part 2 ISO 9002 Quality Assurance System. Conforms to Construction, Health and Safety and Welfare Regulations 1996.

Eigertower - Features 

  • All equipment is manufactured under BS5750 Part 2 quality assurance system. 

  • The grade of aluminum used is 6082T6, the highest grade available for the structural use of aluminum. 

  • All the tube used in fabrication is extruded and not rolled or seamed. 

  • All welders are tested to BS48722 Part 2 standard. 

  • Any frame can be used as a base frame. 

  • A floating spigot is used for frame connection. 

  • Anti-slip surface on all frame rungs. 

  • All roll threaded adjustable leg in either steel of aluminum. 

  • The anti-slip ply decking on the platform is encased in an aluminum box section extrusion.

  • Off set steel plate hooks. 

  • Easily identifiable brace lengths. 

  • Towers can be supplied with three types of ladder access. 

  • If standard equipment will not overcome your problems, special designs can be made to order. 

Limpet

The Limpet - Making safety stick 

  • Prevents tampering and dislodgement 

  • Fast, safe installation 

  • Economical - One Limpet secures two boards 

  • Safe, smooth, dome shaped eliminates tripping hazard- no projections no underside of platform 

  • Durable and light - easily maintained 

  • Minimal Space between boards 

LIMPET - Meeting the demands of the health and Safety Executive 

Special Features 

Stops unauthorised tampering with boards as a scaffolding spanner is required to undo the fixing bolting- so eliminating one of the major causes of accidents in the construction industry. 

Easily, quickly and safely installed. The Limpet is fixed in place by working from the boarded platform section using a scaffolding spanner, there is no need to reach or go below the platform. 

One Limpet secures two boards simultaneously thereby halving the number of fittings required. 

No tripping hazard as the unique limpet has a flat dome shape- unlike the commonly used half wrap clip which protrudes approx. 19 mm above the boards. 

Minimal space between boards (12 mm approx.) Less gap than with half wrap clip fittings and in permanent gratings. 

No bolts protruding into lower platforms - preventing possible head injuries. 

Ease of servicing and maintenance. The bolts are replaceable and the cup coated against corrosion protection, with an optional high specification (FeZn5/FeZn8) coatings to withstand extreme offshore conditions. 

The Limpet is extremely strong, lightweight, neat and easily handled and can be used for securing double toe boards. 

Over the past few years, several attempts have been made to produce a fast and efficient method of securing down boards to prevent displacement from wind and unauthorised and unqualified movement from others. 

From a safety aspect, the consequences of board displacement on a scaffolding can be serious. If a board is blown off a scaffolding, there is a risk that site personnel or the general public could be injured or killed. There could be damage to the fabric of the building or to equipment. 


In all, board displacement can be a costly affair to all concerned, be it an insurance claim or a claim between contractors, or loss of production on site, or more serious of human life. 

There are various methods of fixing boards down boards, although most of them are adequate for the task whether holding one board or several, other safety factors can become highlighted because of the action of securing the boards. 

Common hazards are from tripping over protrusions such as rope and wire that can become stretched and the board has become loose, or by mechanical means where the fittings are of a thickness above the level of the board, of having to perform the fixing operation underneath the boards where tools could easily be dropped or cause a fall from leaning underneath to work. 

Where rope and wire is used, it is normally limited to one use and therefore produces a nuisance waste and also an ongoing consumable every time the boards are moved and re-fixed. 

Unlike any other board fastener, the "Limpet" can boast a number of features that make it unique. It is a quality made fitting designed to be efficient for its purpose, it will cause no tripping hazard, it can be fastened from the top of boards with a scaffold spanner and be used time and again in the same way as any other type of scaffolding fitting. It has been designed to be light but strong and handled easily and speedily by the fixer and its raised cup makes it difficult to undo the fixing bolt with any other than a box spanner. The "Limpet" can be serviced like any other type of fitting and all components are replaceable. 


In all, the "Limpet" has been designed and manufactured professionally by a team with a considerable amount of accumulated experience in manufacture, professional safety and practical usage on site, with a view to it being user friendly, light and durable and cannot be used for any other task other than what it was designed for, and therefore safeguards itself against being used incorrectly as a substitute for another type of fixing. 

The research into the cost of manufacture, assembly and distribution have been carefully monitored to ensure a cost effective alternative to any other methods currently used, with it being priced sensibly added to its reuse and speedy application value, it can be a worthy investment to the user. 

The "Limpet" is proving popular in high risk areas such as the chemical industry and offshore industries where safety and efficiency are high priority, and prone to high winds. 

There are now in excess of 50,000 units so far acquired and used successfully by leading chemical and offshore companies with further repeat orders imminent, thus proving their capabilities as a serious contender to alternative options, also a large amount are being used and growing more popular on general sites including our own contracts department where they are proving beneficial to the quality of service. 

If you require any further information regarding the "Limpet" fitting, then please contact us.