Roofers working on a cottage over the cafe where I had breakfast.
One of them called down to his mate at the kerbside for a different hammer, and the guy just threw it, underarm, the entire height of the two storey structure and roof, where his mate snatched it out of the air.
I was impressed by this feat
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As one roofer said to me it's the best job in the world on a warm sunny day working on a rural roof with a beautiful view but an awful job on a cold wet February day working on a suburban house with no view.
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Feels like a lot of outdoor jobs. Enjoyment dependant on weather and locale
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I've never climbed up any further than the gutter. Scared.
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You don't see many old roofers is all I'm saying.
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Fred Dibnah.
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Presumably by the time you are old you have made enough to retire or run the company and have other people going up the ladders
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Lead chap who did my roof was well into his 50's and still going strong. I helped them strip the tiles off the roof and a week of that nearly killed my weak office worker body.
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I was friends with a roofer many years ago. I think they're all a little touched in the head and you certainly wouldn't pick a fight with one of them.
That and tower crane drivers, I've met a few and they all clearly had drinking problems but is there anything worse than climbing a 100ft ladder every morning? (both jobs are astoundingly well paid).
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Yeah, had a new roof put on over winter. The conditions were pretty bleak. They're tough lads, all of them under 30 though.
Scaffolders are the apex. Someone gave our scaffolders a gob full when they'd (politely and reasonably) asked them if they'd move their car so they could unload their truck. The guy in the car had underestimated the situation and his role in it. I intervened like a police negotiator. You do NOT argue with scaffolders.
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Roofers are all wierd.
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I reckon science will eventually show that scaffolders are a different species. Always amazed by their lack of regard for their own safety including the approach of "I have to wear this safety harness but nothing says I actually need to attach it to anything so I won't".
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scaffolders are famous among all trades for marching to the beat of their own drum, naming their price and taking no shit
most other tradesmen think they’re weirdos, although quite hard weirdos so they steer clear
it’s odd that they get away with this, because scaffolding doesn’t really look like a closed shop with high barriers to entry, cf say being an electrician, which is the thinking man’s trade
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Roofers generate many large bodily injury claims with graphic descriptions.
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Never has a trade been so choc full of charlatans, crooks, thieves and wastrels as roofing (even for the building game). They know that the client can’t check or generally even see the work themselves and that by the time any problems manifest themselves they’ll be long gone.
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The weird thing is all the roofers I've ever met are right fat bastards. Particularly the lad who thought it a good idea to stand on the top slats of the fence between us and our neighbours smashing the top 4 of them when they were completely unsurprisingly unable to withstand his not inconsiderable tonnage. Good lads though.
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One of mine had a fine line in awful jokes such as:
What do you call a monkey in a minefield?
Baboom!
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Had a roofer in recently to do some leadwork. Name of Warren. Tattoos up to his jaw. Good bloke.
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I wouldn't totally object to doing this. Incredible views from your "office".
The main thing that would worry me would be making sure I didn't inadvertently crush the fellas a hundred feet below with my huge swinging tackle.
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who the fvck has disliked my OP fgs
some of you people should f u c k o f f a n d d i e
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As one roofer said to me it's the best job in the world on a warm sunny day working on a rural roof with a beautiful view but an awful job on a cold wet February day working on a suburban house with no view.
Heh.
"I mean, you've been as high as it's possible to go."
"Well, yeah, I suppose I have."
"And you've been as low as it's possible to get."
"Yeah. Yeah, I have."
"And what's it like when you're up that high?"
"Ah, it's incredible."
"And what's it like when you're down that low?"
"Ah, it's terrible. It's horrible."
"And, uh, what's it like when you're in the middle?"
"It's, uh, y'know... it's fine."
"Wow."
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Sorry, thought it said "Rofing,..."
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I know a guy who's a roofer in his early 40s. Lovely bloke, though more of a man's man (think he expects his dinner ready when he gets home, but is a good husband and father). He largely fell into it having left school with few qualifications but now has his own firm and does well out of it. His views on the job are all weather-dependent, but he says one benefit of it vs other tradey jobs is you can largely keep out of the client's way (cos most of them don't want to join you on the roof!)
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