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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Debs. on 16 September 2010, 18:55:04
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....well, watch this! (for full queasy-mode; watch in full screen)
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f2d_1284588370
Being a private-pilot; heights don`t normally bother me at all.....but for some reason, the part of this climb where he`s on the outside of the antenna, had me feeling most peculiar. :o
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....well, watch this! (for full queasy-mode; watch in full screen)
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f2d_1284588370
Being a private-pilot; heights don`t normally bother me at all.....but for some reason, the part of this climb where he`s on the outside of the antenna, had me feeling most peculiar. :o
You don't like to talk about it? ;D
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....well, watch this! (for full queasy-mode; watch in full screen)
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f2d_1284588370
Being a private-pilot; heights don`t normally bother me at all.....but for some reason, the part of this climb where he`s on the outside of the antenna, had me feeling most peculiar. :o
Heights have never been an issue for me, considering abseiling off of mountains at 2/2 ::)500 feet onto ledges less than a metre wide, and also doing the hardest climb in the UK unroped (now where is that then?) ::)
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:-[ Sorry for the repost; but the uTube version from last night`s thread has been removed and some might have missed seeing it. ;)
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Wow... that's a fair height :D .
The clip was a snap-shot of time that they spent to get to the top, wonder how long it took them in total ?!.
Hate to think what language they would use if the one tool they needed had been left in the van at the bottom ::) ;D .
Looks the kind of job that they may get paid well for doing due to the danger of working on something like that ?.
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Bloody Hell! :o :o :o :o
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I would have been sobbing like a girl at just getting out the elevator half way up !! My wife is wondering why I am sat here white as a sheet ;D
Darren
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It'd be easy enough for Button Boy Vamps! ;D ;D ;D
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I will have nightmares about that :o
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A 30ft drop will probably kill you but I bet you would die of shock before you hit the ground from that sort of height. I would of course die of shock once I stepped out of the lift ;D
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Crazy.....reminds me of a surreal dream I once had.....you know.... the one when you're falling..... :o :y
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i seem to be fearing everything at the moment :(
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thanks for reposting Debs :y
I'm no good with heights - this video had me in awe and made me feel ill - I wouldn't climb that tower for £1bn :o
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You have to doff ones hat to these chaps :o :y
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....well, watch this! (for full queasy-mode; watch in full screen)
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f2d_1284588370
Being a private-pilot; heights don`t normally bother me at all.....but for some reason, the part of this climb where he`s on the outside of the antenna, had me feeling most peculiar. :o
You don't like to talk about it? ;D
;D I can`t take off if anyone`s watching me! ;D
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I'm also never happier than when a mile high in a plastic aeroplane with no engine, and I love fiddling with radio transmitters, but not at that height, thanks. :o
I tell you what, if I had his job to do I would be taking my parachute. bu66er climbing back down that lot when you're finished!
I bet there's a fair old bit of movement at the top of a structure like that with a couple of blokes climbing it. :o
I wonder what UK H&S would have to say about the cavalier attitude they appear to be displaying towards harnessing themselves to the tower?
Mind you' I don't see a guy with a clipboard and a hi-vis jacket watching them!
Kevin
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Yes i`m bloody terrified of em!!!!!!
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A company I worked for many moons ago did sub contract work for the CEGB. The job consisted of climbing pylons and removing protective grease and applying new grease to the insulation pots. To expand we climbed the pylons which some times were up to 250 feet high. carrying a bucket of parraffin and a big bunch of cloths,then traversed the arm of the tower and in some cases were the pots hung vertical from the arm hung a short ladder along side the pots and cimbed down it to clean off the old grease. The trick was not to get any grease or parraffin on your boots because this made climbing back down very hairy :o
One pylon we worked on had a loose climbing bolt about 60 feet up the leg. It was o.k. but moved when you grabbed it. One of my collegues climbed said pylon and when the bolt moved he froze (not uncommon) he wouln't climb down it took the fire brigade three hours to get him down using the turn table ladder.
Work at power stations was the hairiest one job was to climb concreate A frames some up to 60 feet high and walk along the top of a ten inch wide concreate beam with no safety harness.
I wonder what the HSE would make of it nowadays :-/
Ones thing for sure you wouldn't get me up one of those under the same circumstances nowadays!
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All that to seemingly change a light bulb....When he climbed out, I got that queasy feeling, again when he went up what looked like an antenna, I only hope he was attached to his mate below him who may have been better roped on...
It also bugged me how he seemingly stood on the top, fiddling with a D-Link with both hands....
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Done a fair bit of Radio Tower climbing myself, in my fitter days, mostly in the UK, although my worst memory was climbs in Moscow, Ostankino TV Tower, the towers 540m (1770 ft) in height, scary as hell, not because of the height but due to complete lack of ongoing maintenance of the thing, loose bolts, flexing booms and bits of unsecured heavy duty cable flying around doing its best to squash your fingers or push you off balance. As for the Russian Riggers not even going to go there.
Most Towers or Mast in the UK are no longer Free Climbed, but have a Rail Lock system in place whilst climbing, a sort of vertical Man Safe system, although theres still a few riggers that dont use them because its time consuming, the going up and down bit is the easy part, the dodgy part is then having to free climb outwards to another leg or something then strapping your belt lanyard to something so you can hang off with both hands free to do the required work.
My pet hates were low level Guyed Masts, up to 100ft, they had to be built and climbed whilst building them so your life really was in the hands of the Guy on the ground who was tensioning the Guy Wire as it was being built.
Happy Days :D
Chris.
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Heights don't bother me. Edges do. :)
But I am really, really scared of the physical effort involved. I find the clinb upstairs to go to bed is absolutely exhausting. Think I need to move to a bungalow. :(