At about 4:30pm, on a cooling afternoon but still lovely sunshine, we had a bit of a disaster! We were moving the scaffolding tower to its new position to install some more rafters into the “P” section of the roof over the Great Room. The problem was that while moving the tower, it had picked up a trailing end of the orange power lead that was hanging off the other tower and somehow hooked itself up on the platform. So both of us suddenly had the same idea of climbing up the tower to rescue the lead but immediately, the tower started toppling over! It was the combined force of our first step onto the bottom rail and the weight of our bodies that made the tower suddenly have its “feet” knocked out from underneath itself! It was one scary moment where we both skipped out of the way, and somehow avoiding the falling metal structure. But it wasn’t a total escape as Shaun sustained some muscle injuries in doing the sudden sideways movement and also trying to stop the tower falling over and strained his muscles on both sides of his back.
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That was Disaster Number Two and we were left wondering what Number Three will be? O Boy!