by klondike mary » Thu Dec 24, 2020 12:13 pm
Was it made from plywood? YES Did it break because it was weakened? Overloaded? This. Damaged? Was one person on it? Two? 2 1/2Three? Four? Five? More?
GalFisk
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When we were expecting our second child, my husband & I were engaged in putting an addition on to our house. While sheetrocking the ceiling, he enlisted me (7 + months pregnant) to hold up one end of a 4' x 8' sheet of sheetrock while he begin to nail from the other end. To do this, he had made a temp scaffold of a sheet of plywood across two sawhorses. So I got up there and was holding the sheetrock over my head, when the plywood began to crack beneath my feet. He jumped off, and I sank s l o w l y to the floor. Since the descent was so slow, and was from a height of less than two feet, no harm was done, but I resigned as carpenter's helper on the spot.
I don't remember how he finally got the job done - another thing I have blotted out of my memory - but eventually it was accomplished.
It should be noted that at this point I (we) oughtweighed hiim by several pounds, and that is why the plywood began to crack from my side.