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I wonder why the ladder isn't just built into the chimney permanently, like via ferrata.

• ectopod 4y ago
  What material wouldn't degrade over the lifetime of the chimney?
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  • chrisseaton 4y ago
    Steel... just like via ferrata. These chimneys aren't more than like 150 years old max.
    • ectopod 4y ago
      Maybe. I don't know. I've seen plenty of old fixed ladders that have rusted to uselessness, but they weren't 150 years old.
    • googlryas 4y ago
      Via ferratas are almost always embedded into pure rock, generally limestone, right? Brick and mortar is quite a bit different.
• VectorLock 4y ago
  There would then need to be ladders over most of the surface of the chimney, and with the anchors for the ladder mortared into the chimney, and the whole point of climbing the ladder in the first place is to repoint the mortar, you couldn't rely on the anchors being sound.