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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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colsack
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Posted - 25/11/2009 : 10:28
Bodger, these old articles your posting are great, if you can lay your hands "popular mechanics" from April 1951 theres a good four page article and some good pics of steeplejacks erecting and maintaning antennas on sky skrapers. Any chance you could post it on the site?
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Bodger
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Posted - 25/11/2009 : 13:08
Colsack, anything to oblige, pgs 112>
http://books.google.ie/books?id=AdkDAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=magazine_serial:WNkDAAAAMBAJ&lr=&rview=1#v=onepage&q=&f=true
Tizer, straight from Dan Dare a " Capacitron" to preserve food, what happened to it ?, pgs. 97>
Tom, check out the ad. on top left of page 26, how to mount birds & animals for a hobby, bet you never new you could make money out of fun ?
"You can only make as well as you can measure"
Joseph Whitworth
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Stanley
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Posted - 25/11/2009 : 16:43
Bodger, don't get him going about stuffing and mounting birds!
Stanley Challenger Graham
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swifty
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Posted - 25/11/2009 : 19:26
bodger the first fox i ever killed i had stuffed, a friend in scotland did it still have it upstairs wife dont like it so its in girls room, tom im starting woodnnook stack at weekend ,bouught myself a new ingersoll rand ir 12 breaker , compressor on tranny gonna ,pick gez up and away taylor can still pay you and mr w we dont care,,, taylors to soft to let us drop it hes scared  ,,
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bob hulin
" its going leg it "
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Posted - 25/11/2009 : 21:38
 Swifty, i'll Drop the Woodnock chimney for a Tenner. no problem. 
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bob hulin
" its going leg it "
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Posted - 25/11/2009 : 22:05
 did you know peter o' Toole worked as a steeplejack in 1953. he jacked it and went to R.A.D.A.. I bet he was Scared.
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Stanley
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Posted - 26/11/2009 : 06:47
In his greatest role as the Invisible Man!
Stanley Challenger Graham
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DickTurnip
I stink of Marmite!!!!!!!!
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Posted - 26/11/2009 : 08:07
Bob Hoskins was a jack in his early days too. Never got much work done though as its good to talk!..Think Roy "Chubby" Brown was a jack too. Bet he was a laugh on a stack.
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Stanley
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Posted - 26/11/2009 : 09:32
Speaking of comedians on stacks. Here's Young Tom in the days when his beard was black working on Bancroft stack with Peter Tatham in 1981.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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colsack
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Posted - 26/11/2009 : 10:06
Thanks for that Bodger.
Brian Blessed was a jack as well.
So was i
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swifty
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Posted - 26/11/2009 : 19:42
bob its a date what time you want pickin up he he  and you can have time and half for that rate
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TOM PHILLIPS
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Posted - 26/11/2009 : 21:43
Dont need any encouragement when it comes to stuffing and mounting birds,think i can still remember what to do,
Swifty,did you dress the fox up in a gimp mask,hehe,good luck with woodnook,bit of poetry there,hehe..
Bob,i think Peter on the Tooles did about 2 weeks,think he got sacked for wearing tights and carrying a scull round with him ,
nice pictures Stanley,timber batons were an article....FD put a load of bands on when he did it last,a guy called ?Warner was in the tackle and Eddie Chattwood was pulling them up[ to him,Warner said he wanted all the bands tied on the left hand side of each section,hehe,dont know how you find the left hand side of a perfectly simetrical object...
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Bodger
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Posted - 26/11/2009 : 22:07
How about a bath as you come down the stack ?, pg 374
http://books.google.ie/books?id=8N0DAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=&f=true
Chimney 2 miles long, pg. 409
http://books.google.ie/books?id=8N0DAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=&f=true
"You can only make as well as you can measure"
Joseph Whitworth
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TOM PHILLIPS
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Posted - 26/11/2009 : 22:21
Good stuff Bodge,Custodis built a chimney with a water tank half way up it in London,i'll find the picture,bob posted it ages ago,thats some flue,2 miles,theres still one or two in the Rossendale valley and nearby that are like that,Helmshore museum chimney's one but its not that long.
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TOM PHILLIPS
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Posted - 26/11/2009 : 22:23
"Work,the curse of the drinking class" |
Steeplejacks Corner Part Four
