Scaff's Fact File,
During your average working life you will handle 90,000 tonnes of equipment, this equates to:
180,000,000 meteres of tube
54,000,000 fittings
4,000,000 boards
or the aircraft carrier the U.S Nimitz.
Also, if you erect on average scaffold 6m high daily during your working life you would have erected scaffolding equivalent to a height of 32 miles or 52000 meteres, this equates to:
12140 London Buses (14ft)
920 Nelson Columns (185ft)
173 Eiffel Towers (986ft)
or
6 Mount Everests (29000ft)
I would love to tell you all I sat and worked that little lot out. Unfortunately I found it on the back of an nasc health and safety watch from 2006. I knew I had seen the info somewhere but couldn't remember where and it has taken me till now to find it. Sorry for the delay.