robin
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Get on it and RIDE!!
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« Reply #1 on: September 27, 2010, 02:49:19 PM » |
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 When he swang outside and started climbing my pucker factor went way up. Edit, In my late 20's I used to erect aluminum fences on bridges over motorways/interstates. Most of the time we worked on the "wrong" side of what we were erecting. 3 running rail, occasionally 5 rail bolted to posts. Highest bridge I worked on was about 200ft. No safety wire. It would have got in the way even if we had worn one. Rain or shine. No tools wired to us. We simply made sure we didn't drop anything.
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« Reply #2 on: September 27, 2010, 04:01:25 PM » |
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WHEW
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« Reply #3 on: September 27, 2010, 04:30:24 PM » |
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No kidding,my legs got weakand I felt lightheaded watching that video
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« Reply #4 on: September 27, 2010, 04:43:14 PM » |
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i only did 150-200 ft towers in my youth(worked for motorola) coming down is MUCH worse icould NEVER go that high |
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Jess from VA
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« Reply #5 on: September 27, 2010, 05:17:51 PM » |
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I climbed steel mills, blast furnaces, smoke stacks, and ore docks; each summer for 10 years. A week back on the job and the heights were no big deal. Not 1700 feet, but hey, once the fall is at least 200 feet, you're dead anyway (the last thing you want is to end up in a chair for the rest of your life). You pay attention to what you are doing, and act like it is four feet off the ground....piece of cake. High winds are a different story. Nothing like being in a two-man spyder cabled to the top of a stack in a high wind and the spyder flies a long way from the stack. I worked on these ore docks, while they were unloading lake freighters.  Another (climbed the blast furnace in the background... there were four of them).  My first day on the job at 17 I thought this was Dante's Inferno on this earth.  |
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Wahoo!!!!
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« Reply #6 on: September 27, 2010, 05:28:55 PM » |
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I'd rather parachute down than climb down.  |
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I ride a motorcycle because nothing transports me as quickly from where I am to who I am.
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« Reply #7 on: September 27, 2010, 05:33:44 PM » |
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ain't that the trueth!! when you're coming down, you have to LOOK down!! going up you don't realize you're up that high, but on the way down you have to look for the next step!! my brother and i climbed a 300' microwave tower when we were kids. i was 15 and he was about 17. didn't know any better back then and it looked like fun!! at about 200' i froze up, scared shitless. once i got to the top the view was AWSOME !!! of course i had to pee off the top, and we both spit, my brothers friend through his shirt off just to see it fall. the light bulb was another 20' higher, had to climb up and touch it!! wish we had a camera!! an old co-worker of mine got a job with Diaryland Electric in Alma WI. his job was to change the light bulb on the chimney. he said it wasn't that fun to do when it was cold out, but it was a nice view!! pay was good!! |
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« Reply #8 on: September 28, 2010, 12:40:52 AM » |
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The fall is no problem at all .Its the sudden stop at the bottom thats a bitch
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« Reply #9 on: September 28, 2010, 04:44:48 AM » |
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no doubt....it takes a special breed of people to work like that. after 20 feet.....it don't matter how high you are.
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« Reply #10 on: September 28, 2010, 05:01:24 AM » |
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youjust aint as hungry as they are |
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« Reply #11 on: September 28, 2010, 09:01:57 AM » |
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Sorry Robin......could only watch about 3 seconds of climbing before I hit the red X...Whew!!!
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« Reply #12 on: September 29, 2010, 07:37:45 AM » |
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Nope... No way, no how...
In the words of Woody, from Cheers, when they were about to go sky diving, 'Make Me!'
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Just when the highway straightened out for a mile And I was thinkin' I'd just cruise for a while A fork in the road brought a new episode Don't you know... Conform, go crazy, or ride a motorcycle...  |
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« Reply #13 on: September 29, 2010, 08:12:03 AM » |
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A snowball (in you-know-where) has a better chance of winning the lottery AND being struck by lightning at the same time.
No way, no how.
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