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Balls of steel.
« on: 25 June 2022, 19:25:44 »

https://youtu.be/3R3-YwDZrzg

Fred believed in health and safety. He never climbed a 300 ft chimney without his cloth cap. :)
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Re: Balls of steel.
« Reply #1 on: 25 June 2022, 19:45:28 »

it's one thing climbing up ladders over the overhang, but he was the bugger that fitted them.

This one gets me ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W_7uIapoHc .... how to erect a staging around the top of a chimney! Swinging round on a bosun's chair .... no safety line.  ::)
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Re: Balls of steel.
« Reply #2 on: 25 June 2022, 20:55:25 »

I love that man, I think I’ve watched everything he’s ever been filmed doing😂😎 A true trade/Craftsman who really enjoys his job👍
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« Reply #3 on: 25 June 2022, 21:34:37 »

I love that man, I think I’ve watched everything he’s ever been filmed doing😂😎 A true trade/Craftsman who really enjoyed his job till he kicked the bucket 👍
FTFY  ;)
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Re: Balls of steel.
« Reply #4 on: 25 June 2022, 21:59:52 »

Hero’s live forever 🫵
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Re: Balls of steel.
« Reply #5 on: 25 June 2022, 22:12:06 »

Hero’s live forever 🫵
More bad news
Superman is dead too  :(
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Re: Balls of steel.
« Reply #6 on: 25 June 2022, 23:41:17 »

Jesus you’re full of good news today🦉🙉
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Re: Balls of steel.
« Reply #7 on: 26 June 2022, 11:25:15 »

I love that man, I think I’ve watched everything he’s ever been filmed doing😂😎 A true trade/Craftsman who really enjoys his job👍



Thought his programmes were brilliant a true character Indeed .
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Re: Balls of steel.
« Reply #8 on: 26 June 2022, 12:48:07 »

I'm not risk averse and I am happy to put a long ladder against the house and climb on the roof. Fred however, and men like him must have had the 'fear cortex' of his brain removed at birth......or he feels the fear but refuses to give in to it. :y



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Re: Balls of steel.
« Reply #9 on: 26 June 2022, 14:20:36 »

The only thing I ever feared were ladders not heights just ladders, I was determined to overcome this so in 1994 I volunteered to become a retained Firefighter the training cured me now quite happy to shimmy straight up one no problems.
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« Reply #10 on: 26 June 2022, 14:30:06 »

The only thing I ever feared were ladders not heights just ladders, I was determined to overcome this so in 1994 I volunteered to become a retained Firefighter the training cured me now quite happy to shimmy straight up one no problems.

Feel the fear do it anyway.... :y

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Re: Balls of steel.
« Reply #11 on: 27 June 2022, 22:25:26 »

fred gets my utmost respect. a true one off engineer and one we will never ever see again.he had total trust in his laddering and working skills and im sure he once said something along the lines of
"if you fall off you only do it once " he never did thou !
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Re: Balls of steel.
« Reply #12 on: 28 June 2022, 08:57:05 »

As me and an old co-worker, back in the day when I did real work, once said when we were once again strapping 2 ladders together, it doesn't matter if you fall 20' or 60', its gonna hurt.
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« Reply #13 on: 30 June 2022, 13:06:07 »

it's one thing climbing up ladders over the overhang, but he was the bugger that fitted them.

This one gets me ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W_7uIapoHc .... how to erect a staging around the top of a chimney! Swinging round on a bosun's chair .... no safety line.  ::)

Informative video, Mr Beanz. :y

Setting up the ladders and climbing for the overhang is where balls need to be at their biggest. ::)
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Re: Balls of steel.
« Reply #14 on: 01 July 2022, 18:16:56 »

Always loved his programmes,very informative with a sense of humour and he didn't talk down to his "audience" as some presenters tend to do.Also have a copy of his biography on my bookshelves simply titled FRED.
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