Thread: Homemade trestles

I think your best bet for planks would be the aluminium ones.

Simple A frame trestles could be made- like a step ladder but it may be cheaper to go to bunnies or Mitre10 and buy the aluminium ones.

2 trestles, 2 planks - over $1,000 locally or a 150klm drive one way at $200 less for Al

Originally Posted by Woody60

2 trestles, 2 planks - over $1,000 locally or a 150klm drive one way at $200 less for Al

Here's where I sourced my boards.

I bought the chinese-made hyPlanks. which are laminated beams, but all the local scaff planks I could find made from timber were too "good" for use as scaff. (It would've ended up in a project, not my scaffold. ) The hyPlanks are cheap, light-weight and last well; being laminated, they don't warp. All thinks to look for in scaff.

My trestles are very similar to part #31032 on the same page, but adjust from 1m to 1.9m.

Four of 'em and 4x 2.4m hyPlanks came in at well under a grand!

Do you have any step ladders Woody?

I bought a Gorilla brand adjustable step ladder at Bunnies - like the ones advertised on TV, but nowhere near the price. If you need 2.4M for trestles then it seems that at least one of these ladders would be the way to go as you can use it for other purposes. It unfolds to make an extension type ladder and you can make 2 X 6' trestles also.

Thanks - I'll check them out

The cheapest ally planks I have come across are from Direct Aluminium.

The ladder artme describes sounds very similar to these. Have 2 of them myself. Great for small stairways as one can extend one side independant of the other.

The "horseshoe" joiners that come with each individual ladder are a bit iffy if u ask me. Apart from that great ladder. Very sturdee.

It would help if I actually inserted fotos.

That's the ladder Jatt.

Believe me those horseshoe joiners are very strong and work very well.

Thanks Guys

I have one of them and its a great ladder.

But a 2.4 metre high trestle is high and needs to be probably 900 to 1000 wide to be stable enough to stand on at that height.

A far safer arrangement would be a demountable scaffold, have a look on ebay.

2.4m trestle , how tall is your house?
2.4m would give a comfortable reach of over 4.4m(assuming an average blokes height)I wouldnt go any higher without scaffolding as a fall from even this height can be a nasty set back.

A pro painter died in Warrnambool last year after a fall from a 3 metre high veranda roof.

gutter is 3.6m

1.5m would do that easy... unless your really short!
You can always add a small extension to your brush handle