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The short video shows jumping sheet and hook ladder training sessions in 1928 at the London Fire Brigade Training Centre at Southwark (sadly currently being knocked down).
When I joined the LFB 42 years ago, the jumping sheet had gone, but we still had hook ladders. They were used to climb from floor to floor externally and the height accessible was only limited to the users strength
They were 13ft long and 10 inches wide. made from ash, the strings would bend as you leaned out, but by and large, they rarely snapped unless dropped
Sadly they were scrapped, partly for H&S reasons and quite rightly. I climbed over an 80ft drill tower and down the other side. Getting on the ladder was hideously dangerous (see photo) as one gust of wind and you are dead. There were no safety lines
LFB Training 1928 https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=349802649007733
A one man drill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_UfHJ2-zPQ
A parapet mount, balancing precariously with no safety line
Fire Service Hook Ladders and H&S
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Terrifying just watching let alone having to climb these things. As for jumping into a sheet!!
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I found this on youtube too. Clearly the ladders were not restricted to the UK, this is a 1969 Competition between Eastern Block nations Fire Services....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktzUAK6fvZQ
Note the old 'turn upside down and shake' extinguishers too !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktzUAK6fvZQ
Note the old 'turn upside down and shake' extinguishers too !
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No fear!
Quite a skill though. Get it wrong, disaster, get it right and save lives. Amazing people.
Quite a skill though. Get it wrong, disaster, get it right and save lives. Amazing people.
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Have you ever seen ladder racing?
I saw it once on you-tube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XhgeQMKir8
I know its not the work place but those guys have no fear and incredibly fast hands and feet
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I saw it once on you-tube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XhgeQMKir8
I know its not the work place but those guys have no fear and incredibly fast hands and feet
Will
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