Why buy a telescopic scaffold tower?
03/06/2016
Mobile scaffold towers and telescopic scaffold towers are essential pieces of kit in many trades. Whether you’re in the building trade or your fitting windows, a telescopic tower will provide the access you need.
The advantages of telescopic scaffold towers
Telescopic towers offer a huge range of benefits to all kinds of tradesmen.
These include:
- Flexibility
Telescopic towers allow you to work from a variety of heights with ease. This means you can carry out multiple jobs with just one piece of equipment – saving you time and money.
- Well constructed
Telescopic scaffold towers have been built with safety and durability in mind. Made from hard-wearing aluminium, they’re ideal for indoor and outdoor use plus a whole range of professional purposes.
- Convenience
Telescopic towers are lightweight, compact, and easy to transport – easily fitting into your vehicle. Their compact design also means that the tower is easy to erect, put down, and manoeuvre around safely.
- Great safety features
Despite being a lightweight and easily transportable piece of kit, telescopic scaffold towers are top dog when it comes to safety. They’re usually fitted with lockable castors, easy to operate controls, and features such as guardrails and stabilisers.
Product focus: The Zarges Teletower
If you’re looking to invest in a telescopic scaffold tower, we strongly recommend Zarges Teletower, the world’s first telescopic mobile access tower.
Compared to a more traditional scaffold tower, this telescopic tower is easier to transport, store, and erect – making it an ideal choice for busy professionals. In fact, it can be set up by one person in less than three minutes!
Other benefits include:
- Easy access to varying heights – with platform heights ranging between 0.33m to 61cm
- Access to working heights of up to 4m
- Designed with sturdy, safe, and durable aluminium
- Comfortable to work from, with a large folding aluminium work platform of 1.4m x 0.7m
- Fantastic safety features including telescopic guardrails, platform stabilisers, and lockable castors.
Safe use of telescopic towers
Even though your telescopic scaffold tower will have been built with safety in mind, it’s still important to practise health and safety yourself – at all times. If you’re not sure about the correct use of telescopic tower, why not sign up to one of our safety training courses?
Our Mobile Scaffold Towers Training is a great option for those operatives who work from mobile scaffold towers. The course covers both 3T and Advanced Guardrail systems.
Alternatively, for a broader look at access equipment, you might like to attend our Ladders, Steps & Scaffold Towers Training Course. Ideal for beginners or those who require a refresher, the course will cover everything you need to know about using your access equipment correctly.
For more information on either of these courses, give the Course Enquiries team a call on 01282 615517.