In article , alan_m
scribeth thus
On 09/12/2016 23:00, RayL12 wrote:

It was the 80,s 90,s. Very rare you saw a scaffold on a domestic
job. Only once was I approached by H&S and, as you could then, I told
her to go away.


When I had my stack done in the late 80s scaffolding was erected but
when the brickies turned up they refused to go up until the scaffold
company returned to put in an extra stage of diagonal poles. I went up
to look at the stack before it was removed/rebuilt and it was a lot
worse condition than could be seen from the ground - the only thing
holding it together above the roof line was gravity


and the aerial cable.



I expect Bill Wright could tell a tale or many on that!

When i were a lad i had sometimes to assist the aerial rigger and once
we were removing an old aerial, cut the wire and most of the stack
collapsed and started off on a journey down the steep slate roof taking
a few slates and then dumping itself over a rather nice convertible car
that was right in line;!

The insurance company coughed, tho it wasn't deemed our fault!




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Tony Sayer