Building 135 foot tall

[jrannis]

We had a project. Not that high but, we used a system that was made by unistrut that had 1/2" kos every foot or so and was designed as a raceway. You could open any of the knock outs and hang a fixture through the hole. It also had a snap on cover. You could hoist the fixtures from it no problem.
Good thing about it was that you could pull the wire from one end to the other and just tap off of the conductors where ever you needed to

 

[Fulthrotl]

Marklift still a company? I like their scissors lifts. The whole deck can slide forward or backwards 4 or 5 feet with the press of a button with the wheels staying in the same spot. Kinda handy for working over a little bit of stuff.

The absolute worst I ever used was Hefty Herman. I hope they're out of business.

marklift appears to be gone... just used ones and parts... i googled
100' marklift and halfway down the page was a link to this page...

it's a shame, but they were expensive, and the best ones you could
get in the 1980's.... and JLG came out with this junk, and way undercut
them, and they disappeared.

in 1987, i was working on that lift when the whittier narrows earthquake
hit... i had just lowered it to the ground, but was still boomed out, when
the quake hit. the basket with me in it moved back and forth about 30'.
i was able to stay in the basket, but ended up in a pile in the bottom...
you couldn't stay on your feet....

wonder what it would have been like up at 85' ...... :-(((
thank god i had just come down to pee.....

 

[masterinbama]

marklift appears to be gone... just used ones and parts... i googled
100' marklift and halfway down the page was a link to this page...

it's a shame, but they were expensive, and the best ones you could
get in the 1980's.... and JLG came out with this junk, and way undercut
them, and they disappeared.

in 1987, i was working on that lift when the whittier narrows earthquake
hit... i had just lowered it to the ground, but was still boomed out, when
the quake hit. the basket with me in it moved back and forth about 30'.
i was able to stay in the basket, but ended up in a pile in the bottom...
you couldn't stay on your feet....

wonder what it would have been like up at 85' ...... :-(((
thank god i had just come down to pee.....

well I can bet you wouldn't of had to come down to pee.

 

[donselectric]

you'll wish you didnt use it for rigging as your falling 50 ft
id fire your arse if it were my ppe... i'm sure osha would love it
:roll:

 

[Rampage_Rick]

I have taking an 80ft JLG all the way out before. Thats spooky enough.

Ditto. We were installing an antenna cluster on top of a building. It was a might wet and windy. We had a couple of large beach umbrellas but it was pretty much moot given that the rain was coming in at 45?

At least it was nice the next day when we went to align them. Would have been near impossible with the basket swaying four feet to-and-fro as it had been doing the day before.

 

[bamawildcat]

The absolute worst I ever used was Hefty Herman. I hope they're out of business.

Yep, the original company that made them now just makes gun re-loaders. Heff-T-Hermans are no more.