This intriguing and elegant structure is clearly a masterpiece of pinpoint balancing – but it's not really scaffolding, is it?
Thanks to Joseph de Klerk for this image taken recently in Ghana of an “attempt” at scaffolding, as he describes it.
![DIY scaffolding](https://d2vhdk00tg424t.cloudfront.net/MediaLibrary/s3/ubm-library/web/c/w/y/Blunder_DIY_scaffolding.jpg)
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Thanks to Joseph de Klerk for this image taken recently in Ghana of an “attempt” at scaffolding, as he describes it.
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