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Title: Don't look down, don't look down.
Post by: Searcher on 15 September 2010, 20:44:02

You couldn't pay me enough money to do this job.

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I think my fear of heights just awakened....

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Post by: maria on 15 September 2010, 20:46:57

I hate heights too I cant even go up a step ladder that's how scared I get   ::)

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Post by: mantagte on 15 September 2010, 20:56:02

urgh feel sick now :-[

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Post by: Dishevelled Den on 15 September 2010, 21:02:59

Great stuff S 8-) - very enjoyable indeed. :y :y

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Post by: Lizzie_Zoom on 15 September 2010, 21:15:35

I love heights, so that all makes great viewing!!  8-) 8-):y :y :y :y :y

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Post by: Welung666 on 15 September 2010, 21:20:11

I made it to 1:42 and had to turn it off! I hate heights and I felt sick sitting here watching that! (http://images.paraorkut.com/img/emoticons/images/s/sick-476.gif)

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Post by: Plomien on 15 September 2010, 21:20:24

no way I would get up there :o

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Post by: hoofing it on 15 September 2010, 21:24:59

brave men my arse would be pebble dashing if I were up there ::)

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Post by: Mysteryman on 15 September 2010, 21:28:57

I got a headache just watching that.

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Post by: waspy on 15 September 2010, 21:35:46

It got me how he climbed without his fall arrester & only clipped it when he had a break.
I don't mind heights, but you wouldn't get me up there.

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Post by: TheBoy on 15 September 2010, 21:58:42

Don't do utube, but if thats the vid of the transmitter, then respect.  I used to climb telegraph poles, and some of the bigger ones of those used to leave me 'fully clenched'

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Post by: Unicornrider on 15 September 2010, 22:01:55

My father when working on tall building when in the building trade used too tell me that walking across a 6inch plank of wood 100ft up was no different than walking over a 6inch plank of wood on the floor.

I suppose he was right but by god i used too cack myself watching him. ;D

Holy mother of mary........ :o

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Post by: Richie London on 15 September 2010, 22:02:21

i have to do cherrypicker work and scissor lifts, i usually go sick the next day till the work is done. 30 yrs ago i could climb a block of flats up a drain pipe. why have i a fear now of heights ??

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Post by: Lizzie_Zoom on 15 September 2010, 22:04:34

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i have to do cherrypicker work and scissor lifts, i usually go sick the next day till the work is done. 30 yrs ago i could climb a block of flats up a drain pipe. why have i a fear now of heights ??

Because with age you have learnt that you are not invincible as we all think when young :D :D ;)

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Post by: Sixstring on 15 September 2010, 22:04:41

Don't have a problem with the height (I used to install cellular tx towers for a living) but really don't like how he only "clips on" to sticking out rungs, and stops without using carabiners or fall arrest equipment!!

Man has death wish!! :D

LOONY.

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Post by: smithpa7 on 15 September 2010, 22:15:47

Why is it when it comes to heights, my 'little bits' twist and turn with my stomach :o :o
I am like TheBoy and used to climb telegraph poles during my apprenticeship and I have never recovered :-[

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Post by: eddie on 15 September 2010, 22:44:09

just to change freakin bulb ??

I nearly fell of my chair when he swung a leg back and looked down.......

Theres a similar proggy on Disco. where they climb the tower on top of Empire State building--at night--in the winter!

eddie

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Post by: dbug on 15 September 2010, 22:45:18

Done the Eiffel Tower, Empire State in New York & Sears Tower in Chicago, no probs but that "pole" no way.

Interestingly don't see the point in those guys wearing hard hats - wont help if they fell off from the top  :-/

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Post by: mh_trigger on 15 September 2010, 23:13:38

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brave men my arse would be pebble dashing if I were up there ::)

lol...i wonder if he'd bother screaming or just say to himself....."oh well" if he fell off ;D

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Post by: jonnycool on 15 September 2010, 23:23:29

All that, casually climbing up a pole which must be swaying a bit, possibly a bit gusty and with a few awkward bits to get round, with no safety catch and with a heavy bag swinging round?

break that!

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Post by: andyc on 15 September 2010, 23:58:23

Wonder what his life insurance policy is like?

Theres a coms tower just outside Bolton on top of the moore, Andy B will know the one i mean, Often wondered how they got to the top

Andy

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Post by: tidla on 16 September 2010, 00:16:02

is it me being beered this time of night as the links x3 dont work?

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Post by: hotel21 on 16 September 2010, 00:21:26

Links removed by host due to an online claim by the original owner, methinks...

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Post by: Broomies Mate on 16 September 2010, 00:23:38

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Done the Eiffel Tower, Empire State in New York & Sears Tower in Chicago, no probs but that "pole" no way.

Interestingly don't see the point in those guys wearing hard hats - wont help if they fell off from the top  :-/

Health and Safety.....gone mad!  I'm back with the Industrial Door business.  We have to wear hard hats when working in certain places.  We tend to be near the roof, so unless the roof caves in, the hard hat will offer no protection.... and even if I was wearing three hard hats, if the roof caved in, my skull would be in close proximity to my toes.

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Post by: Searcher on 16 September 2010, 00:40:24

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is it me being beered this time of night as the links x3 dont work?

Alternate link for those that missed the original...


http://www.videoliste.com/video/yXuzrIN_x2M/



 :y :y :y

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Post by: davethediver on 16 September 2010, 01:09:26

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Done the Eiffel Tower, Empire State in New York & Sears Tower in Chicago, no probs but that "pole" no way.

Interestingly don't see the point in those guys wearing hard hats - wont help if they fell off from the top  :-/

Health and Safety.....gone mad!  I'm back with the Industrial Door business.  We have to wear hard hats when working in certain places.  We tend to be near the roof, so unless the roof caves in, the hard hat will offer no protection.... and even if I was wearing three hard hats, if the roof caved in, my skull would be in close proximity to my toes.

Friend of mine used to work as a roofer and was forced to were a hard hat by health and safety his argument for not "Only two things going to hit my head while up there bird s##t or a plane, so hows a silly yellow hat going to help"  :question

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Post by: CaptainZok on 16 September 2010, 01:43:55

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Wonder what his life insurance policy is like?

Theres a coms tower just outside Bolton on top of the moore, Andy B will know the one i mean, Often wondered how they got to the top

Andy

That'll be Winter Hill, looks a bloody long way up when you're stood at the bottom.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_Hill_TV_Mast

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Post by: JesterRT on 16 September 2010, 08:20:04

I changed some fittings once at the top of a 30ft mast on a boat for my mate.  Didn't think what the fuss what about until the git started running from one side of the boat to the other.  It might only rock gently down below but 30ft up it had me holding on :)

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Post by: Dishevelled Den on 16 September 2010, 08:47:47

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I changed some fittings once at the top of a 30ft mast on a boat for my mate.  Didn't think what the fuss what about until the git started running from one side of the boat to the other.  It might only rock gently down below but 30ft up it had me holding on :)

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but 30ft up it had me holding on

Even at deck level Jest., that 'gentle' rocking would have done for me.(http://[url=http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys.php][img]http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-sick029.gif) (http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys.php)http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-sick029.gif[/img][/url](http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-sick029.gif) (http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys.php)

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Post by: Sixstring on 16 September 2010, 09:12:07

Just a thought........................

IF he fell, there would just be a little red stain on the ground, and the drop in pressure in the head would kill him/make him black out before he hit the deck, would'nt it??

So.......St Peter would know about it before he did!!

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Post by: Dishevelled Den on 16 September 2010, 09:23:57

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Just a thought........................

IF he fell, there would just be a little red stain on the ground, and the drop in pressure in the head would kill him/make him black out before he hit the deck, would'nt it??

So.......St Peter would know about it before he did!!

Would there be much difference in atmospheric pressure between 1800 feet and sea level Six?

Sudden rise in blood pressure/respiration rate may have some effect on consciousness perhaps. :-/

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Post by: TheBoy on 16 September 2010, 09:38:26

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Done the Eiffel Tower, Empire State in New York & Sears Tower in Chicago, no probs but that "pole" no way.

Interestingly don't see the point in those guys wearing hard hats - wont help if they fell off from the top  :-/

Hard hat - trust me, it bloody smarts if you catch your scon on a step whilst climbing poles. So, yes, no help if you fall, but still useful ;)

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Post by: Debs. on 16 September 2010, 10:29:25

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Would there be much difference in atmospheric pressure between 1800 feet and sea level ?

Only about 40 mmHG differential; but boiling a kettle for a comforting cuppa would take longer at the bottom than from where he fell! ;D

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Post by: Dishevelled Den on 16 September 2010, 10:36:20

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Would there be much difference in atmospheric pressure between 1800 feet and sea level ?

Only about 40 mmHG differential; but boiling a kettle for a comforting cuppa would take longer at the bottom than from where he fell! ;D

 ;D ;D Thank you Deb 8-) :y

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Post by: djac on 16 September 2010, 14:25:41

OMG! Sweaty palms or what!!  :o

Would be worth wearing a parachute for that one, would make one heck of a BASE jump!