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Stanley
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This is a continuation of Steeplejack's Next Corner. Click on this link for the older topic:
Jacks Corner Part 3
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Stanley
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Posted - 13/10/2009 : 08:01
Daniel thought some of the snaps were his, I had to put him right! What a good job someone was there.....
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bob hulin
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Posted - 13/10/2009 : 18:06
CRACKING STUFF. TOM. ive bin in cyprus for 14 days mate, Drinking most nights till 2am. all the stuff you dont like. hehe
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Posted - 13/10/2009 : 19:26
Cheers Bob,hope you had a nice time mate,ive had a better time than you,stuck here climbing piles of ladder and going home stinking of boiled oil hehe...drinking till 2am,was you going out at midnight  ...uuurrrrr beer ,disgusting,hehe..
Stanley,tell Daniel i'll have a go one of Charlie the flu sweeper and use his snaps,if i can find the right music,cant do a worded one like you 2 do on photobus,iam too shy
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swifty
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Posted - 14/10/2009 : 18:14
tom do you have enough time to get smelling of oil ,he he glad to see you back bob ive missed ur pics  whats pink and goes around and around ? steven gatelys suitcase ,
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Posted - 14/10/2009 : 19:59
Stanley, I'm catching up on a couple of things from earlier in the thread. That vaulting in the rail tunnel is impressive but I didn't even realise there were tracks crosing in tunnels. What sort of angle did the tracks cross at below the vaulting?
What's a pot tippler toilet? I saw your photo and happened to mention it to my father. He remembers the terraced house he was born in had a toilet in the yard and no cistern. There was a bucket underneath to collect everything and it was also fed with waste water from the kitchen sink outlet. So it would gradually fill and automatically tip its contents away, presumably down the sewer. Is this what you mean by pot tippler?
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Stanley
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Posted - 15/10/2009 : 07:44
The cast iron vaulting is over a cross tunnel at right angles joining the two standedge bores in the middle. Never meant for tracks, just access. There are other cross bores from the tunnels into the canal tunnel which was used for spoil removel during the building. There is also access to the modern tunnel and the old tunnel was used for motorised access to it for maintainence.
Tippler toilets are a pot pedestal immediately over a shaft down to the sewer and connected by a 'U' trap. They were flushed by the tippler which collected household waste water and when full it overbalanced and shot about ten gallons of water down the tippler to flush it. There's quite a lot in a post made by Donald.
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bob hulin
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Posted - 16/10/2009 : 19:53
 come on Swifty, climb up or are you scared. 
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swifty
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Posted - 16/10/2009 : 20:45
eh bob chance would be a fine thing i can tell you , i reckon swift steeplejack services is the way forward i reckon , stack at woodnook on cards for first job bob you free at weekends or should i tap ronnie goggins up new alliminium ladders nissan navara pickup can see it now nice crisp winter morns frost on the rungs wind on youre face ,lashing with rain ,or a nice warm cab on a high reach ,can i phone a friend id ask the audience but theyed be biest 
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Posted - 16/10/2009 : 23:18
How to build a chimney.
http://books.google.ie/books?id=oN8DAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=&f=false
Arguing wth an engineer is like wrestling with a pig, everybody gets dirty, but the pig loves it
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Stanley
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Posted - 17/10/2009 : 04:59
Nice one Swifty. Can I think about it for a while?
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swifty
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Posted - 17/10/2009 : 19:31
stanley you ponder on it as long as it takes altough if i was being honest i would like to have been a jack but you cant always get what you want , bodge just were do you get all the good info from you just have far to much time on youre hand s nice piece on the magnet , i use one at work now and then ,handy piece of kit saves a lot of picking
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Posted - 17/10/2009 : 20:11
Steeplejacking is a mugs game Swifty,all its good for is conversations in pubs and 'tinternet...
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Stanley
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Posted - 18/10/2009 : 07:19
Still scanning negs. here are a couple that will bring a tear to your eyes, Ross Mill in 1978.
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swifty
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Posted - 19/10/2009 : 19:32
grand owd mill that one stanley few weeks demo on there i can tell you a school stands on the ground now and a lot of it is srill wasted
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Stanley
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Posted - 20/10/2009 : 08:56
It had the longest rope drive in Britain and probably the world. Progress I suppose but what are we building now as imposing as this?
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Steeplejacks Corner Part Four
