In order to stop the council putting another statutory notice on my building to remove some loose slates they have now decided are a hazard that need urgent action despite it being 2 months sine I told them about it I got Bikepawl to help me abseil off he roof to pick them up

I hate heights. Nearly shit myself.

That’s close enough to the edge by paul.newman4279, on Flickr

Terra Firma by paul.newman4279, on Flickr

top photo’s fairly good shitting posture as well – at least it would have cleared the building!

No helmet? 😯

So that’s what happened to Bagpuss!!! His tail, turned into a rope 🙁

that sentence is hard to read

Better you didn’t use your helmet or you might have felt so safe that you wouldn’t have bothered with the rope.

What tyres for that little trail in th garden below?

What no rain …!!!

That 2nd pic was taken on a flat roof with the camera at an angle 😀

No way could I ever feel safe on there. Two ropes – one safety rope on an automatic device thingy that locks off by itself and is being tended by a experienced climber and one rope with an ordinary ab device and I still shit myself big time.

flippinheckler – Member

That 2nd pic was taken on a flat roof with the camera at an angle

Indeed – thats me clinging to the flat roof in relief at being back on it

Did you shite yourself? 😆

That 2nd pic was taken on a flat roof with the camera at an angle

Hence the title.

one safety rope on an automatic device thingy that locks off by itself and is being tended by a experienced climber

It’s a Gri-gri, anchored to a static rope by the looks of it. I reviewed the pictures to see if you were going to die or not. (-:

😳

“After placing surface to air missiles on the roof TJ absails back to his underground lair………”

🙂

haha well done. I had to do that once and similarly found it pant filling and it wasn’t even a proper Burghy height roof.

Actually itstig there was an antiaircraft gun on the roof in the war

I do get worried when I see things like that. How many H&S regs were broken? I’ve seen too many amateurs come croppers in situations like that, and it’s not pretty.
I’d dread to think what would happen if everyone decided it would be a good idea to abseil down their roofs. I’m gald you got off safely.

FFS I used to do roof repairs, I would’ve done that without any rope.

Did the loose/missing ones get replaced?

How many H&S regs were broken?

about as many as when any climber goes climbing perhaps? 🙄

Is that the Olympic missile site?

Nice one TJ.

Bruneep – its dodgier than it looks – its a dead fall off the edge and a lot of loose slates – I didn’t replace them – I didn’t have any slates to do so but its now safe as in no slates are going to fall on anyone below

davidjones No H&S regs were broken – its my roof. A very experienced climber controlling the situation ( not me). ab rope and safety rope separately tied off to parts of the roof that ain’t gonna shift. perfectly safe. Far safer than most rock climbing where you would only have a single rope.

It’s funny how even though logically you know that you are safe with two ropes and a harness – your head doesn’t always go for it. It makes me uncomfortable just to look at that but I know ‘real’ climbers wouldn’t have a problem 🙁

TJ: I hate heights. Nearly shit myself.

TJ: A very experienced climber controlling the situation

that but I know ‘real’ climbers wouldn’t have a problem

Yes they would 😉

TJ
A very experienced climber controlling the situation ( not me).

No way would I have set it up and done it myself but I trust that man with my life – I have done on the mountains as well.

Well done TJ. I wouldn’t have done it myself cause I have a heights thing too.
With such unusually sunny weather in Scotland why weren’t you out in some spectacular mountain location instead of your shitty roof!

a lot of loose slates – I didn’t replace them

so now you will have water ingress?

Hasn’t in the 2 months its been like that – the loose slates were all lying in the valley gutter.

Its a scottish roof – sarking boards and felt under the slates not just slats

Obviously it needs a proper repair an I have just got a quote for that – and will have to argue with the council about liability for it. It will be repaired soon. Any leak would not going into my property anyway

Its a scottish roof – sarking boards and felt under the slates not just slats

Yes I know used to slate them. 😉 If I was in the “burger” I would’ve done it for you. Tools still in the shed.

Any leak would not going into my property anyway

😀

If you were so scared why not send the experienced chap to sort out the tiles???

You loved it really!

It makes sense to have the experienced chap controlling the situation and hes a bastid and wants to see me suffer so he made me. thats his payment – watching me suffer

How does that song go?

“Johnny’s in the basement mixing up the medicine, I’m on the rooftops pissing on pedestrians”

I think thats how it goes but I need to hear it on a Maxell cassette

No way could I ever feel safe on there. Two ropes – one safety rope on an automatic device thingy that locks off by itself and is being tended by a experienced climber and one rope with an ordinary ab device and I still shit myself big time.

What a big girl!

It makes sense to have the experienced chap controlling the situation and hes a bastid and wants to see me suffer so he made me. thats his payment – watching me suffer

I’d have paid to watch that!

Done something similar on a tenement roof in Edinburgh many many years ago. No rope, telly aerial needed put back up.. Twin peaked roof so out the roof hatch a few feet onto the peak and in between both peaks to the chimney.
Absolutely one of the stupidest things I have done (ok, top 5) but the reception was great afterwards..

Top tip, take the mastic gun with you next time then the broken ones can be stuck back in…..

Try abbing off ‘soft pro’ – basically a knotted sling jammed in a crack with a very wobbly peg as back-up… one of the least pleasant things I’ve ever done. I would willingly have swapped pretty much everything I owned for a teleporter or even just a bomb-proof anchor. It always makes me laugh when people talk about abseiling as if it’s some sort of adventure sport in its own right. Bleurgh…

Lots of climbers hate abseiling and for good reason, lots of them die that way through gear failure, innatention to detail, anchor failure, rockfall etc.
It is more dangerous that the actual climbing.

Its not the abseiling thats dangerous, or the falling. Its that bastid ground that im scared of…… 😆