I hope you're not afraid of heights

[big dog cowboy]

Imagine getting to the top and having to take a dump . . .

 

[Hostile]

That is a dream job for a base jumper. Hell, do your job, jump off, free fall, open chute, and glide to the ground.

I enjoyed the heck out of that. I gotta tell you that having someone behind me going up there with me would be more unnerving to me than the height.

I think they ought to leave all the tools needed up there. Can you imagine dropping a wrench from that height? It would be a missile. Just cable all the tools to the tower and leave them.

 

[SaltwaterServr]

That is a dream job for a base jumper. Hell, do your job, jump off, free fall, open chute, and glide to the ground.

I enjoyed the heck out of that. I gotta tell you that having someone behind me going up there with me would be more unnerving to me than the height.

I think they ought to leave all the tools needed up there. Can you imagine dropping a wrench from that height? It would be a missile. Just cable all the tools to the tower and leave them.

I bet they have a clearance radius that must be free of people based on wind velocity. A hard hat is only going to be good for showing point of entry on the corpse hit by a crescent wrench dropped from that height.

That said, I wonder how many bolts and nuts are 9' underground via impact from the fall from the top of those critters.

 

[bbgun]

As someone who relies on free OTA broadcasts, I appreciate his efforts.

 

[DallasCowpoke]

Somewhere, Gilbert Grape is having an orgasm.

 

[urface59]

Holy Hail Mary! By the end of that my palms were dripping with sweat.

 

[Kangaroo]

Interesting stuff

 

[Dallas]

That's pretty gnarly. I am NOT afraid of heights at all, but that would be SCARY. The wind, I imagine, is very strong at that height. Wowzers~!

BTW, what's the point (besides mounting the camera) of the helmets? I don't think they'll save you from a fall that height.

I've also heard that if you fall from that high up, you'll have a heart attack and die before you hit the ground. Anybody know if there is any validity to that statement?

I fell once from about 1300 ft. I think I had a mild stroke at about 400 ft. Fortunately for me I ran out of gas at 4 ft before slamming to Earth.

Im a pretty lucky guy.

 

[SLATEmosphere]

I fell once from about 1300 ft. I think I had a mild stroke at about 400 ft. Fortunately for me I ran out of gas at 4 ft before slamming to Earth.

Im a pretty lucky guy.

uh what?

 

[Dallas]

uh what?

Sorry. It's a reference to an old Bugs Bunny cartoon. =) I really didn't fall from 1400 ft. It was more like 1200.

 

[YosemiteSam]

uh what?

Aren't you ban? :

 

[Alumni2k11]

Wow I could never do that. Standing on the 86th observation level on the Empire State Building was bad enough for me...

 

[Signals]

I used to climb towers for a living, it's quite an adrenaline rush, but I never climbed one that tall though. The highest I ever climbed was about 20 stories with no safety cable.

There is something unexplainable inside of you when you realize that every single minuscule move counts, and life and death is in your own hands. It's awesome feeling and your definitely attuned to your relationship with God.

The feeling I had after my first climb and I came down and my feet hit the ground was unbelievable, there is nothing like it.

The most frightened I ever became was when I got a cramp in my fore arm muscle at 5 or 6 stories high and didn't have any water left to drink, it was a painful and miserable trip down.

 

[rkell87]

I guess I get the tiring part but time consuming shouldn't even factor in with something like that.

People working from that high should be far more safe then what they have them doing and the fact that 'time' is part of their issue in why they let them climb that high without far more safety is more than a little concerning.

Someones life>time consuming




I would think there is a huge difference between people choosing to sky dive (believing that you've got a pack that will work and you'll safely land on the ground) and someone falling from a spot like that knowing that they're going to die.

at that height it will take a long time to climb down, longer than it took to get up. weather is so unpredictable, time is a factor, its far less safe to take a long time to get up and down the tower and risk a storm blowing in than it is to free climb the tower.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

I imagine the helmet is to protect you from tools or small equipment falling on you.

I heard the heart attack thing was a myth. It was during a recent interview with a skydiver. Interesting question.

That video was making my tummy tingle. I guess I am prone to vertigo or something.

I would believe having a parachute wouldn't make you have a heart attack. But without one, I'm sure you would.

 

[theogt]

I would believe having a parachute wouldn't make you have a heart attack. But without one, I'm sure you would.

Give it a shot and let us know.

 

[DallasCowpoke]

I worked two summers my last year/s in high school as a "Mechanic's Helper" for Dover Elevator. I got to work on the last phases of The Hyatt Regency and Reunion Tower in downtown Dallas. The elevator motor lift room, sits on top of the tower's ball substructure. That's roughly 550'.

I loved it! I love heights and used to take my breakfast and coffee up to the highest, most open points of the structure I could get to and watch the sunrise.

Iron workers, are some HARDCORE mother truckers, but "hanging rails" to install a "Skipjack" in a 30 or 40 story elevator shaft, that's basically surrounded by raw steel girders, and little else, is an experience I'll remember forever!

 

[Sarge]

brutal.

 

[KJJ]

I used to climb electrical grid towers. Nothing that tall, but once you hit a certain height, it doesn't matter anymore. If you fall, your dead anyway.

Although the higher you are the more time you have to think about it as you're tumbling to your death. Anyone who would take on job like that has to be a little crazy.

 

[Warick]

Imagine getting to the top and having to take a dump . . .

This video is posted on another board, and someone posted that they know someone who does this. He said about 3/4 of the way up, the guy got bad stomach cramps, and the (hershey squirts, LOL), and after a few painful rest stops, made it to the top, pulled down his trowsers and let er rip.

Watching this video made me cringe, but this one was worse.

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Also, how about this job?
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