So for me the question is what have you needed in the past ?, if stageing is not some thing you use often why not rent ?.
As you get older those hights get taller and you may wish not to climb the side of stageing like a monkey.
In the past I haven't needed too much as far as staging. My one Baker's scaffold along with a couple 12 foot planks and a bunch of ladders have done what I needed. I do mostly residential but in the last couple years have been getting more and more commercial jobs. I used to do a lot of commercial ten years ago when I worked for someone and we had every kind of scaffolding and tons of it. But we did bigger buildings so a little different as to what we used the most. I don't mind buying the stuff, that's the fun part of the job when you get to go tool shopping. Was just trying to figure out what would be more useful down the road for future jobs and see what others thought. I was thinking that a couple sets of scaffolding would be better since they can be used for jobs Baker's can't and I already have one Baker that has served my needs so far. But as others have said I think for now I'm just going to order the two story Baker set because it'll be better for most jobs I do. Then start looking for some used scaffolding to have around for when it's needed.
Do you guys with two story Baker's use a ladder to get up or just climb the sides?
Might have to look into a self retracting lanyard also just to be on the safe side in case anyone shows up.
