Before I'd use stilts, I'd probably try to create an upgraded version of something like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InRGtm4xmSg ~
I've never used stilts and don't plan on it. An owner of our company division doesn't push them, either, as he once told me he almost really hurt himself a couple of times when using them, including almost really nailing the back of his head on the edge of a metal beam when he once went over backwards hard. Doesn't want that to happen to others.
Only one guy in our company division uses stilts anymore, and he just about did a header on the last job he used them, slipping on some mud he'd dropped on the floor while mudding a bulkhead. Hurting oneself isn't how the work gets done. Things like that can also potentially cause you grief for a long time after, maybe for life.
I can wheel around on things like my 4' and 6' mini-scaffolds to most places quite fast when needed, and I'd say they're safer (6' has outrigger bottoms), and easy to get down from if I want. In the job I was mentioning, however, it was a commercial reno job with lots of stuff laying around the floor in the middle of the rooms, including about the corners. A little hard to get around in some places at times, even with a small scaffold. Even trying to properly put something like a step ladder into some corners wasn't too easy, unless one moved things around.
Were you there? I already said it was clean when I did it.
Maybe sounds messy to you, but it wasn't. Any tool I have, I can usually get onto running well quickly, including my banjo. But I have heard some people can't run them, or run them well. I can't understand why.
What's "professional" and "mickey mousing with a half a$$ way to get something done" in this situation?
Your way: Thinning down taping mud enough for bazooka; then unless you're running more than one pump on jobsite, putting only pump into mud (inconveniently tying it up at times) and getting it ready, including maybe clearing out whatever is already in the pump; then pulling out the bazooka and loading it, including loading and threading the tape; then getting the bazooka feeding tape and mud well enough; then applying thinned down mud with tape, which will take longer to dry than the mud I can use in my banjo, so we can't get back into the corners sooner if we want; then emptying the bazooka and cleaning it; then clearing pump, to go back to pumping coating mud; for only a few corners?
My way: After thinning mud enough so I could pour it into banjo okay enough, I safely had the tapes placed in little enough time, with a nice even coating of not as thinned down taping mud on the tapes, that rollered and flushered out fine. No potential mud issues to clean up after from the taping or flushing. It only takes a minute or 2 to clean my banjo out at end of day. Once I've used it, I often leave it in water till then, in case I want to use it again during the day. Always ready to go, unlike a bazooka.
With a little more practice, I'd get it done even faster than I did this first time. Making an approriate way to attach my banjo upright to something like the side of a bucket - maybe a partially filled mud bucket for refilling the banjo, so I don't have to hold the banjo upright between my feet or go running back for more mud - will be something I'll look at doing.
My super taper could possibly also do such a job as well, though, maybe even better in some ways. But mud would likely have to be a little thinner than I can get away with in my banjo. It's just not quite as convenient to get it out and mudded up at times, either, as I can usually find more things to conveniently use my banjo on around a site than I can the super taper.
and cleaning a bazooka is a breeze ....
