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Below is our course on  the science of BOARDOLOGY and a recent update:  Please take the time to take the course below..........and become a certified boardologist  :)

 

We have several competitors that carry a light duty cheap 7 ft aluminum plywood walkboard.  We study them carefully.  It's our life not just our job.   We used to carry and sell the same cheap AP-7 type board as they now carry.  We had so many returns and complaints from contractors that we decided to manufacture our own board.  No other direct retailer like us does this.  NOT ONE.  They all buy and resell.  That means simply for you............ more money for less product.   This cheap type of board is made by several companies here in the USA but most import this board.  Below is a picture so you can identify this board and make a wise, informed and educated decision.  When you look closely it becomes a very easy choice to make.  A comparable high quality type board like ours will cost you $30-$80 more from Werner, Biljax, Waco or Safeway etc.  They all build a nice high quality board.  We think our board is superior to them and we talk about that below.  If you have a few minutes get yourself an education on boardology by reading below.  Then you will become a certified boardologist.  A boardologist can sniff out cheap Chinese and US imitators and make a discerning diagnosis as to the superior product for the money.  He can avoid buying a cheap junk board and avoid buyer remorse down the road.   If your budget is tight order our solid steel board.  It's a great budget alternative and it's nicer than an ultra cheap flimsy AP-7 junk alum/ply two piece hook board which we refuse to sell.  Our steel board is load tested to 5300 lbs.  Ask for their load test..............:)

 

Reasons to buy our board vs our competitors.  Any of them including all major high quality US manufacturers.  Please read carefully....it's your money.

 

 

1        Buy direct or buy from a middleman?  You know the answer to that.  We are direct.  That's what you want.  All others you are currently quoting that manufacture a high quality board do not sell direct.   If you are getting a quote online they are resellers only NOT A MANUFACTURER!!!!!!!!    Here's what happens when you don't buy direct. You pay more and get less.   Our online competitors buy a board to resell to you that uses an I-Beam with roughly an .064 in wall thickness vs our .094 in wall thickness.  At .064 when you screw a rib to the beam it is so thin it compresses and dents.   Our competitors put them together two ways.  One is hydraulically press it and the other is screw it together.   Either way ours are 50% thicker for vastly higher strength.  (Yes it cost us more to do this.)  We can do this because we are actually manufacturing this board not buying and reselling.  So what do our online competitors do about us?  They buy a cheap board and hope you don't do your homework.  Even so most are now actually higher than we are with their cheap board.   They pay more for this cheap board then mark it up and resell to you. If you check a major manufacturers high quality board you can't buy direct.  You have to go through a dealer and deal with their markup and zero value added service.   Our online competitors put their alum/ply board on the back or last page of their web site hoping you will buy an all aluminum board.   Or an all wood plank.   They use a picture showing a board like ours but when your order arrives it is a cheap light weight two piece square riveted hook type board.  How much strength does a hook have when it's held together out on the end by one little rivet?  Virtually none when dropped.  You cannot compete if you are not direct.  All the big manufacturers use dealers to minimize their headaches.  They all try anything but directly compete with us.  So anybody else and you are dealing with a middleman, dealer or reseller......period.   Or if direct and there is one and only one out there in the US it's the cheap board for more money.  This AP 7 is a very light weight board that has about 4 lbs less aluminum than ours.  Less aluminum means less strength.  They use thin cheap plywood that's around 11 mm thick and contains cheap glue.  Some even rivet the plywood on the corner edges because the glue is so bad.  Or they seal the edge with Kilz sealer to help it last a bit longer.  They use two piece hooks. That's how you tell this board and avoid buying it.   They have 1/4 the strength of our gigantic one piece custom hook.  Our hooks are gigantic.  Our I beams are gigantic.  Our ribs are meaty, beefy and gigantic.  Our bolts are gigantic.  Our screws are gigantic.  We use custom giant nylon locking nuts on the back of these bolts.  Our ribs are patterned after the best in the business (up until now) except we took their stout design and vastly increased the meat around the screw hole.  We increased the radius that blends into the main beam and the thickness of the lower and upper support beam.  Yes it cost us more to do this.   

 

 

2        Next our board is modular.  This is very important.  Modular means any part can be replaced in minutes.  How modular is a board held together with rivets and the support rib tubes hydraulically pressed together?   Every piece or part on our board can be replaced in a few minutes with simple common hand tools.   When you damage their cheap board what will you do?  Well you throw it away.  You cannot replace any part of their board.  Well you can replace the hook.  Get a drill and drill the rivets out.  Go to the hardware store and buy replacement rivets that you hope will be the same size as the original hole.  They probably will not be an exact fit.  Then rivet the new hook in place and it will initially be tight from the rivet tool's tension.  But it will quickly go loose when hoisted into position on the scaffold because the rivets are the wrong size.  What a mess.  You will deal with this issue buying from anyone else that sells this type of board.  But here's worse news.  Most times when a worker or you drop one of these boards and workers love to drop them from the second scaffold level up when no one is looking just to be lazy......when the hook bends the main I Beam also deflects.   Almost every time.  And then you will wish you had our board.  Our main beam is so stout that when dropped it rarely is bent because it is so beefy.  Why?  Because originally we were a  rental equipment company and our boards would come back in off a rental and had been dropped.   We would miss the damage and the customer would be long gone.  So our own company needs along with customer complaints that purchased this cheap board from us are what prompted us to develop a better board.  If you bend our hook, rib, or main beam it's replaced in under 10 minutes.  The plywood is held in a special slot and it's replaceable in 10 min by removing 3 screws only. Use a rubber hammer and lightly tap it out of the slot and presto it's done!   It's not riveted with 8 to 12 rivets.  This feature alone makes this board the obvious choice.  It's an investment that will last a lifetime.  Remember replaceable or modular is what you want.

 

3        Strength.  I personally want the strongest board possible underneath me when I am high up in the air.  Our's is load tested to exceed 11,000 lbs.  You probably weigh a bit less than that.  Think about that load rating.  It's incredible isn't it when you really think about it? Most others might be half as strong if they even bother to load test it.  When comparing any other board ask for their load test.  Most companies use Stork Labs so insist on a valid third party legitimate test.  Then you will witness the Hat Dance from them.  Here's a little tid bit of the behind the scenes stuff that goes on it our industry.  We hear from our 3rd party tester all the time and recently I got a call from our lab guy over at Stork Labs and he said a routine test of our board failed miserably.  Only 2200 lbs.  I was shocked and said that just can't be.  It's been routinely testing 5 times stronger than that.  I said please recheck it and the next morning he called back and I could hear the grin in his voice over the phone;  "saying you were right."  Our girls mixed up the test results with one of our very well known competitors.  Their board didn't pass..........You are probably price shopping us against them right now.  They are much higher by the way and list their board on the second page at the bottom hoping you will not directly compare us to them.   

 

4        How do you determine what you are going to get with them?  Ask them to email you a picture of their board.  One of our top competitors uses a picture similar to ours on his website.  On Ebay he uses the actual picture of his cheap board.  Talk about deceiving.  If it looks like this picture below you know it's the board referred to above.  If it looks like our board then you are ok. Concentrate on looking for a two piece hook.   No high quality board in our opinion is made this way.  At least not one we know of.  We have yet to see anyone be able to sell a board even equal to ours for near the same money.   If you find it call us...  866-900-0983.

 

Competitor Board

 

 

New Competitor Board

 

Recent Update  Now we have a new competitor sprouting off about their Steel Hooked board.  Well we used to carry (when we had 4 decent sized rental stores) this type of board with a steel hook bolted to the end of an aluminum rail.  That lasted all of 4 months til we got rid of them.  They are very weak.  As soon at the board is dropped one time and the hook takes a shot.........you end up with a bent hook, bent rail, and replacement of one whole rail and entire end cap.  It happened on nearly 50% of the rentals resulting in the "WE GOT RID OF THEM ASAP".    The steel is gray painted not even galvanized.   They rust, they bend........and just ask for a load test report.  Remember ours is 11,000 lbs til it bends out of spec. They are heavy as reported at 45 lbs vs ours at 32 lbs....... At least this board is modular from the pictures......except the pics show an alum hooked board.  And you can have all of this for $115.00.   They are buying from a large US manufacturer and reselling online........or you can do business with us direct from $72.15 or less in quantity.  Here are some pics of remnants of what we have left over from our rental days. 

 

 

 

 

Our Board

 

 

Compare our hook in the following pictures to get a grasp on just how much bigger our hooks are versus a two piece hook AP-7 type board. Our hook is on the top in the pictures below.  Notice in the pictures below how the lower hook is held together with one tiny little rivet.   Notice how easy it will be to replace ours versus their hook if dented or bent. Look at the picture that shows the end view of both and see just how much wider ours is than theirs........notice the hydralic press fit of the rib in pictures one and three that makes the main I-beam replacement impossible. If you damage the hook and it affects the I-beam you have to throw the board away. Ours is fully modular meaning any part can be replaced. Notice the plywood rivets to hold the edges together. This is because rivets are much cheaper than phenolic resin glue. They use cheap glue and we use fully waterproof glue. There are two types of these cheap boards. The other type is has screws through the main I-beams instead of being hydralically pressed. Please look at the size difference between their screw and ours in the last couple of pictures.

 

(Click pictures below for larger view)

 

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Our competitor's walkboard.  Notice the rivet that holds the two piece hook together. Notice the wasted aluminum in all the wrong places that doesn't help strength at all.

 

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Look at the enormous difference in size of our hook (on top) compared to the competitor's hook.

 

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Notice the gigantic bolts our hook uses making replacement fast and easy.  Notice the small rivets they use and the hydraulic press fitted rib a few inches to the left of the bottom board in this picture.  You can't replace the main I Beam in their board because of this rib.

 

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Hopefully you can see in this picture how much thicker our plywood is compared to theirs.  Ours is an actual 13 mm.  Theirs is 11.4 mm.

 

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Notice how rivets are needed to hold their plywood edges together due to cheap non-waterproof glue.

 

5        Next is our plywood.  We didn't just go crazy overboard overbuilding the aluminum superstructure.  We are crazy when it comes to being the best.  We don't have bean counters saying that's should not be done, or it's suicide and you can't do that like the big companies have.......... or it won't be profitable it you build it that nice.   It doesn't go to committee.  We decide to build the best hands down and we accomplish it.  We are a small southern get-it-done type company that is super competitive.  We played ball on court #1 in Woollen Gym at UNC back in the day against the very best in the business........Michael Jordan........and won the intramural championship out of 400 teams which is the most competitive league of it's type in the nation.   What are you talking about you ask?  Well whether it's basketball or building the best walkboard........it's the same thing.  Compete to be the very best.  We wanted the plywood to also be the best.  Plywood is plywood you say?  NO NO NO.........it isn't.............Read on.......

       

We specified a minimum of 7 layers for added strength.  The more layers you have the stronger the piece will be.  The grain pattern is alternated for each layer so this also increases strength the more layers you add.   This minimizes weakness from a knot or weak spot in one layer of the veneer.  Sometimes it comes in with 9 layers depending on the plywood our manufacturer has running.  We just told them at least 7 layers.   We measured competitive boards plywood thickness and all the cheap ones are around 11 mm.  That's 2 mm less than a full 1/2 inches thick.  We exactly specify to our supplier our plywood to be sanded to a +/- .5 mm thickness tolerance.  This ensures a perfect fit in the aluminum slot and consistent strength. The glue is fully waterproof.  The technical jargon for it is Phenolic resin.  It stays intact after being boiled for 72 hrs.   It helps to have been trained as a chemist......in a former life.  This glue is very costly!  Only in there due to no bean counters working for us.  We use it because we wanted to produce the best board we possibly could.  That will resist the weather.  Ask what glue is used if comparing us to another.    If we had cut a corner and gone cheap we could save over $2 in our cost structure per board.  That's several hundred $$ saved...........a DAY!  based on our current production schedule.............We build a lot of boards and that's a lot of money to save...........but we won't do that.........EVER!  How do you try to compete with the high quality very large major manufacturers if you don't do it better than them for less than them?  Our core is pure pine.  We have yet to be able to identify any competitor's wood that has the two piece hook but we think it's a loose industry slang term called "Luan".   We used to be in the timber business and know species pretty good and if pinned down we'd have to guess it to contain poplar.  Poplar breaks incredibly easily due to it's brittleness.  As boy scouts we used to go on camping trips into the woods for the weekend.  For big fun we would climb 4 to 6 in wide skinny trees 20 to 25 ft in the air and they would begin to bend and we'd ride them down to the ground.  It was so much fun.  That rush as you headed toward the ground.  The tree resisting and slowing your decent at the last moment.  We were allowed by the Scout Master to ride everything but Poplar.  He told us Poplar will break halfway down as it's very brittle and dangerous.  We saw more than one hardheaded kid hit the ground hard when trying to ride a small poplar sapling down to the ground.  Usually you heard a ear splitting crackling midway down when the tree began to seriously bend and down they would fall.  I might have even tested a poplar tree myself.  I vaguely remember that scary feeling as a kid of falling and a splitting noise but not getting hurt.  Later on  we were in the tree harvesting business.  We just took delivery on a $185,000 cutting machine that drives up to the tree with a big circular saw blade that you drive into the tree and it's cut in 2 seconds.   We drove up to a Poplar and cut it off and grabbed it with the big arms and lifted it up off the stump.  We went to tilt the tree forward and it was about 85 ft tall.  The bending action snapped it in the middle and the upper half headed straight down to the cab and landed squared on the cab just about right between my eyes.  This tree probably weighed 3,000 lbs.   I never again handled a Poplar without realizing just how brittle they are.  So given these two experiences we won't be using Poplar.  We did test Poplar early on because it's very lightweight and very cheap.  And what everybody else seemed to be using on the AP-7 type boards.  We were in the beginning learning stages then..............Now we didn't just build our board for strength but used CAD-CAM analysis to design it as strong as possible but also without excess weight.  We may talk slow here in North Carolina but we got a little something between the ears like the rest of the country.   The plywood makes up a substantial amount of the total weight.   So we tested many types of species in the beginning.  We rejected poplar almost immediately.    I believe most of our competitor  boards "Luan" is actually Poplar.  And none of them are more than 5 layers.........some are 4 layer.  That's a term you use when you just don't know what it is....."Luan".....but we do know this.........it's very cheap.  And light weight.  That's what a customer wants.   Cheap that is.  It has a cheap flimsy feel and gives me a queasy sick feeling inside............I can't imagine standing on this up high.   Anyway our minimum 7 layer pine core  has a very robust substantial feel when compared against all the competitor boards we have sitting in our test room.  You cannot bend our board vs the others.  It's stiffer, tougher, thicker 0and just a better piece of plywood.  When you sit them side by side it becomes obvious who is taking your safety seriously.   Our test gorilla weighs 360 lbs and is a rather beefy individual.  He's a big huge strong guy.  I have never seen him beat arm wrestling but twice in his life.  We had unlimited beer money in college from the winnings.......... Now his arm needs surgery from this punishment as we are getting old.  The point is when he jumps the board feels and knows it.  Probably twice the point load stress test this board will ever encounter.  He's also my best friend.  He's also scared to death of heights.  You may have seen him at all the trade shows talking about our board to anyone who will listen.  He has that natural gift of gab.  He usually pulls in a huge crowd.   So he's the perfect one to test this plywood.  We rig a board a foot off the ground at the show and he gets up there and jumps on it as hard as possible in front of everybody.  He absolutely slams down on it.   It always draws a big laugh and more importantly instant orders.....from dealers and large contractors.....we just did World of Concrete in Las Vegas and received tons of orders from all over the world.  We even had other major manufacturers asking us how we could build a board this strong for this money?  I mean from the two grandson's of the oldest scaffold company in the USA.  Talk about a compliment.  They said we will instruct our purchasing manager to get in touch with you. ..........When we first began doing this simple test the plywood would crack and make ear splitting noises...........so we kept working with the plywood manufacturer until now...........all you hear is..........NOTHING!   More importantly it has Jerry's stamp of approval.  So you know it will take a beating.  He also happens to head our sales department..........so if you want to talk just give him a call..........and he will confirm the strength of this plywood..........he will make a believer out of you very quickly......if he believes it in his heart you will feel it in his voice right through the phone line............he can't sell something he doesn't believe in.................so call him................. Just try that with any of the AP-7 type boards........and a big hole quickly develops between the ribs......on the first jump...........and it's ear splitting.  I know because we have extensively ordered test boards from every manufacturer and tried them all.  Guess the others trying to build a board were not Boy Scouts in eastern North Carolina which is the absolute heart of pine country..........every Boy Scout here knows you ride a supple pine tree down cause it doesn't break. Not a poplar.   So what do you want to stand on up high?  Yeah right.....thought so......you are just like we are...........we can't get it too big, too beefy or too overbuilt with the toughest thickest damn piece of plywood we could engineer and stuff in there.  It cost us more to do this.  And we will stand behind it.  We have never had a return yet for lack of quality.  We are southern if you can't tell and do business the southern old fashioned way.  It's how you build trust and a profitable long term business.  We feel there are no shortcuts.  Just be the best and the rest will take care of itself.  This board is exactly as advertised.  It's a super premium board and has no equal.  Do you get this kind of explanation about products elsewhere?  

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