health and safety at work

[elsparko]

this man was relatively unknown to me till today, from what ive seen he seems a bit on the mental side

i know there is folk that ---- and moan about health and safety but can see why access equipment is all the rage nowadays

i refuse to go up ladders if the building is above 2 stories nowadays, cant get the staff to hold the bottom , this guy is climbing vertical on ladders that are only secured on the bottom, and held by a metal pin chapped into a wooden block inside a hole (old rawl plugs) until he secures the top pin, no safety rope either

hes either brave or stupid, or both, i realise this was filmed in the 70s/80s but shirley some common sense tells folk that standing near a chimney/tower that is being demolished is potentially not good for your life expectancy?

even if you offered me a million in cash per hour i would not do what he does/did

he only charged 7k for taking down a huge chimney 1 brick at a time from the top down

got to use a shitty scaffold tomorrow for a 2 man job and im dreading that, never mind having to set up on a chimney though.

 

[GB.Kayak]

Watching him scaffold this chimney makes me shudder:

Thanks S, for this 'timeless' classic. If I remember correctly I was first introduced to Fred via Blue Peter in the late '70s or early '80s. I admired his 'northern' grit and determination then, I think that he among others has shaped my 'passion' for former ways of doing things!

Yours Aye

GB

 

[GB.Kayak]

i still think its a bit stupid regardless of how good he is at his job to have been up there on ladders when there is access equipment that would SHIRLEY be easier to work from and much safer

Id need to be paid with a planet twice the size of the sun just to tempt me to go up those ladders

Hey ... Elsparko ... and what would that access equipment be? Who is Shirley again?

Yours Aye

GB