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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 at barnoldswick.freeserve.co.uk
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Stanley
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Posted - 31/07/2009 : 07:25
Lovely to see so many names popping up again. Glad to hear you are all alive and well. Not to sure how well Giness goes down with rhubarb and custard.
As for Bodge and his 2000foot traycle stack! Sounds a bit far fetched to me....
Stanley Challenger Graham
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bob hulin
" its going leg it "
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Posted - 31/07/2009 : 17:27
 
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The Demo Man
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Posted - 31/07/2009 : 17:38
Swifty - I've worked for Sam Allons and latterly D.J.Broady
Do you know my good mate Dana Tinker?? He's a High Reach man for TDE White.
Who are you with? Are you busy? Where abouts do you work most?
Questions, questions - I'm training to be a detective ;-)
Slack at the minute - piddling about with redundant housing stock it's like shelling peas 
Edited by - The Demo Man on 31/07/2009 5:43:44 PM
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swifty
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Posted - 31/07/2009 : 19:21
stanley i think its due to this lovely summer rain we are having at present , titch we normally work in and around lancashire working for mark taylor from clitheroe driving the 345 cat with a 27m 3 piece arm rolled it once but i reckon it makes you a better driver my thoughts anyway we have one big job in accrington that should last a few mounths yet and a few little jobs in pipeline ,our man likes buying jobs i think dont know youre mate ive worked with kdc from manchester on hire with reach
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victorjack
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Posted - 31/07/2009 : 21:51
Hi lads,
Sorry I have been absent. My wife has been very ill the past weeks and it has been a torrid time. Margaret has fought her way back to recovery though and she has thankfully got over the worst. All our time has been spent looking after her every need and that is what good husbands do. I have been worn out myself but just seeing my wife up and about is the finest present anyone could have. The book is doing very well and I have had marvellous support from such loyal people who have been genuine friends. Wayne Murry who owns Churchill Steeplejacks, bought a book, Carl Woodroff of Rafferty's has been a great customer. Pete Slavin of Heightwise was another to chip in with a great contribution nd many others in the trade are contacting me and wishing me well. The Rochdale Observer sent me the review of my book they had published which was great and most helpful and all this has helped me throiugh the darkest days of the past weeks. Churchills and Raffertys sent me some great pictures free and even tameside Hospital are now buying the book . Alan Macs review has been a great help and Tizer of course has always been there for me with his generously given help throughout and it is nice to feel there are still good and trusty friends out there. As one buyer wrote of my book put it, he wrote---" for just a little more than the price of twenty cigs, one has a book that will still be there when every chimney has been knocked down and future generations will be able to still read of these icons of the industrial revolution. Thanks to you have given me some support through these past weeks. I will not forget.
Yours Sincerely,
Vic.
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The Demo Man
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Posted - 31/07/2009 : 23:05
Swifty - A good mate of mine is a manager for KDC - John Wilson, have you come across him?
In my humble opinion you'd be very lucky to operate a high reach and get away with never laying it over, particularly in demo as the ground conditions are often at best very dubious. Nice machines them CAT's, my mate swapped his for a Komatsu LC450 and has regretted it ever since the bloody tight sod!! He laid his CAT over due to a very soft ramp which gave way under him. Hats off to you lads though - skilled blokes indeed.
I remember the first time I saw and worked with one. As a Topman Burner I thought the end of the bloody road had arrived for me!! We used an RB30 and 2 ton ball until then and I'd have to swing through the air and trim all the girder work etc. Then this monster turns up and snips the bloody lot including my chance of a scrap bonus into chunks But then you realise just what they save not least in stopping folks like me being at risk day in day out for peanuts.
It's cracking to know there's another demo man joined (no offence to anyone else intended!!) 
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Stanley
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Posted - 01/08/2009 : 07:43
Tom will bear me out when I say that I've always had two categories of demolition, big lad's surgery and disorganised vandalism. I was lucky enough to see Norman and N&R working when they were in their pomp. I recommended them for Ellenroad to Gavin Bone of Coates Brothers and told him that when they had finished you'd have a job to find a loose brick on the site to scotch a wheel. I loved watching Norman with the 30cwt ball, he used to crack CI pillars out just like a golf swing. I remember him once telling me that it was a bugger when you got your ball wrapped round your jib but I never saw him do it.
Demo men are a breed on their own and as far as I am concerned the more we have on SC the better.
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Posted - 01/08/2009 : 11:20
Victor, if you send me a copy of the review of your book in the Rochdale Observer I'll put it on the Lulu book web site. Glad to hear the book is selling well. Stanley's are doing well too, but he's writing them faster than folk can read them! Give Margaret our best wishes.
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swifty
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Posted - 01/08/2009 : 17:53
titch mainly martin o donnell who we deal with is youre mate one of the five who did the managment buy out early last year, high reach machines are an head turner but not everyones cup of tea i dont mind the nodding donkeys i got a new 324 cat xmas 08 but now have to share the old 320 with being on high reach its been over twice one by me and once at blackpool like you say a lot to do with ground conditions, stanley did work for rubin and norman in oxford a big cement works .nice chaps .camped down there with pepe ,john schofield ,and linton and his bride grace who made our meals
wasnt using rbs then climbed a few jibs to lift wire back onto pulley wheel .
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Posted - 01/08/2009 : 20:59
Victor,
I was saddened to hear about Margaret being ill, but as I always say and indeed practice--Onwards and Upwards.
Pleased to read that your bonny book is receiving the coverage it deserves and that it is selling well.
I agree with our friend Tizer,Stanley is a book-producing powerhouse, and I wish him much success with his fantastic endeavours.
Good health to Margaret.
Happy Steamings.
ALAN.
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Posted - 01/08/2009 : 21:17
Thanks for the compliment there Stan  I'm a typical demo man really, you know the type I'm sure, shy and retiring not one to blow his own trumpet about the huge and often technical endeavours he's undertaken over the years in the pursuit of good solid (and may I say professional) demolition practice, so it's nice to know where appreciated......................
Those pics you posted of Norman doing Ellenroad (SCJ 1??) once upon a time - I think we could do with a couple of reminders Stan if you're up for it??
Swifty - We've a CAT 318 & 320 both of the "rubber duck" variety - never liked these at all it's like being at sea when you get a nod on! Much prefer tracks.........
My mate at KDC he's only been there since Jan 09 coming to think of it, he was with EDS before that.
A few moons ago I was working with a bloke who was a seasoned mobile crane driver but had never been on a navvie. He talked the RB driver into letting him swing the ball and he promptly sailed it through a second floor window and out the opposite side wrapping the ball round a lampost........muggins here spent the best part of 3 hours trying to cut it all free...........the moral of the story is that there's drivers and then there's screwdrivers!
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bob hulin
" its going leg it "
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Posted - 01/08/2009 : 22:01
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bob hulin
" its going leg it "
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Posted - 01/08/2009 : 22:11
 i love this card.
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Posted - 01/08/2009 : 22:45
While we are off "Jacks", i'm sure Vic. would remember Connel & Finnegan, worked out of Hyde, i think they used a Rushton Burcyrus lattice jib crane in their endevours ?
"You can only make as well as you can measure"
Joseph Whitworth
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victorjack
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Posted - 01/08/2009 : 23:15
Thanks Alan Mac for you kind response to my post . You are quite right and one must not get disheartened. I have friends still, I can trust and I really appreciate your support. Stanley is quite remarkable and indefatigable and he will not be denied whatever the challenge before him.
Bodger.. I remember Connell & Finnegan being based at Wharth St. in Dukinfield for years. They perhaps left there for Hyde of course at sometime. They certainly dominated the demolition scene in those years I remember of that company.
Cheers...Vic.
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