Scared of heights?

[alexalex is verified member.]

Imagine if you forgot your screwdriver

Imagine if you got the wrong tower! You don't want to look across and see it next to you!

 

[binny]

Truly scary. I'd wear a chute to do that.

To be logical about it, there is no more danger in being 1700ft up than being 50 ft up, you come off and you are going to die.

Surely more risk from the fatigue factor, climbing ladders is tiring.

There are chimneys where they have two short lengths aluminium ladder, climbing one and then hauling the other up and hooking it above then.......repeat till top. That must be knackering as hell.

 

[Ashton]

1) They should have all the tools they should need at the top attached to the tower.

2) I would never do this without a base jumping parachute.

3) Props to them. Props.

 

[GreyWing]

Surely more risk from the fatigue factor, climbing ladders is tiring.

Nope I meant when people were watching the video from the safety of their monitors, more the illusion of fear that you get from watching that video compared to the thousands out there of someone on a 50ft ledge. When the outcome would be the same.

 

[Rich]

And theres me thinking these people were insane

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqB6GYoCNo0

 

[charliecharlie is verified member.]

tell you what it would have to be near 7 figures to get me up that tower. I might be stupid enough to do it for that but as mentioned before you'd need cutters and a helicopter to get me down

 

[scooter]

It takes a special kind of person to do that job.

A nutter!


Amazing to see they don't bother with the safety hook for half the climb and more amazing to see this is perfectly acceptable within the trade.

Only in America


I wonder how many deaths there has been?
Plenty of time to see your life flash before your eyes, reflect on what you have done, what you could have done and what you should have done, before smiling and thinking it doesn't matter as you are coming back as a bird the next time.

And you'd still have time to spark up a fag.



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[BREWSTERS]

It takes a special kind of person to do that job.

A nutter!


Amazing to see they don't bother with the safety hook for half the climb and more amazing to see this is perfectly acceptable within the trade.

Only in America


I wonder how many deaths there has been?
Plenty of time to see your life flash before your eyes, reflect on what you have done, what you could have done and what you should have done, before smiling and thinking it doesn't matter as you are coming back as a bird the next time.

And you'd still have time to spark up a fag.



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What they should've done is bothered with the safety hook

 

[binny]

What they should've done is bothered with the safety hook

they fall, the lanyard goes taut then the shock absorber pulls out its a big drop...4-5m and they've broken a wrist or ankle dangling in mid-air with a harness cutting off the blood flow to their legs and just 10 minutes to get the harness off before the blood in their legs goes toxic. If they're really unlucky they pass their toolbag in the drop so when they stop it falls past and gives the harness a second bite.

 

[stender]

I wonder how many deaths there has been?
Plenty of time to see your life flash before your eyes, reflect on what you have done, what you could have done and what you should have done, before smiling and thinking it doesn't matter as you are coming back as a bird the next time.

And you'd still have time to spark up a fag.



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His name was billybob smith the 12th.

I'm intrigued as to how they built it? perhaps they had to haul bits up on a rope 30ft below?

 

[stender]

links been taken down now.

 

[retired_member16]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQv-o5Kgbko

 

[GreyWing]

Finally remembered a better one,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2yujvB1l1g

No such thing as Health and Safety in them days, wouldn't catch me pulling that crap on Nelson's Column.

 

[BREWSTERS]

Finally remembered a better one,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2yujvB1l1g

No such thing as Health and Safety in them days, wouldn't catch me pulling that crap on Nelson's Column.

Ah yes, thank heavens for Health and Safety - I remember the seventies, we always had to walk round looking up in case someone dropped off something.

Thankfully now we've got all these rules, that sort of thing doesn't happen and no-one ever gets hurt.