STEEPLEJACK'S CORNER 2012

[Steeplejerk]

Dunny will recall this photo from Devlins letterheads,think Fred said it was Tommy Schofield and Roy Dilly.

[Stanley]

Good Lad Tom, we can't have too many pics! (Are you working on Bancroft at the moment? Haven't walked up that way for a while.....)

[Bodger]

No safety ?
http://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/an ... yc-247607/

[Stanley]

The Brooklyn Bridge was the first to use multiple strand wire suspension cables and later they found they used inferior steel. The book to read is McCullough 'The Bridge'. At the time I was there the HQ of the BB Preservation Society was in Amsterdam!
The bridge in 1980 when I first met it....

[Stanley]

Tom and Peter on Ellenroad in 1954.

[Steeplejerk]

Puffin' on my Craven A ,should have packed em in ,filthy habit ,hard to believe its nearly 60yrs ago this photo

[Stanley]

OOOPs! You're right Tom, 1986! (I thought "What the hell's he on about!" and then noticed the mistake....)

[Bodger]

A new peril for you "jacks"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... tower.html

[Bodger]

Tom, tha cud try this on't Tower ?
http://www.britishpathe.com/video/acrob ... lls-geneva

[Stanley]

I seem to remember reading an account of a bullet fired into the head above one ear, travelling right round and exiting above the opposite ear. It could have been a failed suicide. Scalp skin must be tough stuff!

[Stanley]

The story about the shot jack must have triggered me old grey matter. In about 1958 when I was picking up farm milk in kits for West Marton Dairy I had a kit on the outside row with a ragged hole in it when I reached the farm. The bullet was still in the can and was a deformed .303. I don't think anyone was shooting at me, it was tumbling when it arrived and I reckon it was a spent round, someone had been careless with an army rifle. We never reported it, just carried on!

[Steeplejerk]

After tracking and shooting the steeplejack immediately remove all the ofal as it's totally useless ,as for the rest of the meat follow the same same guidelines as you would to cook Mutton!!

[Stanley]

But remember that they are thick-skinned beasties and you need something heavier than an air rifle. When wounded they are very dangerous!

[Bodger]

This topic has gone quiet, where are all the jacks that were on here ?. heres one for Tom, how the Yanks do it, Fred eat your heart out !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXRavu-TAwg

[Stanley]

Nice tidy job Bodge. Wonderful what Kevlar can contain! When they demolished Dee Mill they simply stacked sheets of corrugated iron against the base, they worked, to much surface area to be moved quickly enough for the debris to fly out.

[Stanley]

Dee Mill chimney demolition.

[Stanley]

[Stanley]

A tidy job......

[Stanley]

Deerplay brickworks chimney being dropped by Peter Tatham.

[Stanley]

Sunnybank at Haslingden. 220ft high. Dropped by Peter Tatham in 1977.

[Stanley]

Ronnie Goggins supervising the cutting out of the gob on Jubilee chimney at Padiham.

[Stanley]

Ronnie propping the gob on Jubilee chimney.

[Stanley]

Jubilee coming down.

[Stanley]

They're repeating Fred Dibnah's last series, on TV. Turned the set on last night and found myself watching his last chimney felling, Park Mill at Royton.



Fred's tidy job of cutting and propping Era stack at Rochdale in 1979.

[Bodger]

Curious, why is there a hole in each of the props ?