{"id":50,"date":"2026-07-31T13:56:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T13:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-scaffolding-pro\/2026\/07\/31\/winter-work-and-frozen-ground\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T13:56:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T13:56:26","slug":"winter-work-and-frozen-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-scaffolding-pro\/2026\/07\/31\/winter-work-and-frozen-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter work and frozen ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ground that happily carried your base plates in September behaves very differently after a hard frost and a thaw.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Settlement after a thaw<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Frozen ground is stiff. When it thaws, it can soften well below its original bearing capacity, and a scaffold that was plumb in December can be out of level by February. Sole boards spread the load; regular inspection catches the movement.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ice, not just wind<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Boarded lifts hold ice, and ice adds load and makes decks lethal. Winter inspections take longer for a reason, and gritting the access towers is part of the job, not an extra.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ground that carried your base plates in September may not in February. Sole plates, thaw, and the inspection that catches it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[22,21,20],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-safety","tag-ground-conditions","tag-sole-plates","tag-winter-working"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-scaffolding-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-scaffolding-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-scaffolding-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-scaffolding-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-scaffolding-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-scaffolding-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-scaffolding-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-scaffolding-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-scaffolding-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-scaffolding-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}