Fear of Heights?

[Fratzog]

You'd need to be very fit just to climb that far...

https://www.youtube.com/embed/f1BgzIZRfT8?feature=player_embedded

 

[mcmlvii]

To answer your question, yep. And for those of us that will never get to those heights, it's pretty awesome what camera drones can do these days.

 

[Zymurgy]

Never in a million year it gives me the willies just watching it from the drone, but very cool.

 

[Ironwolf]

Ahhhhhhh NO !!!!!!!! :cheers2:

 

[CanCritter]

lve repelled from helicopters but that would have me hangin on for dear life and prayin

 

[Big blubber]

You'd need to be very fit just to climb that far...

https://www.youtube.com/embed/f1BgzIZRfT8?feature=player_embedded

He's staying up there to get away from the wife:eusa_eh:

 

[LocuMob]

Holy flippin' crimeny! I'm doing just fine on the ground.

 

[Big blubber]

You'd need to be very fit just to climb that far...

https://www.youtube.com/embed/f1BgzIZRfT8?feature=player_embedded

Notice how he clips on every time he moves sensible guy Here's another few health and safety guys Empire State Building

 

[dude69300]

My high school wood shop teacher used to do that for his "summer" job, putting in new bulbs in the tv towers. Back in the '70's you didn't have a lot of safety gear like you do now. He wasn't a big tall guy, kinda short, built like a weight lifter. Nobody ever lipped off to him, he would just wreck you if you did

 

[cm23uoc]

Getting wet Hands just from watching.

 

[Big blubber]

A bunch of friggen nutters

 

[furyus 67]

No fear of heights but I do have a fear of falling. With proper safety equipment I'd like to think I could do it! We used get up pretty high(to me) when I was laying brick.

 

[dude69300]

I used to build scaffolding for other trades at refineries in the 1980's. We used to hang needle beams from long heavy chains, then install scaffold plank for the work deck, then handrails. At 80' in the air on the sides of cracker units. All we had for safety was a nylon web belt around the waist with a "D" ring in the back with a lanyard. It would stop your fall but someone would have to get you rescued quickly, the sharp stop would drive the wind right out of you and hanging from the ring you couldn't breathe for very long. Like I said, I USED to do that kind of work. I find better work now.
A friend of mine and my work partner for almost a yr on a big bridge project here in town, was killed in a scaffold project. He and the scaffold fell 80'to 100', it didn't matter that he had on fall protection, the whole damn thing fell. I drug up from that project a short time before this,I had a bad feeling about the job, I could have been working with him that day if I had stayed on. They estimated 7 guys would die on that bridge project, they only got 4 of us. The contractor was almost proud of that

 

[tbm3fan]

Two years ago I needed to climb the mast because of a crow's nest at the level of the first arm. Too much trouble to use my harness clicking off each step up I took. The nest was an incredible piece of workmanship. Branches as thick as 3/4" and completely intertwined with the arm. Took 1/2 hour to dismantle and drop below with the crows having a fit. According to those below the crows cam within a few feet of me when my back was turned to them. When I got down it then took 1 1/2 hours to clean up the mess spread out over the flight deck (O3) to Deck O7.

Just two weeks ago I noticed crows were back when I saw a clump of bird crap on the O11 level. This time they were up even higher to the X arm. Once again back up and found that they had been there longer than the first nest so there was a burial at sea as the nest went over. No camera with me this time as I was expecting a nest.

Our head of ship operations/restoration/aircraft, who flew in Navy helos standing at the open door while in flight, can't stand heights. When on the O11 level he stands at the base of the mast and won't walk over the the railing.