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Does anyone else have a hard time watching this video?
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The narrator says there's no quick way down if a storm approaches. Well, there is ONE quick way down. You can only do it once, but there's a quick way down.
I thought my head was going to explode along with the rest of my body. I made it to the very end, but OMG! There wasn't a second I didn't want to look away. I couldn't manage to watch it full screen, though. Keeping it the normal window made it a bit more tolerable.
Couldn't take much of the guys working out on the bridge after that.
On the odd chance someone's not seen it, nobody has brought up the great Fred Dibnah. Free climbing a chimney overhang hundreds of feet up, at over 50 years old. Yikes! Contracts out to take them down one brick at a time, by hand. Can't imagine what it takes to swing a hammer all day breaking bricks apart and then climb back down to start over tomorrow.
And, lest we forget, one of the greatest stunts ever executed, Philippe Petit, Invalid Link Removed, walking a wire between the tops of the World Trade Center towers.
iJazz - Missed the bottom step of a ladder years back. Bum foot ever since.
Couldn't take much of the guys working out on the bridge after that.
On the odd chance someone's not seen it, nobody has brought up the great Fred Dibnah. Free climbing a chimney overhang hundreds of feet up, at over 50 years old. Yikes! Contracts out to take them down one brick at a time, by hand. Can't imagine what it takes to swing a hammer all day breaking bricks apart and then climb back down to start over tomorrow.
And, lest we forget, one of the greatest stunts ever executed, Philippe Petit, Invalid Link Removed, walking a wire between the tops of the World Trade Center towers.
iJazz - Missed the bottom step of a ladder years back. Bum foot ever since.
Sketchy s*** right there. I saw the title of the thread and was like "Eh, how bad can it be?" saw the title of the video and was like "Oh...that bad..." but was surprisingly undos turned through the video, made it through no problem. I thought it was kinda cool actually, but it takes balls to do that free climbing, I wonder how many people fall off?
"If a storm blows through, there's no quick way down." jump! They have a pillow or two on the ground, you'll be fine...
"If a storm blows through, there's no quick way down." jump! They have a pillow or two on the ground, you'll be fine...
Why would anything manmade, that is meant to be traversed, be designed so dangerously??
I understand (and am impressed by) skilled workers, but it seems convoluted and unnecessary.. Right? Why would there be progressively terrible climbing conditions as you increase altitude??
I understand (and am impressed by) skilled workers, but it seems convoluted and unnecessary.. Right? Why would there be progressively terrible climbing conditions as you increase altitude??
1SHOT1HIT said:
No ****... I dont care if its 50 lbs extra; its not like it didn't take a ******** of conditioning to climb almost 2000 feet by your own strength. I.E. no matter how 'nerves of steel' anybody is, you dont have the STRENGTH or ENDURANCE to make that climb as your first climb.
And hell, even a small highschool stadium light tower sways enough to make you dizzy
It didn't bother me to watch this, but I know I couldn't do it.
I would imagine that to do this, it would help to be younger, and to be a smaller, lighter person as opposed to a bigger, heavier person.
I wonder if they have trouble buying life insurance?
Mike
I would imagine that to do this, it would help to be younger, and to be a smaller, lighter person as opposed to a bigger, heavier person.
I wonder if they have trouble buying life insurance?
Mike
eddododo said:
I'm just guessing, but, the bulbs they climb the tower to replace will probably soon be replaced in new construction or retrofit by LED tech for which the lifespan is measured in tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of hours. That will minimize the cost of maintaining these structures.
Again, a guess, but if that tower were as large at the top as at the base, it would probably weigh 3 to 7 times what it now does in order to be self-supporting. Cost of such a design would be many times that of what it was to erect this design.
Corporations learn early on that people are expendable. Cheaper to replace an employee than build so one has the comforts of home when doing the job.
iJazz - "I can see for miles and miles"
+1 On the weight problem.
I am also guessing that the majority of the workers only need to go to the tuner. Not to the top.
it's official i am a pussy. i was bragging all day about how i finally grew the nuts to get up on the extension ladder to paint the gables on my house. i was sweatting and shaking the whole time, and it's only about 35 feet up. there must be a seriously short list of candidates for a job like this.
I can handle height's up to a point as far as getting on a ladder and all of that. Flying in jet is no problem either.
But very cramped spaces? I'm TERRIFIED!! About 12 years ago I injured my back and had to go in for an MRI. No problem....I thought. Got there, laid on the table, they wheeled me into that tube and it was all over. I had no idea I had that fear. I mean, I've never been more freaked out, more scared and more terrified over anything in all of my life! Anytime I watch TV and see people in real cramped spaced either by choice (working) or by accident...I can't handle it.
And in the movie "Kill Bill" when she's trying to get out of the coffin? I can't watch that scene at all. Can't handle it.
basscooker said:
Many years back Dad wanted me to help him tuck point the chimney on the homestead. It was a two story house with an attic, so that made the peak of the roof about 28' up or so, but the stack was at the edge of the structure. I was reasonably OK on the roof, but the closer I got to the edge the more bugged I got. Dad? He built the place and it didn't bother him in the least, walking around right at the edge, and he was about 68 at the time. Damn, it's amazing what those old guys can do sometimes.
iJazz - He was always a bit taller to me after that.
I watched it. Pretty awesome. Don't know if I have the nuts to do something like that, but it was definitely a cool video.
A few years ago this showed up in TBOT and I stated that one of my balls dropped off and I was mono-balled from then on.
The other one hangs by the skin now, thank you, thank you very much!
The other one hangs by the skin now, thank you, thank you very much!
