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Chimney felling is the practice of demolishing or "felling" a chimney
Chimney

A chimney is a structure for venting hot flue gases or smoke from a boiler, stove, furnace or fireplace to the outside Earth's atmosphere. Chimneys are typically vertical, or as near as possible to vertical, to ensure that the gases flow smoothly, drawing air into the combustion in what is known as the stack effect....
 stack. The practice is considered by some to be a dying art. Modern health and safety rules now largely prohibit the practice in industrialized areas; the current technique is to pack explosives around the base of the chimney.

The UK's Fred Dibnah
Fred Dibnah

Fred Dibnah Order of the British Empire , born in Bolton, Lancashire, was an English steeplejack, engineer and eccentricity who became a television personality, a cult figure and, latterly, a national institution....
, a steeplejack
Steeplejack

A steeplejack is a trade who is prepared to scale tall buildings and in particular church steeple s to carry out general repairs.Britain's most famous steeplejack was Fred Dibnah, who became a television presenter and minor celebrity as a result of his craft....
, became a celebrity for his sensationalized technique of chimney felling; lighting a large fire in the bottom of a stack and watching the chimney belching smoke as its last act was ideal pyrotechnics
Pyrotechnics

Pyrotechnics is the science of materials capable of undergoing self-contained and self-sustained exothermic chemical reactions for the production of heat, light, gas, smoke and/or sound....
 for television.








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Chimney felling is the practice of demolishing or "felling" a chimney
Chimney

A chimney is a structure for venting hot flue gases or smoke from a boiler, stove, furnace or fireplace to the outside Earth's atmosphere. Chimneys are typically vertical, or as near as possible to vertical, to ensure that the gases flow smoothly, drawing air into the combustion in what is known as the stack effect....
 stack. The practice is considered by some to be a dying art. Modern health and safety rules now largely prohibit the practice in industrialized areas; the current technique is to pack explosives around the base of the chimney.

The UK's Fred Dibnah
Fred Dibnah

Fred Dibnah Order of the British Empire , born in Bolton, Lancashire, was an English steeplejack, engineer and eccentricity who became a television personality, a cult figure and, latterly, a national institution....
, a steeplejack
Steeplejack

A steeplejack is a trade who is prepared to scale tall buildings and in particular church steeple s to carry out general repairs.Britain's most famous steeplejack was Fred Dibnah, who became a television presenter and minor celebrity as a result of his craft....
, became a celebrity for his sensationalized technique of chimney felling; lighting a large fire in the bottom of a stack and watching the chimney belching smoke as its last act was ideal pyrotechnics
Pyrotechnics

Pyrotechnics is the science of materials capable of undergoing self-contained and self-sustained exothermic chemical reactions for the production of heat, light, gas, smoke and/or sound....
 for television.

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