Demolition - and demolition is DIY related

[ARW]

Just a heads up for those that might be interested

Sunday 8pm BBC2

[Andy Burns]

"attempts to bring down the cooling towers", did they have problems?

[Mr Pounder Esquire]

Shirley a man has better things to do on a Sunday evening than watch dumb dumb television?

[ARW]

How do you know that it is dumb television?

[Mr Pounder Esquire]

Because apart from the news can't remember seeing any intelligent television. I'll stand corrected if need be.

[philipuk]

The news really isn't intelligent tv these days.

Philip

[spuorgelgoog]

Gotta do something while the girlfriend's doing the ironing.

Owain

[Brian-Gaff]

?Well, the point is that demolition is quite good fun to watch of course. Quest occasionally have series about it. The biggest problem for many is the fact that some structures were not built exactly to the available plans and so are either stronger or weaker in certain places than they ought to be, resulting in things falling the wrong way or just becoming unstable and dangerous but not coming down completely. Brian

[Mr Pounder Esquire]

It's as good as it gets.

[michael adams]

Fred wouldn't have had any problem. Chop a hole out of the bottom with a kango, prop it up with sawn up telegraph poles, surround the telegraph poles with old tyres, sling a couple of cans of petrol over the lot and get the wife to set fire to it with a bit of rolled up newspaper.

michael adams

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[whisky-dave]

Yep and if you have better things to do it's a good idea to know it's on so you can record it or use catch-up TV.

[tony sayer]

In article , michael adams scribeth thus

For those who don't know or remember who Fred was;)

Enjoy...

[Mr Pounder Esquire]

I don't know how to do that, and I'm not interested in finding out.

[Muddymike]

But surely television is a medium for expanding ones knowledge, You could even switch on the subtitles and improve ones spelling!

Mike

[F]

Then run away from the falling bricks shouting 'Did yer like tha?'

A real character, with real skills, sadly missed.

[ARW]

Not that I am aware of. Nothing was mentioned in the news.

Having seen a couple of cooling towers destroyed I have to say that it is good fun watching them fall (and a bit sad)

[Mr Pounder Esquire]

Sad, yes. Less of a blot on the landscape, certainly.

[DJC]

The result was OK, preview clip here:

I grew up looking out of my bedroom window at the cooling towers at Enfield. And watched them come down with a bang in the 70s.

[ARW]

Beautiful structures.

And I was there to fix a promlem in the building on the right.

Who can spot the failure on this picture? I spotted it during an electrical inspection

[ARW]

H&S would now have a fit:-)

I had to supply a RAMS and wear safety boots, hi-viz and a hard hat to change a fused spur the other day for a hand drier in the gents. So that was a permit to work and an electrical permit to work (plus the visitor;s pass and induction). Thank f*ck I did not need the step ladders or it would have been a permit to work at heights. Use an angle grider and it's a hot works permit.

Plus another couple of forms to sign as I needed a swipe card and a set of keys for the plant room.