Gonna have to go lay down for a while now, stomach acting up, feels like butterflies.
------------------ Ron
Isn't it strange that after a bombing, everyone blames the bomber, his upbringing, his environment, his culture, his mental state but … after a shooting, the problem is the gun?
My Uncle Frank was a staunch Conservative and voted straight Republican until the day he died in Chicago. Since then he has voted Democrat. Shrug
As long as there are safety tethers, I'm down with it. You could pay me to do that. The one that gets me are the guys that go up in helicopters, touch power lines with a pole and then jump out on the power lines. I'm afraid of electricity more than heights, but I would say I have a healthy respect for both.
This is what I am talking about
Jim
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If I'm not mistaken, isn't that what Fats (Brad) on here does?
He used to work for a tower inspection company, but I don't think he ever actually climbed one. They didn't do any TV towers I don't think, I think they just did 300-400 foot Cell phone towers.
I've been on a tower of a height I have forgotten--several hundred feet I suppose--a LOT higher than the 100' drilling rig derricks I have been on--to change out a cable at a Navy Reserve station. I remember 3 things about it. 1. How heavy the new cable was as I was dragging it up, step by step, tied around my waist with no safety harness at all. 2. How much my feet hurt from being pushed down in the "vees" where the diagonal gussets met the vertical parts of the steel tower. 3. How much the dang thing swayed back and forth when I got up to the top and was removing the old cable and fastening the new one..
In my early days I grunted for a power line construction outfit. My first climb was a 40 foot pole that had been dropped in the hole. We couldn't set the pole because the loop on the dead man cable had flipped over the pole and turned the pole.
"Hey you, put your hooks on and climb up there and flip that loop over". So I strapped the hooks on my cowboy boots (I wasn't supposed to be climbing so I didn't have a set of boots that worked well with hooks)
Got to the top of the pole, which was leaning and loose. In the process of flipping the loop back over the top of the pole, the pole rolled me to the bottom side. Mind you, this was the first time I'd been up a pole on climbers hooks. I was a grunt. I wasn't supposed to be climbing.
When everyone on the ground had had a good laugh, and I'd mustered the courage to climb back down, I took the hooks off and never put them on again!
Lots of things don't bother me. Heights aren't one of them. Those guys can have however much they want for that job.[/QUOTE]
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Originally posted by blackrams:
Gonna have to go lay down for a while now, stomach acting up, feels like butterflies.
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Originally posted by Patrick's Dad:
Yeah... no. You wouldn't get me up 150'.
Wimps !
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Originally posted by maryjane:
What is your home's elevation above sea level?
I've been on a tower of a height I have forgotten--several hundred feet I suppose--a LOT higher than the 100' drilling rig derricks I have been on--to change out a cable at a Navy Reserve station. I remember 3 things about it. 1. How heavy the new cable was as I was dragging it up, step by step, tied around my waist with no safety harness at all. 2. How much my feet hurt from being pushed down in the "vees" where the diagonal gussets met the vertical parts of the steel tower. 3. How much the dang thing swayed back and forth when I got up to the top and was removing the old cable and fastening the new one..
I helped mount the Christmas tree on the top of oil rig we did in Portland harbor in December in Maine with the wind whipping us around like we were wind chimes. Fun, Fun, Fun ! Talk about the dam thing swaying around, between the waves and the wind I thought I was going to FLY ! Not to mention the temp was like 20 degree F !
The height never bothered me, remember the fall isn't what dangerous it's that sudden stop at the bottom !
Steve
------------------ Technology is great when it works, and one big pain in the ass when it doesn't
I did the 300 foot swing just outside of Orlando, that was a rush while they towed us up to the top then the rides on top of the stratosphere in Vegas. I love heights!
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I have a real serious fear of falling. In a tall building or in an airplane, I am fine because I can't fall out. But 20-30' up a ladder or on a ledge with little or no guard rail, my whole body turns to rubber and I just freeze. I can't go up or down.
I even did a solo parachute jump to see if I could conquer the fear. I made the jump, I had to be the first guy out and it was exciting, almost surreal, but it did not change my fear.
Originally posted by Notorio: I wonder how many times the guy gets to the top of one of these and then remembers he forgot to pack a screw driver ...
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Originally posted by Jake_Dragon: Once
You would be surprised. I often work on an oil well drilling derrick. Heights of about 180 foot. More times that I would like, even though I packed everything I thought I needed, there was something else needed.
If I'm not mistaken, isn't that what Fats (Brad) on here does?
I was just the IT guy for a company that did this. I've been up a few times though, mainly just to show the guys that I had "balls" too, and wasn't just a D-Bag at a desk.
I have a real serious fear of falling. In a tall building or in an airplane, I am fine because I can't fall out. But 20-30' up a ladder or on a ledge with little or no guard rail, my whole body turns to rubber and I just freeze. I can't go up or down.
I even did a solo parachute jump to see if I could conquer the fear. I made the jump, I had to be the first guy out and it was exciting, almost surreal, but it did not change my fear.
I'm not quite that bad but, I don't like heights, never have. My first jump was to try and over come the fear. Did about 85 or 90 more before I quit but, I never did get over it. Why did I kept jumping you may ask. Because I wasn't going to let fear drive my life. It's kind of interesting though that my goal in life was to fly helicopters. I was never afraid when I was at the controls. Go figure.
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You would be surprised. I often work on an oil well drilling derrick. Heights of about 180 foot. More times that I would like, even though I packed everything I thought I needed, there was something else needed.
I would make it up there once, after that I wouldn't have so far to go to get the screw driver. Not afraid of the fall just the sudden stop at the bottom. I was up a radar tower on a one of the destroyers in dry dock. That was a long way up and no water. I slipped my foot at the top and it took about 10 minutes before I could move again.
