Did they just break a stay to show us? True legends

I broke a stay once when I was learning and it can give you a massive fright.

I was at my practice night once and I didn't know that the stay was cracked and i had bumped it a few times and when i set the bell after we had finished, i started tieing the tail end up and the stay gave way and when up all the way to the belfry from the ground floor of the church. i am okay now but it is so danm frightening!!!!

my fav church is near my home town its a classic church style has 5 bells, 1 6 foot 4 other 2,3 foot i like to ring these bells but also am scared that the stay would break i had a nightmare about it once thankfully it was a bad dream.😌

I did exactly this last week on my fourth visit. Took everyone by surprise, most of all me! Managed to let go before I took flight!

The bell Will Never stay forever, it will swing forever

Ringer loses control-Stay breaks-Bell flies out of control. 😮😮😮😮

Dude that creeped me out!

The bit attached to the headstock was a lot shorter when I broke one last night

York Minster has "Hastings" stays- wood with a metal tip. Neverhad this happen to me thank god, but i did have a clock hammer slip and fall into the spokes.... the old clacker valve twitched then I can tell you!

and this is why you have to use maas rowe digital chime unit or verdin digital chime unit to avoid damaging the wood of stay or damaging the rope at all costs.

You don't have to be so beefy pulling the rope its all about balancing

the bell in crazy

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Now, as a curious outsider to this seemingly wonderful and fascinating hobby, would it be the case that the stay breaking was a complete set up just for the film? Looks to me like it was made of grainy pine. Perhaps the original one was unbolted and switched with this softwood specimen, on which the camera shot was deliberately focused. Being filmed in the presence of actual ringers, I doubt any deliberate damage to the original parts occurred.

Why was this so scary for me back in the day?

I did this at Drumbo Church once, on the 4 cwt treble... I had rung the tenor before that, so I think I pulled too hard, and the sally came down too fast for me to react to...

You need that thing to stop the bell otherwise it’ll be dangerous for the bell to be spinning up and up and up

@WrongAndHome Nobody rang it up wrong. If a bell goes over when a stay breaks, the clapper is going to be on the wrong side... think about it!

I broke the stay tonight and feel pretty crummy about it, managed to somehow hold the bell though and it was rung down safely.