I would do the wooden bridge but not the others. I might walk along that path the bikes are on, but I wouldn’t ride a bike there.
Had him on the other night, braying down a chimney on his Todd. You ever see the one where he's mate shows him how to put the scaffolding around the top using weight distribution and massive balls?
I remember working in South Hetton 38 years or so ago, we would 2 coat render 2 and 3 storey houses then Tyrolean them a couple of days later. You can't have joints in Tyrolean so the whole house has to be done a full wall at a time from top to bottom in 1 go. This was well before Health and Safety started to take an interest in men working at height. We would start at the top level of the saffolding. I say we, I mean me and my labourer and I would Spray a coat of Tyrolean and then quickly strip the top level of scaffold. We had to fill in the pudlick holes with darbo then Tyrolean that level. The scaffold by this time had become very unsafe so we would attach ropes to the highest scaffold poles which would sway back and forth as I used the Tyrolean gun. We thought nothing of this, it was how we finished a house without unsightly joints. Crazy days I wouldn't wish on any plasterer now, the amount of close shaves I had was unbelievable but if you didn't do it they would get some other bugger to do it. Nowadays the site manager would end up in court for allowing that kind unsafe working practices. This is a Tyrolean gun for any old spreads on here. You had to hold it with 1 hand while you turned the handle with tother. That's why I used the ropes cos I had no fixed point to hold onto.
The stunning spiral staircase situated on the wall of Taihang Mountains in Linzhou, China. The 300 ft-tall spiral staircase offers the thrill of mountaineering without the danger, but is not for the faint of heart or those with acrophobia! Just looking at these stairs is enough to make you feel dizzy. In fact, potential climbers are required to be under 60 years of age to even be allowed to use the stairs, and have to sign a form stating that they have no heart or lung problems. Rodrigo Alberto Torres
That looks like a good way to keep fit, Spirit This lad looks like he's already got dirty shorts . . . . please log in to view this image I wonder about this one please log in to view this image
Aye mate, I watched all his videos after working out in Abu Dhabi with a few steeplejacks they are ****ing nuts. I’m rope access but I like to be clipped onto something haha love how he has a couple pints at lunch before climbing back up with a tab hanging out his mouth.
Fred was the man alright. Completely averse to all risk. He did everything himself with a bloke at the bottom getting a bad neck by looking up at him! There's a film of him putting his own ladders up a 200ft chimney using a hammer and chisel, some wooden plugs , metal pegs and some rope. At the top, he is hanging one legged of his ladder, having a tab and just engaging in casual conversation with a cameraman in a giant cherry picker. Legend.
Yeah man proper grafter too, even when he finished all that climbing he’d go and work on his stream engines till daft o’clock in the morning. Absolute one off
Fred's programmes were unique, his cheeky grin, hooter and catch phrase "did ya like that" marked him out immediately, as he theatrically brought down huge chimneys in front of onlookers, using little more than a hammer and chisel a few shores, firewood and a box of matches was scary. Then seeing him defying gravity putting up staging around the few chimneys still left as has been mentioned, were jaw dropping. His later hands on series about architecture and engineering, explaining anything and everything in simple language as he went along, highlighted just what a clever man he really was, a true one off..
Some real mentalists out there with these stunts mind. I've always had a very well developed respect for gravity after climbing out of the window when I was three. I can still feel the rose bush in my arse. Being up there, or in fact down there, or floating about in the briny is not for me. You put up with it when you have to get somewhere, but that's it for me. I'll stay in my proper element, planted on God's good earth!
Those pics of blokes sitting or walking across girders from the 1920s always amaze me. I’d be paralysed with fear.
