YouTube.. what are people watching??

[Bosun11 537]

Reaction videos for me... I love watching them. Usually black rappers listening to Floyd or Rush and getting their minds blown. Some are fake AF but some are very good.

[TOMO 29,085]

13 hours ago, Bosun11 said:

Reaction videos for me... I love watching them. Usually black rappers listening to Floyd or Rush and getting their minds blown. Some are fake AF but some are very good.

There's two yank construction workers....who now think Fred Dibnah is a God....they have done reactions to lots of old film with Fred on....they just can't believe he went up the outside of those chimneys on ladder...

[WILF 50,808]

46 minutes ago, TOMO said:

There's two yank construction workers....who now think Fred Dibnah is a God....they have done reactions to lots of old film with Fred on....they just can't believe he went up the outside of those chimneys on ladder...

Have you watched the ones about how he ladders a chimney and how he builds the scaffold at the top ?…..it’s mind blowing !

Not a bit of me, I get woozy waking over tower bridge ! lol 

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9 minutes ago, WILF said:

Have you watched the ones about how he ladders a chimney and how he builds the scaffold at the top ?…..it’s mind blowing !

Not a bit of me, I get woozy waking over tower bridge ! lol 

Yes mate I have I  think that was the first bit of film them yanks watched....it blew there minds....

That scaffolding at the top....f**k me just two boards all way round....

Funnily enough I did roof top safety course last week...only goes up 10 meters...just playing at it comparison...lol

[WILF 50,808]

18 minutes ago, TOMO said:

Yes mate I have I  think that was the first bit of film them yanks watched....it blew there minds....

That scaffolding at the top....f**k me just two boards all way round....

Funnily enough I did roof top safety course last week...only goes up 10 meters...just playing at it comparison...lol

Many years ago I had a job in one of those cradles, the old type where you pull yourself up and down one end at a time and the rope is gripped by wrapping it back over itself so that’s it’s your weight gripping it and stopping you from falling !!…….swung about all over the show.

This was all in the days before safety lines and harness and all that caper, you just lowered yourself off the edge of a roof into the f***ing thing…..two boards in a wire frame box the “handrail” of which barely reached the cheeks of my arse ! lol 

1 morning of that 10 floors up in North London and I crawled over the edge of that roof like a drowning man, told them “f**k that, I’m not going back in there” and that was my high flying adventure career over ! lol 

 

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15 hours ago, Bosun11 said:

Reaction videos for me... I love watching them. Usually black rappers listening to Floyd or Rush and getting their minds blown. Some are fake AF but some are very good.

I like them , haven’t seen the the Gerry cinnamon at t in the park ?

also there two young black kids watching queen at live aid which is quite humbling as they get right into it 

[TOMO 29,085]

4 minutes ago, WILF said:

Many years ago I had a job in one of those cradles, the old type where you pull yourself up and down one end at a time and the rope is gripped by wrapping it back over itself so that’s it’s your weight gripping it and stopping you from falling !!…….swung about all over the show.

This was all in the days before safety lines and harness and all that caper, you just lowered yourself off the edge of a roof into the f***ing thing…..two boards in a wire frame box the “handrail” of which barely reached the cheeks of my arse ! lol 

1 morning of that 10 floors up in North London and I crawled over the edge of that roof like a drowning man, told them “f**k that, I’m not going back in there” and that was my high flying adventure career over ! lol 

 

Must admit mate I'm not one for hights....I keep telling Ken rabbits don't live on roofs...but he shouts no but pigeons do...now get up there shreck...lol

Few months back we did a job that requires a lorry cherry picker ....now I have the certs to drive the small ones....but this thing is operated by the driver of the truck....he's in the basket with you....

f**k me I shat myself....it went that high...I was so scared I sat in the basket going up and over the roof....he must of thought I was a right pussy.....on top of this he's Polish....the hole time we were up there...not only is he operating this thing he's watching some Polish tv show on his phone....and talking to someone on the phone...never been so scared

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1 minute ago, TOMO said:

Must admit mate I'm not one for hights....I keep telling Ken rabbits don't live on roofs...but he shouts no but pigeons do...now get up there shreck...lol

Few months back we did a job that requires a lorry cherry picker ....now I have the certs to drive the small ones....but this thing is operated by the driver of the truck....he's in the basket with you....

f**k me I shat myself....it went that high...I was so scared I sat in the basket going up and over the roof....he must of thought I was a right pussy.....on top of this he's Polish....the hole time we were up there...not only is he operating this thing he's watching some Polish tv show on his phone....and talking to someone on the phone...never been so scared

I did my iPaf licence for Kenya for a steel fix job that came our way 

It was all on some high end machinery in Basildon then when we got out there I was using a machine held together with tights as a fan belt and hadn’t been greased in 10’years 

wasn’t brilliant 

[NEWKID 29,001]

1 hour ago, WILF said:

Many years ago I had a job in one of those cradles, the old type where you pull yourself up and down one end at a time and the rope is gripped by wrapping it back over itself so that’s it’s your weight gripping it and stopping you from falling !!…….swung about all over the show.

This was all in the days before safety lines and harness and all that caper, you just lowered yourself off the edge of a roof into the f***ing thing…..two boards in a wire frame box the “handrail” of which barely reached the cheeks of my arse ! lol 

1 morning of that 10 floors up in North London and I crawled over the edge of that roof like a drowning man, told them “f**k that, I’m not going back in there” and that was my high flying adventure career over ! lol 

 

 

1 hour ago, TOMO said:

Must admit mate I'm not one for hights....I keep telling Ken rabbits don't live on roofs...but he shouts no but pigeons do...now get up there shreck...lol

Few months back we did a job that requires a lorry cherry picker ....now I have the certs to drive the small ones....but this thing is operated by the driver of the truck....he's in the basket with you....

f**k me I shat myself....it went that high...I was so scared I sat in the basket going up and over the roof....he must of thought I was a right pussy.....on top of this he's Polish....the hole time we were up there...not only is he operating this thing he's watching some Polish tv show on his phone....and talking to someone on the phone...never been so scared

 

1 hour ago, THE STIFFMEISTER said:

I did my iPaf licence for Kenya for a steel fix job that came our way 

It was all on some high end machinery in Basildon then when we got out there I was using a machine held together with tights as a fan belt and hadn’t been greased in 10’years 

wasn’t brilliant 

Comes with the territory in our game, but I'll be honest and say over the last few years I think a load more about heights than I ever did, getting older I suppose.

Been up in all sorts from man baskets on the end of crane (with a twat of an old steel erctor swinging it when we were 100ft in the air for a laugh, not funny) , to the biggest mobile cherry picker you can drive yourself, we needed it to go out and over a building not for the height but the reach.. but being younger me and my brother thought we'd take it in the middle of the car park and take it to the top height (think it was 125ft), the last boom takes you away from the base and then back up, (that had my ass twitching to be honest lol).

Done a few stupid things at height looking back at it at, clipped my brothers harness to a steel when we up in a machine, he didn't know until I took the machine down and left him hanging, wasn't happy... end of the day brother went in the porta loo for a crap, I picked the loo up with a telehandler and put him on top of a double stacked container, about 30ft up, the loo was rocking like f**k, door sprung open and he's sat there shouting like f**k at me, how he didn't fall,out I don't know.lol... he really didn't see the funny side of that one, didn't talk to me for a day or 2 lol

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1 minute ago, NEWKID said:

 

 

Comes with the territory in our game, but I'll be honest and say over the last few years I think a load more about heights than I ever did, getting older I suppose.

Been up in all sorts from man baskets on the end of crane (with a twat of an old steel erctor swinging it when we were 100ft in the air for a laugh, not funny) , to the biggest mobile cherry picker you can drive yourself, we needed it to go out and over a building not for the height but the reach.. but being younger me and my brother thought we'd take it in the middle of the car park and take it to the top height (think it was 125ft), the last boom takes you away from the base and then back up, (that had my ass twitching to be honest lol).

Done a few stupid things at height looking back at it at, clipped my brothers harness to a steel when we up in a machine, he didn't know until I took the machine down and left him hanging, wasn't happy... end of the day brother went in the porta loo for a crap, I picked the loo up with a telehandler and put him on top of a double stacked container, about 30ft up, the loo was rocking like f**k, door sprung open and he's sat there shouting like f**k at me, how he didn't fall,out I don't know.lol... he really didn't see the funny side of that one, didn't talk to me for a day or 2 lol

Amazing ! Lol

Funny enough I also had a job as a kid doing the cladding on two massive old Zepplin hangers in Bedford….but that was all scaffold and standing on the roof of that didn’t bother me at all……other than they used to do explosive testing in them and it took ages to climb down, wait for them to set off the explosion and then climb all the way back up again.

I had a very near miss on that job, was tec screwing sheets to the side about halfway down, heard a noise above me and quickly pulled my arms back to my sides as a sheet of Steel came down like a guillotine.

Never seen two sheds so big in my life.

[WILF 50,808]

@NEWKID This is the hangers mate, enormous !

[NEWKID 29,001]

10 minutes ago, WILF said:

Amazing ! Lol

Funny enough I also had a job as a kid doing the cladding on two massive old Zepplin hangers in Bedford….but that was all scaffold and standing on the roof of that didn’t bother me at all……other than they used to do explosive testing in them and it took ages to climb down, wait for them to set off the explosion and then climb all the way back up again.

I had a very near miss on that job, was tec screwing sheets to the side about halfway down, heard a noise above me and quickly pulled my arms back to my sides as a sheet of Steel came down like a guillotine.

Never seen two sheds so big in my life.

I know an old lad that lost the end of 2 fingers to a sheet that slipped down the wall as we was sorting the bottom sheet, I also dropped a tek gun on his head from 2 lifts up, (old fashioned big heavy gun) put him on his knees, I was pretty young 21 maybe, he was in his late forties then.. f**k he kicked off... I couldn't breathe for laughing.

When we first started on the steels we walked the lot, up over the rafters etc, no machines (lots on farm jobs) looking back we were mad to do it, no nets under the roofs which is compulsory now, the first job I ever had nets on was a massive unit in Plymouth, I fell in the net on the first day lol... taking chances you'd never take if they weren't there.

its a lot safer than it was, and we won't have lads work anywhere without all the safety measures right, a firm close to us has had 2 fatalities on farm jobs through falls, no scaffold or nets to save money... c**ts, I'd rather live in a box than have that on my conscience 

Edited 21 minutes ago by NEWKID

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5 minutes ago, WILF said:

@NEWKID This is the hangers mate, enormous !

Yes mate, they are big fuckers! A couple of those to erect and clad would see me into retirement lol

[THE STIFFMEISTER 17,375]

19 minutes ago, WILF said:

@NEWKID This is the hangers mate, enormous !

That’s where I get kept until times of national emergency