Heres gelly with dark hair, changing air craft warning light tubes on ince b power station  hand irons

Yes Tom

I will take that on board , most of my jobs , can be done of the ladders , painting etc , or  with the  in the chair ,

moving on to a new topic , lime mortar !  a lot of jobs now ask for this porduct , have you ever worked with this stuff ?

Hi Carvida and welcome, ask what ever you want, say whatever you want (but keep it clean or you will get your legs slapped by  Belle) any time, the more the better, how are things done up there in Scotland? I bet it`s a bit awkward getting in to a bosuns chair while wearing a kilt eh? 

I agree about the internal step irons, normally they were installed for the builders access when they built the chimney, but i used them once when i put a dummy on the top of a chimney due for felling by explosives for a practical joke, (page 44 of this topic) a bit daft i know but i thought it was worth taking the risc, he he.

When we did chair drops from flat roofs on office or appartment blocks, we sometimes rigged the chairs off three 56 lb. (25 kilo) weights. Of course you could only do this if there was a parraret. The weights were placed on the roof at the foot of the parrapet, a wire was tied through them, then over the top where the block was shackled on. Sounds a bit iffy but it`s a very safe method if you know what your doing. 

Those aircraft warning lights look exactly the same as the ones on Dungerness power station, but we changed out the whole unit , not just the bulbs.

hi colsack

                        I it is a job getting into the bosuns chair , you have got to were jock strap or anything to tie down you tackle !  notcied you also did some commercial diving , I owened fraserburgh diving services , before selling the busness to my two brothers , most of our busness came from prop jobs ,local fishing boats and also oil supply vessels , their is a aberdeen steeplejack , john still , just found out he to was in the diving game , strange !

hi gelly

                nice photo of you working on the lights , have you ever been in my neck of the woods , aberdeenshire , on any of your jobs or in scotland ?

Lime mortar,theres plenty of info on this subject on here somewhere,you'll have to have a root round,or is it lime putty you are on about ?

Gelly ,that job looks like a" nightmare i Malta",i think it would have to be lowered on chain blocks,no way it would slide on that rebar,never seen a concrete chimney as rotten,not so many would take that on.

still do it the same way Col with the 56ers,you can do it on flat roofs aswell,just pack a scaff tube up till its level with enough room under it to hang the weights,we was talking about this today at work,a guy was lowering the weights off the back of the cat head with the cat head,when he was lowering the last ones he tried to counter balance it by standing on the back of the cat head but lost his balance a bit ,the cathead flip up and threw him over the parapet wall,the guy lived but now spends all his time drinking and stuttering,whoops..

Carvida, your giving tackle rigging a whole new meaning!  Watch out for belle, shes watching! Diving and steeplejacking, two jobs at the very opposite ends of the spectrum, but in some ways closely linked by the same use of rigging equipment and techniqes, learning how to use tirfors, pull lifts, strops, knots, crane work ect. while steeplejacking helped me alot in the diving game, but i only came accross one other diver who had done a bit of jacking.

While on Harknetts we did a shingling job in Loch carron.

Hock iiiiiiii tha noooooooo,rope burns in strange places spring to mind,he he !

A gifted scots man has 3 stop lashings on his bosuns chair,hehehehe!

Tom the raido mast was durris its the second most powerfull tv transmitter in uk, crystal palace being no 1.

                                     Tom when peterhead was being built 1970s the forman steeplejack was killed by the cats head collapseing , It was a real disaster ! the could not get him down , due to inclamate weather conditions ! he lay up their a few days , speculation on how to get him down was rife , we you went for a pint at any local that was all the topic , it was sicknen .

        Anyway to cut along story short , pindrick steeplejack , himself the story goes jumped into his merc with his labourer and drove up to peterhead , told the h&s to **** off , proceeded to climb the chimney with his labourer and lowered him down , it turned out to be a former employe , of pindrichs , what a sad story , however I guess , in the back of all our mind if the worse came to the worse we would like a man like pindrich to do the necessary busness!

Tom on the subject of falling off , I was repairing a school bell tower last saturday , at  a place called Buckie , on the Moray firth ,  and got a few calls to fall off , and these pepole was not kids ? , I guess your not bothered with this been , to high up no one can shout up the hights your working at , still it make you wonder what kind of people are they?