Not for the faint-heated if you don't like heights - Steelplejack here earning every penny of his fee! A few glimpses of the Trent and Mersey canal and parts of Lostock Works
I used to have a clear view of these chimneys from my bedroom window as a kid, used to love the sight of them. I was only 5 years old when this was filmed. Sadly they are no longer there and the plot they were on is now being turned in to a modern incinerator which looks horrendous.
This Scot has my complete admiration. I can't even imagine how I could do what he does for a living. Hope he is well paid. Is the brickwork bad? Just pop up and have a look for your self. I'll take you at your word!
Really hard to watch. Like I can feel the fear in my knees feels like when you bite something really cold n it hurts your teeth. How tf are these guys so trusting of that ladder and how it's attached, and themselves. Unbelievable. Makes me really grateful for the ground
Pointing (no pun intended) out all the flaws in the very thing your ladder is attached to..... you must have trouble walking with such large stones. You guys are on another level all together.
If you hear his command of the english language terms of his trade you'll know hes not got the intellect to worry about it at all. He's a Scottish red neck with his brain painted in heat resistant paint and requires pointing in the right direction before he falls off the feckin top two courses
Well done lads reminds me of my days at Santon steeplejack We used to scare the shift out of engineers with our reports Nice to see steeplejack working as they did pre 2005 regulations
Cricket. I didn't realise just how much up draft these buggars create! How these guys do this I just don't know.I have a good head for heights but this I watch glad to be sitting down on Terra firma.!
@@stevewoodward7850 You attach the last ladder to the former and stake against the chimney within arms length of the top of the former. Then proceed to climb and repeat as you climb.
I was on site when this was going on and the site foreman in charge was asking the steeple jacks about the condition of the chimney, so they said to him come up and have a look for yourself, they were gob smacked when he said "yeah no problem" and up he went
Bugger that..i would sooner go down 300ft in a coal shaft than this...i can do scissors and pickers but not this..different discipline altogether..tons of respect for you guys.
As ye can see at the 300 foot level where my ladder is attached to, the mortar is in poor condition and the brickwork is very loooooooooooooooooooooooo…!
Sad to hear this chimney is no longer standing, hard to imagine the work that must have been undertaken to maintain the thousands of chimneys we once had in our nation and the output we had as a nation as a result of the works that the chimneys were for. We owe our forebears so much, I wish we could renew that old national spirit we once had. I feel like in the last decades we have squandered and wasted what was given to us, our nation betrayed by its political leaders.
