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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 - 07/04/2009 : 09:59
Two pics courtesy of Roy Prenton at Barlick and Earby Times.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Bradders
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Posted - 07/04/2009 : 12:07
TOM ......On the Utube footage, was that a shock wave when the change went off,?
Or the person holding the camera jumping "out of their skin" !
Think it was the former...........
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Stanley
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Posted - 07/04/2009 : 16:52
Bit of both I think. I once tried snapping a big charge going off in a slate quarry and had the same problem.
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Stanley
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Posted - 07/04/2009 : 16:56
See what I mean? Sharp but camera shake. It was a bigger charge than it looked. We were showered with lups of green slate as big as your head!
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victorjack
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Posted - 07/04/2009 : 18:05
Terrific Picture and action scenes on the felling job Tom. The big chaps stood at the base surrounded by the minnows on the Walsden job could well have been navvie types brought in for the cutting of the base and propping. The lesser figures looked to me as the climbers?
Good stuff Tom.
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Bobcat
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Posted - 07/04/2009 : 22:15
hi guys
although not a steeplejack myself i found this site very interesting, loved all the storys and photos, Great stuff
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Posted - 07/04/2009 : 22:30
Bradders i think the cameraman shot out of his skin who did the youtube vid,hehe,Stanley i think you actually photographed some kind of sonic boom like you see jet fighters fly through when they hit a certain speed,wouldn't a camera shake cause other distortions in the photo??
Vic,I think those little guys did what the big fellas told 'em,hehe...Still dont think Smith caught a madman by the ankle on the top of a chimney when he tried to jump off,its hard enough trying to catch a falling lashing, .
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Posted - 07/04/2009 : 22:35
Hi there Bobcat..Glad you like it all,I skimmed a ceiling at home the other week ,my shoulder still hurts and iam still finding plaster down the back of my pants,hehe, ...
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Posted - 07/04/2009 : 22:41
Just like the image I was trying to portray in my poem
Sue
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victorjack
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Posted - 07/04/2009 : 22:58
Hi Bobcat,
Good to have you aboard. We did not do the job for money that is for sure. Bill Larkins the great London Steeplejack who worked on Nelson's column and Big Ben years ago said this on the trade we followed. "The earliest steeplejacks of which there was and record seem to have evolved a mehod of making money which has so far escaped the notice of theie successors, myself included" Truer words were never said.
Vic
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Bobcat
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Posted - 08/04/2009 : 00:24
hi vic, hi tom
don't supose any of you lads have ever worked on the crooked spire in chesterfield?
it's only a couple of miles from me, if so any pictures from the top? 
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Posted - 08/04/2009 : 02:47
Bobcat,
Ronnie Bamford worked on the crooked spire at chesterfield a couple of times in the late 1950s and early sixties. I remember going with him on one of the jobs.
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Stanley
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Posted - 08/04/2009 : 07:31
Welcome Bobcat. Have you read the previous archived SC topics as well?
Tom, definitely camera shake caused by the concussion. They had made a bugger of their first attempt to drop the face and used plenty of explosive the second time because they had opened a crack and couldn't confine the blast. What they should have done was drill agin 4 feet back and do the job properly. Not the most expert shot-firing I have ever seen.
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Bobcat
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Posted - 08/04/2009 : 16:35
hi stanley
ye, i've been reading alot from the old topics over the last few days, did mrs d ever finish her book? lol
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bob hulin
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Posted - 08/04/2009 : 17:28
 
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Steeplejacks Corner Part Four
