Steeple Jacks Aka Nerves Of Steel (1922)

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Grimethorpe, near Barnsley, South Yorkshire.
Full title reads: "NERVES OF STEEL - are wanted by Steeplejacks when 'banding a 170 ft chimney not forgetting the cameraman."
L/S of men climbing up ladder on large chimney. L/S's of steeplejacks hanging from the chimney supported by a rope. M/S of more men climbing up ladder with camera equipment. L/S of the men reaching wooden platform someway up. L/S of cameraman on platform cranking the camera. L/S's of men working on chimney while thick black smoke billows over them from nearby chimneys.
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@johnpirie3800 2 года назад

Incredible footage!! Wearing a suit and Oxford brogues, as they climbed these stacks. Huge respect to these boys. What nerve.

@insertnamehere5146 3 года назад

i always ensure my best suit is on when i am doing high ladder work

@Mark-lq3sb 3 года назад

and the well dressed worker never forgets his Fedora hat!

@lynwood77 3 года назад

When it's your only clothes you make do.

@Mark-lq3sb 3 года назад

@@lynwood77 "insert name here" and myself were having "fun" Although, my reply of "wearing his Fedora hat" is very true. You can see old footage of men building skyscrapers in New York City in the 1920's and '30s wearing their 'old' Fedora hats. As we all know, ladies & gentlemen didn't go outdoors without a hat for (probably) hundreds of years. As we all know, today that is no longer true. I was born & raised in the U.S. and seeing someone working a 'Blue-Collar' job in a suit and tie is "strange" It may have been the 'way' it was done in the U.K. all those decades ago, but not here in the U.S. - As far as your comment, that's a guess. My guess, he's employed so, he probably has more clothes.

@imchris5000 3 года назад

they were paid well and dressed the part

@Mark-lq3sb 3 года назад

@@imchris5000 I doubt that has anything to do with it. My older brother is a retired Union Iron Worker. The last 10 years he worked, he earned $90,000 U.S. a year. He sure in the hell wasn't wearing a suit on the job. As I stated before, it has to do with the era in time. What is popular to wear at that time.

@TheHorsebox2 3 года назад

"Health and safety? Health and bloody what, lad? Gerrup that chimney...NOW!"

@johnmehaffey9953 3 года назад

Don't forget the brickies who built these chimneys, they were the ones who put it there sometimes in all weathers

@dogdan100 3 года назад

Brickies don't work in the rain.

@gazwilliams9488 3 года назад

Brickies go home if they see a cloud!

@robertdipaola3447 3 года назад

Yeah, but they don't get paid once weather stops work, I use to be a bricklayer, you earned your money!!!

@antman3525 3 года назад

My trades teacher said they lay them from inside. Planks into brickwork. When they finish they just burn all the planks inside. If you slipped inside you just hit alot of planks

@howardelzey2760 3 года назад

@@antman3525 That's correct they built scaffold as they went up. Their job was fairly safe.

@stephenmatura1086 3 года назад

As Fred Dibnah once said, 'one mistake and it's half a day out with the undertaker.'

@sarahcox9284 3 года назад

@Stimpy&Ren Cat ,Fred was a legend.

@AJ-qn6gd 3 года назад

@Stimpy&Ren Cat, you tend to only fall once and it’s at the end of your career.

@doloresmyatt9737 3 года назад

nice comment. but often repeated.

@doloresmyatt9737 3 года назад

@Stimpy&Ren Cat are you really saying Fred got up first thing in the morning and necked 6 pints and drove to a job drunk and then did a full days work, well then I will take my hat off to Fred.

@doloresmyatt9737 3 года назад

@Stimpy&Ren Cat I know, its a good saying and worth repeating every now and again. It still makes me smile.

@ivandasty277 3 года назад

Look at their shoes and clothes , as if they are going to cinema ! Awesome people!

@furphyman 4 года назад

40 years later Fred knocked it down

@ukwoodcarver 4 года назад

David Connelly Love Fred! True legend!

@ronanlough3868 4 года назад

"did ya like that" Rip Fred

@wishfix 4 года назад

And Fred would do that with just 1 man to help him.

@gonyeah45 4 года назад

One slip and it's a half day out with the undertaker

@daisydog1975 4 года назад

Fred would have been pissed up too

@jdogdog8778 3 года назад

Another legend was John Noakes climbing Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square without a harness for a kids TV programme..

@MeaHeaR 3 года назад

Blew Peters

@TheHorsebox2 3 года назад

Yeah, that was something else.

@donovanwray5974 3 года назад

_"...Get down Shep..."_

@bernatkun8069 3 года назад

>for a kids TV programme I'm 99% sure he did that to both mog everyone and prove a point on tape

@MeaHeaR 3 года назад

@@bernatkun8069 intransitive verb. 1 dialectal : to move away : depart -usually used with off or on. 2 chiefly dialectal : to walk slowly and steadily : jog all the men go mogging gloomily along- Ralph Knight.

@thumperjdm 3 года назад

@1:16 Jack #1: "Why are these smoke stacks so tall?" Jack #2: "Because the smoke is...choke, choke...poisonous to inhale."

@paulhomsy2751 3 года назад

The cameraman and the man carrying the camera climbed without a rope. Nowadays even seasoned climbers, except dare devils, would have some form of protection. Kudos to these two especially and all the others climbing that chimney.

@garyfrancis6193 3 года назад

Protection? What’s that mate? Now you get on up there.

@ryderdeyn 2 года назад

@@garyfrancis6193 20yrs ago They'd hang a rope from the top to clip on to but they generally don't bother to attach to it.

@borntoclimb7116 Год назад

@@garyfrancis6193 as a freesolo and Lattice Climber, i love it to climb this structures, in germany we have so many chimneys 250 meters tall

@theonlybuzz1969 2 года назад

It’s amazing that every hing relies on a small steel flat spike called a dog, and you would happen them into the brickwork motor gaps to secure your ladders with rope lashings. These days there are less than before of steeple jacks, highest chimney I was involved with from the ground up with scaffold was 185’ in brierfield mr Burnley, there’s just a fraction of the big pipes shooting in the sky. We had our own famous local steeplejack, Fred Dibnah he was a fantastic and interesting guy to talk with, RIP Fred and all of his brethren.

@jessed1586 2 года назад

Chip Chip Cheerio

@weejim48 3 года назад

These old guys were as tough as old boots & not afraid of anything. 👍👍👍

@BB-or8gi 3 года назад

Old guys? They’re like, in their 30s.

@roeng1368 3 года назад

@@BB-or8gi That was old.........................

@kellygable1668 3 года назад

jeez , my feet and stomach start to tingle just watching this . but i'm from the praries and get dizzy standing on a cigarette rolling paper . true story ! guy i knew was on a scaffold painting a 110 ft tall grain elevator , rcmp came buy and said get down here right now , he was drunk as usual and when he leaned over the edge he fell , he grabbed a rope on his way down and burnt all the skin off his hands and hit the ground in a cloud of dust but otherwise uninjured . told the cop ' was that fast enough for ya ' .

@jamiewulfyr4607 3 года назад

Have you seen Fred Dibnah videos?

@Sunakfilth 3 года назад

Haha

@garyfrancis6193 3 года назад

Sounds like a prairie sttory.

@donohoe71 4 года назад

It scared me just watching! Thanks for posting

@debrapoirier4435 3 года назад

wow my grandfather was a steeple jack in the 20;s and 30;s in fall river,ma i have b&w pics but this is great.................. ty

@robertfurtado1476 3 года назад

That's cool. I'm writing this in Fairhaven, MA.

@brinjoness3386 3 года назад

Make sure you watch some Fred dibnah on youtube, his enthusiasm and knowledge about the industry is infectious, before you know it you will want a coal mine powered by steam engines in your back yard.

@glenmccarthy8482 4 года назад

We are a bunch of light weights these days.

@godislove8740 4 года назад

Come on down.

@godislove8740 4 года назад

I'm a tree surgeon btw. Always looking for lightweights to amuse.

@glenmccarthy8482 4 года назад

Difficult work , your putting on a show for those imprisoned cubicle workers as they waddle of to work.

@stephenyo865 4 года назад

Glen Mccarthy k

@tilerman 3 года назад

@@glenmccarthy8482 Your comment did make me laugh. Im a maintenance contractor and recently, alongside about 40 other men were carrying out building works on a call centre in central London. Our ages ranged from 19 to 67. And all of us, skilled, in shape and strong. And then the 'cubicle' workers came in. Quite sad really. Men and women, mainly 30-50, almost all of them over overweight, huddled over heaters, and i kid you not, some with blankets wrapped round them,despite it not being cold, at their terminals, coffee and biscuits in hand. And come lunchtime, sitting at their terminals yawning gulping coffee to keep them awake and working. Quite an eye opener.

@AdrianH1970 2 года назад

These guys had balls made of granite, total respect to them, just watching that ladder flex as they went up it made me feel queasy.

@benjurqunov Год назад

The chimney flexes too. On a windy day a chimney will flex enough to feel it.

@richard21995 2 года назад

Being terrified of heights I just cannot imagine what it takes to climb up these chimneys, but these guys were prepared too. Total admiration for them.

@davidford2169 Год назад

I could climb up... But I do not think I could climb back down...I would be petrified...

@tensevo 3 года назад

Unless you have done this, you have no idea how hard it is. Legends.

@grahamjordan1040 2 года назад

And guess what I’ll never know 😰

@vordman 2 года назад

I doubt anyone watching this has anything but out and out respect for these men.

@Paulstrickland01 2 года назад

The absolute nonsense our ancestors got up to just to make sure their family didn't starve to death in the winter never ceased to amaze.

@stephenturner6075 2 года назад

Excellent short film. It's fascinating to see workmen wearing boiler suits with freshly polished shoes. A long time before people thought of safety boots and maybe it was considered ignorant or ungentlemanly to wear old boots to work even in manual jobs.

@davidbarnes241 2 года назад

Just remember that they had to look after their work boots and would lovingly dubbin them, as did my father and myself when much younger. Now you can buy waterproof boots and replace them every year, those lasted for many years. I personally enjoyed the various caps and the obvious ganger in the trilby type hat.

@beagle7622 3 года назад

There is a huge smoke stack in Melbourne Aust near the Eastern Freeway. It’s no longer in use. It scares me when I look at it wondering how they built & maintained it.

@Glitch-nr9ct 2 года назад

There's a few of them still here in Baltimore too.

@edwardd9702 2 года назад

That huge smoke stack is the shot tower. A tower that was used for making lead shot.

@beagle7622 2 года назад

@@edwardd9702 Really I had no idea ,I thought it was a smoke stack.but did wonder what it was attached to . I remember the shot tower at what is now Melbourne Central before they wrecked it . It’s a huge solid looking structure.

@ptwotwo2055 2 года назад

we do it in pretty much the same way now 😂😂😂

@garyhuart7042 3 года назад

Not a soy latte or a pair of skinny jeans in sight

@Hollows1997 3 года назад

Bang on. They’d turn in their graves if they could see the state of modern Britain.

@Hollows1997 3 года назад

@@HolidayArt Germany didn’t. We declared war on them... both times.

@TobiasHinz1992 3 года назад

@@Hollows1997 Nd Look how it turned out for you...

@Hollows1997 3 года назад

@@TobiasHinz1992 I’m with you on that, we were allies for hundreds of years before going to war. Hell, even the Kaiser was on board HMS King George V wearing the uniform of the highest available rank in the Royal Navy just over 6 weeks before war. What a shame.

@robertvanderzwan2517 Год назад

These are the guys that build our countries. Your grand fathers ...... Deep respect ... And ashame off generations making a mess the princess and princesses of to day

@CrossPurposes 3 года назад

Imagine climbing wet wooden ladders in those slippy old shoes.

@myview5840 3 года назад

Hob nail boots

@Hondanissanman 3 года назад

Fred dibnah kept up this old tradition 👍.

@robocatful Год назад

I started on the chimneys in 1970 and finished in 1981 then went steel erecting and general rigging, and I have to admit to only being really scared when I got threatened by a very large woman with a strong right hand and then I bloody married her.Ha Ha ,True..

@djstl100 4 года назад

my second jobs as a laborer was climbing up A chiminy like this one.. thought seriously about quitting, that was 30 years ago, now im looking forward to a union pension in a few years

@mrj4990 4 года назад

hell yeah brother

@redrobbo1896 4 года назад

Worldwide Wabbit about 100 bucks a month

@ratrodramblin 4 года назад

1000 a month

@robertelliott968 4 года назад

3500 month

@jimmyc2895 4 года назад

Those men weren't tied off

@gavinmillar7519 4 года назад

Amazing - reminds me of the skyscraper builders in New York!

@rickdaystar477 4 года назад

I climbed one like that in West Texas winds to place air quality sensors at the top in the 70's. I couldn't do it today. Too old now.

@rickdaystar477 4 года назад

@thomas Prior Thank you brother. I don't know that song but I'll look it up and play it. Sounds like you had a run at it for years too. Being I've never been old before it takes getting used to. As a man I always considered my value based on my work, making my own way. My doctor tells me I'm not sick just worn out. Knees shot.. back too. But I'm taking your advice and keeping the old man out. LOL

@godislove8740 4 года назад

@thomas Prior exactly. No pension to look fwd to here.

@geza96 3 года назад

And young men think that are heros down the gym, not a chance. Real men are dying out nowadays, long lost.

@E3ECO 3 года назад

Good on the cameraman. He presumably wasn't used to this kind of work.

@ZXspectrum.. 3 года назад

Fred would have managed on his own after a few cans of Guiness

@elonmust7470 3 года назад

Newcastle

@kanifuker721 3 года назад

"Ay up lad you lookin smart today, you off to funeral?". "Nay lad, I'm off up 200ft chimney to reinforce it".

@jamessavage4366 3 года назад

The the 1

@rancherfarmerguy 3 года назад

He needs a navy suit for war.

@aucourant9998 3 года назад

Kudos to the cameraman filming on that bit of plank.

@stevencoyne4971 3 года назад

Proper Old shooll men great respect to them lads !!

@anthonykidd1963 4 года назад

The palms of my hands are sweating!!!

@anvilbrunner.2013 3 года назад

Actually good for gripping wooden ladders.

@karl9411 3 года назад

When men were men not moisturised, pampered , muscle toned , self indulged hedonists .

@admiralcraddock464 2 года назад

And they died worn out and exhausted from working in atrocious conditions.

@downhilltwofour0082 4 года назад

Then a man named Fred Dibnah came along an single-handedly took about 100 of them down to the ground. Amazing story!

@nyakwarObat 4 года назад

Well....not a biggie really. The real you consumed a whole lot of food for many years to build that body you carry around but it would only take a fraction of a second to shred 1000 like you to pieces, to build is a whole different matter thats where the amazing is at

@nyakwarObat 4 года назад

@Patrick Ancona I'm tempted to think you slow

@fredhall4733 4 года назад

@@nyakwarObat who's calling who slow? Lol

@nyakwarObat 4 года назад

@@fredhall4733 you beyond slow. A lost cause

@letitgrow5060 4 года назад

@@nyakwarObat Fred took some of them down a brick at a time. True British Hero!

@dru370 2 года назад

People that I have to admire , I couldn’t begin to even think about what they do!

@dawud7791 3 года назад

I’ve seen Fred Dibnah, but this is in the 1920’s. Awesome!!

@andystevenson5067 3 года назад

Omg climbing up there and breathing all that other smoke in, Could only IMAGINE what was in the exhaust back in those days lol

@MaverickSeventySeven 3 года назад

First words of that cameraman to his assistant when they got to the top - " I thought you had the can of film?"

@ericwilliams2317 3 года назад

Hold on a minute. No hard hats, no steely boots, no hi viz jackets, no endless Health & Safety paperwork filled in, smoking at the worksite - what were they thinking? Ah, I forgot, these were the days when blokes just got on with the job - before the days when H&S became a lucrative industry in itself, and workers took responsibility for their actions. These boys knew it was dangerous, unlike now, when workers expect all dangers have been removed by somebody else. I was honestly asked once by the H&S girl in the workshop where I'm working "Why does Welding need to be so HOT???" How do you even begin to answer that?

@mikemurray2027 3 года назад

Lots of people died in industrial accidents before the H&SAW Act. Lots of lazy criticism of one of the best laws ever enacted for the benefit of working people in the UK.

@AndreasDuessca 3 года назад

Compare accident and death rates before and after H&SAW and there's your answer.

@TheLucreziia 3 года назад

Yes, let's not forget child labour that the dam unions and governments spoiled with their interfering. Get the children back down the mines and in the factories. No need for health and safety workers are ten a penny and if some of them die in our squalid industries plenty more of the underclass to take their place.

@mikemurray2027 3 года назад

@@TheLucreziia People just sound off about 'health and safety'...it's part of reactionary culture.

@Paul5520 3 года назад

You sound like somebody who doesn’t agree with H&S legislation?!

@gordong6159 3 года назад

All attached with a half clove hitch 🤣 turns out is safer to hold the ladder side while climbing and not the rung... as a window cleaner I’ve missed the rung a few times 🤣

@davidford2169 Год назад

Personally never ever hold the rung if a ladder...ever..always the sides...

@richardgrant7055 2 месяца назад

the "stiles" is the term for the side 'strings' .

@dot2562 Год назад

Casual workers... Suit shoes and hat 👍👌🎩🎩💪💪💪, your man didn't need to go up smoking a feg... Plenty of smoke at the top 😂😂😂

@wakefieldyorkshire 3 года назад

Fred found a way of doing all this type of work totally on his own.

@bretwaldablahblahblah3578 3 года назад

no he didn't, he was a legend but had he no labourer he couldn't work.

@wakefieldyorkshire 3 года назад

@@bretwaldablahblahblah3578 Are we commenting on the same Fred here.

@cooltrades7469 3 года назад

@@wakefieldyorkshire Actually he demolished the things that these guys where consolidating.What they are doing here is not a one man job.And if you speak about that contract that he had to demolish a chimney brick by brick, that was a one time job ( on which he charged hugely as it was an impossibly lenghty job ).Anyway he was a special guy.

@JJamJ 3 года назад

Young lads would never be able to do that today...Not with one hand holding their mobile phone anyway😜

@majorlaff8682 2 года назад

And the other on their latte.

@machinesandthings9641 2 года назад

Gravity feared these men. It was the sheer weight of their balls hitting the ground that convinced gravity to let them be.

@doloresmyatt9737 3 года назад

watching the smoke going over them at some speed they would be coughing and also blinded by it. the smoke would cause the men to be extra careful. i often wondered when watching fred dibnah what other steeple jacks of his era thought of him and his way of doing things, as at that time there would of been a large number of men who were steeple jacks.

@dasy2k1 3 года назад

He was the last of his breed, he would have been barely a nipper when this style work started to die out

@robocatful 3 года назад

I climbed my first chimney in 1969 and worked at it for about 15 years , the methods of working did not change at all until about 1985 when H & S started to make it impossible to do the job safely, although the majority of my chimneys were steel. ....Kudos for Fred for being self taught , although he got quite irate when us cockneys got to work in Lancs..

@markrushton3362 Год назад

Respect 🙏

@zerozilch 2 месяца назад

Takin the ladder to the stairs😊

@silverfox8801 3 года назад

What amazes me is how they managed to haul their huge balls up those chimneys!?

@user-fd1bb2lp6m 2 года назад

I'm doing this kind of work now)))) I live in Russia. sometimes I want to work and find out how this is done in the USA / Canada / Europe. look at the specifics of their work.

@been2all505 3 года назад

The view for the guy on the bottom doesn’t change. LOL

@chriseaton7887 3 года назад

Interesting how they climbed those ladders with balls that big 😂😂

@TheHorsebox2 3 года назад

They slung them over their shoulders.

@chriseaton7887 3 года назад

@@TheHorsebox2 😂😂😂

@sixbells99 10 месяцев назад

What is also amazing is a guy called Fred Dibnah used exactly the same techniques 50 years later! There is a great youtube video of him showing how to put the ladders up, same method as what they are doing here! Also in the 1960s a head of steeplejascks firm said on average 5 or 6 deaths a year, imagine how many it was in those days when they were at the height of building and repairing them (pun intended).

@stevebandit1964 2 года назад

True balls of steel ! 👌

@johnsiders7819 3 года назад

And no fall protection at all that I can see When I have to go up the radio station tower to swap out a light bulb of work on the antenna I’m locked on with 2 separate safety straps plus the full harness ! Those guys were something else !

@RPKGameVids 3 года назад

The olden days.

@chrisfleming5109 3 года назад

Fred would have got on great with these people.

@dasy2k1 3 года назад

For sure, he was born at least 50 years after his time if not more!

@jonny7491 3 года назад

The first six ladder rungs up and see it wobble like that, then it would be down the mines for me.

@donaldmackenzie2686 3 года назад

Banding a chimley. Yeah that's right I said chimley. Anyway, this is what Fred Dibnah aspired to be. He said he was born a hundred years too late. Sadly, for the most part, he had to settle with knocking them down. That was also something to see. Nerves of steel those guys had, nerves of steel.

@johndoe1765 3 года назад

NO HOLLYWOOD GYM SEMI-TYPES HERE ,THESE ARE REAL MEN SERIOUS !

@michaelreeves4552 4 года назад

Wow

@georgeroybooth3335 2 года назад

Makes my willie shrink watching them.

@mervmervalot2296 2 года назад

My hero is Fred dibnah..... These are Fred's hero's 😳

@countryboy4542 5 месяцев назад

Back in 1969 when i was 18 yrs old, a friend & I climbed the Mack Lake Lookout Tower near Mio Michigan. I dont know how tall it was, but the forest looked like green carpet. Young & Dumb

@lauramolony 2 года назад

'Elf' n' Safety would have a field day with this lot if this was filmed today.

@louisep5178 3 года назад

Gosh so brave and dealing with all the pollution too 👍👌🙏

@peterprescott3419 3 года назад

Yes Louise. Even worse - when the chimneys needed sweeping the factories never closed, the fires continued and often the sweeps fainted up on top from gas and fumes and had to be rescued or carried down by one of their mates. Many times there were no built in ladders and they climbed up by driving spikes into the mortar, hanging a board from the spikes - standing on that to reach up and drive higher spikes in, hang the second board from that and so on and so on with both boards until reching the top.

@donkmeister 3 года назад

@@peterprescott3419 You got any pictures of how that works? I'm trying to picture it but I'm not sure how you reach down to get the lower board from the board you've just climbed onto when climbing up, or how you put the higher board onto the lower dogs when climbing down again.

@peterprescott3419 3 года назад

@@donkmeister Sorry - I don't have any pictures of that operation but would imgine that they either had a hook on a short length of rope (kind of like those he fastens the ladders with or a hook on a stick that they took up with them. There's an excellent book titled 'Heroes of everyday Adventure' that describes that and many other late 1800's early 1900's work dangers - printed and published in 1934.

@brucelee-wo5ge 3 года назад

@@peterprescott3419 So they didn't shutdown the chimney operation before maintenance or cleaning? Weren't the bricks hot?

@peterprescott3419 3 года назад

@@brucelee-wo5ge Warm - rather than hot. They were at chimney top and a long way from the actual furnace, and bricks do not refer heat in the sense that metal does. Read my earlier reply to donkmeister - that book is still available from World Books in England or Abe Books world wide. I've just ordered another copy - my previous one was loaned and never came back.

@pavelthedog6939 3 года назад

As a commercial roofer , I've been in similar situations.... looking down never bothered me, it was looking up that made me dizzy and caused butterflies in the stomach .... cant explaine why ....

@admiralcraddock464 2 года назад

Same here. having been in jobs that involved working at height it`s the looking up at passing clouds that makes me feel uneasy

@tomwilkinson392 Год назад

@@admiralcraddock464 I think it’s because you have no reference point in the sky. I have a lifelong fear of heights, but looking down doesn’t disturb me; whereas looking up still makes me light-headed.

@paulwestwell7160 2 года назад

To quote the words of the famous English steeple jack Fred Dibnah… “you fall off and it’s a half a day out with the Undertaker “

@sasskin1 Год назад

love the hard hats dont no if at that high would help

@dpall38 3 года назад

Little did they know it would be black lung from the coal smoke that would do them in.

@stephenrice4554 2 года назад

Take a look at old recordings of engine sheds and engineering factories , the men wore two or three piece suits as long lasting work wear , in the fields was the same , fit for purpose work wear only really came to be used in the 60s

@peterherrington3300 2 года назад

I worked with old boys in construction that bought a "dead man suit" from charity shop on a Friday for the weekend drinking , wore it to work all week then binned it & bought another one. Laying bricks & digging holes in somebody's wedding suit was very odd .

@TheCatBilbo 3 года назад

Man, let's all follow each other so if the guy at the top falls-off he won't miss any of us! Ulp.

@ukbb2632 3 года назад

Makes my feet hurt looking at them.

@SuperPhexx 3 года назад

Well.. at least they got a lot of fresh air up there....

@GreyWingUK 11 месяцев назад

Jeez, I thought Fred was nuts, 50 years earlier there were loads of them wandering around

@southerncross4956 3 года назад

And the owners of those chimneys did not think to or would not shut down the adjacent chimneys(s) that were boiling smoke while these men were risking their lives?

@manchesterexplorer8519 2 года назад

Your either physically fit or not , have a fear of heights or not . Granted I'm just a house painter that climbs ladders but I've hired "green" helpers that panik around 10 feet high just to quit and I've hired kids that will climb a 40 foot ladder and love it . For me I've never had a fear of heights , I was a parents nightmare who at 8 years old would climb 30 feet up into a tree lol . I've been climbing ladders for 25+ years and have never fallen . A lot of it is being able to control fear but a lot of it is being physically strong , coordination and a simple understanding of gravity plus physics . . I could of been a steeplejack if I were born over 100 years ago . These men were highly underpaid !!! In modern times it would cost $10,000+ just to set up the ladders nevermind the repair costs .

@jvs57 Год назад

No wonder Fred Dibnah said that a door at the first place he worked was covered with pictures of dead steeplejacks

@gww5385 2 года назад

If falling doesn't kill you, the smoke fumes will...

@AdamMassacre1981 3 года назад

""I've never fell off a big chimney. You'd only fall off one of them once." Fred Dibnah

@Johnny53kgb-nsa 3 года назад

Working out of a bosun chair, attached to a set of rope falls. Then year's later, it changed to a sky jeanie ( one way, down) , and electric spiders, a cage that was attached to a wire rope, or cable, and even, at times now, to a jlg, a man lift. I've done a lot of high work in my younger day's, but what would have bothered me more here is, that damn pollution your breathing in blowing in your face.

@LarryFogarty 2 года назад

i am not a heights man myself ...when i put a light bulb in at home i have a scaffold around the chair

@stevenfielden8955 3 года назад

All in a day's work.

@darrenhirst9900 10 месяцев назад

The cameraman had balls of steel too so sod the bloody steeple Jacks

@MrUniman609 3 года назад

Strewth! that poor cameraman on the planks, I would be crapping blue lights!

@josephinebennington7247 3 года назад

Up you go...I want to get that on film!

@kellygable1668 3 года назад

blue lites !! ha ha obviously an aussi !

@jorgetexier 3 года назад

En esos años el trabajo era más inseguro y si alguien le ocurria un accidente no le pagan ni un centavo, para que decir los salarios de hambre que recibían en aquellos años. Saludos desde la patagonia chilena

@nigelparker5886 2 года назад

One goes...they all go....down!

@1nodmonkey 3 года назад

Try doing all that whilst wearing a suit

@Lee-radford 2 года назад

And a pint in ye hand🍺

@davidcohen7804 3 года назад

To think there was once thousands of mill and factory chimneys just in Lancashire

@Neil-Aspinall Год назад

The part I don't get is, how come there was not professional permanent ladders installed when the towers were made?

@accountnamewithheld Год назад

Rust, theft, cost, any number of reasons

@Neil-Aspinall Год назад

@@accountnamewithheld Steeple Jacks would have to be the stupidest most dangerous job that insane men have ever done. I bet the bastards didn't earn much more than the average wage of the day?