This video highlights why swing stages can be dangerous in windy conditions. Don't look if you are squemish!:

http://www.contractjournal.com/blogs/the-foreman-blog/2008/02/mastclimber-mayhem.html

Yowza!

That is one scary video! I don't quite understand why it is moving around so much, is that really just the wind doing that? In which case, it is hard to have that much sympathy with the people who went up in the swing stage, it was there own fault for going up in such dangerous conditions.

This really is a prime example of why you shouldn't use a swing stage and should use a mastclimber instead. It is like a rollercoaster ride in that video, absolutely crazy that anyone would ever consider getting in one of those things.

Good point about the mastclimbers brickie.

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