chuckey
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Heres another one:- Jackdaws once built a nest in the chimney pot on our 5" diam flue liner from a gas boiler. Basically the boiler, sort of stopped burning so well, a little feeble flame. .. So I cut through the nice white flue pipe, whipped out a section, cut down the bristles on my drain rod set and started. After filling 5 sacks of twigs, bits of paper and plastic, some of which I recognised. I thought I had done a good job. Reassembled the flue pipe and set the boiler off. After a few minutes it made a noise like a jet air liner, and bits of red hot charcoal could be seen exiting the bottom of the boiler. I figured once the ignition source had been burnt up it would be OK which it was after a couple of minutes. A very impressive noise though. I fitted a guard over the flue, but you could hear the jackdaws squalking next spring as they tried to make a nest on the wire dome.
Tale #2, Sunday lunch time in about 1953, family sitting down to Sunday lunch, the front door bell rings and there is a Fireman, "Is your house on fire", he enquires, "Er, don't think so" says my Father. Dad and fireman inspect a crack in the hall's wall and agree because of the very small amount of smoke getting through it was OK. When we went out front, there was a complete circus, two fire engines and loads of onlookers, next door was having a chimney stack fire being put out. We went back inside to finish our roast lunch.
Frank
Tale #2, Sunday lunch time in about 1953, family sitting down to Sunday lunch, the front door bell rings and there is a Fireman, "Is your house on fire", he enquires, "Er, don't think so" says my Father. Dad and fireman inspect a crack in the hall's wall and agree because of the very small amount of smoke getting through it was OK. When we went out front, there was a complete circus, two fire engines and loads of onlookers, next door was having a chimney stack fire being put out. We went back inside to finish our roast lunch.
Frank