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Clubroom => General Discussion => Topic started by: Lozza on September 19, 2010, 09:40:00 pm
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No it isn't your a milksop nancy boy when THIS (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyxY_sgnl_Q) is your office.
These blokes earn every cent. Try not to look away for 7min :o
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That is insane!
Our guys climb transmission towers but with a fixed safety cable and a one way latch set up that slides up with them. Mind you once you get past 60 or so feet you're not going to survive a fall so 1600 ft doesn't matter eh?
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Please don't tell me they are up there to get a better SBS picture ;D
F' ING NUTS!
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I love how they wear helmets as if that would save you if you fell off that thing! :D
I've spent a fair bit of time shooting out of helicopters and planes with the door off and held in by a harness and I'm totally comfortable with that, but get me on top of any structure that attached to the ground and I'm crapping myself. ::)
That was creepy to watch for me. ;D
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Same as you Tony I am fine until I am over two stories up fine in a plane but not on tall buildings.
Maybe becuase I know I am an accident prone bugger who is likely to stumble off the edge. ;)
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What gets me is how fit and strong they are to be even able to climb that bloody high. I'm stuffed at 20metres carrying a 20litre bucket of paint. Why the hell didnt a chopper just lower them down.
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2:12 - climbing the tower with an Imperial Storm Trooper FTW!
I used to do a bit of this in my old job (not to that sort of height, obviously!). I'm not great with heights but you rationalise it and you place faith in the safety gear - then the terror disappears and you can enjoy it.
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No safety line :o :o :o
Probably costs too much to fuel up a chopper and lower them down to the tower
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but you rationalise it and you place faith in the safety gear - then the terror disappears and you can enjoy it.
That sounds like the first time I had sex.................. :-\
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Why the hell didnt a chopper just lower them down.
I used to work on towers out of helicopters, it was mega fun, and its very weather (wind) critical. There has to be almost no wind to drop guys on towers at 100ft, It would be really hard if not impossible to get the right conditions at 1600ft. The other thing is that tower is probably swaying 10 meters or so at the top.
But anyway you look at it those guys are nuts ;D
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I reckon I nearly fell out of my chair every time he unhooked his safety and looked down! I hate heights....cringe /squirm rating a max at both hands over eyes! :P
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Many Many years ago about 20 years ago I climbed about 3/4 the way up the antenna tower on top of Mt Wellington in Hobart to look at painting the tower. Im not generally scared of heights but shit when we got 3/4 of the way up after about 30 minutes climbing I was buggered and scared shitless the tower was swaying about 3 metres it was not for me they had to get some riggers from Sydney to do it.
Cheers
Fatboy
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A mate is a Telstra radio lineman, the final part of the job interview was to report to Bondi Junction tower. 100 applicants for 12 positions. When you got to the yard you we then asked to climb to the very top and report to the fellow up there. Half bailed there and then, it's about a 600ft tower. Once at the top you had to walk out a 100mm wide gantry(nothing below) and half bailed again at that,again once out at the edge you had to go a lap around the tower on the outside on a similar gantry, one fella froze out there and people had to prise his hands from the rail. Out of 100 applicants 10 people completed the interview 2 positions were not filled. Not a job for everyone ;D
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My limit is about 32ft but I,ve got a mate who likes the real high stuff.
He,s a Nut job I rekon. :)
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After the third rung on a ladder I leave my fingerprints in it.
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Spare a thought for the guys that built it in the first place. :o
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OMG!!!! :o
And the funny thing is, he probably thinks it's a boring job... ::)
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Hard work climbing up there, :P work days would only be- weather permitting 8)
Never used that one for King Kong ::) ;D :o
cheers
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(http://i988.photobucket.com/albums/af5/ee61/NZSummitNZ.jpg)
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not fair Shoey!
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Hey Shoey, in the middle of the glacier, is that a base camp?
can I come on one of these adventures?
Cheers Trev
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Trev.
Centre and left of the glasier are protruding rocks.
Sometimes they are fixed and sometimes they are trapped in the ice flow and move with the glasier.
Trapped rocks can travel all the way down and basically drop out at the tonge of the glasier
Our camp was down the opposite side
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You can have a tough job on the ground too I know people who are scared of small places Claustrophobic I am glad I am not because I have to get under houses alot sometimes do jobs by myself if it is really tight.
One house I got stuck under when I was trying to get out I got in there ok but there was a bearer I could pull against to get in there, then I got stuck with just my face and arms out on the way out was stuck there for a while until dad found me and pulled me out. ;D
When you get a bit scared it is amazing how much your muscles swell up and you get stuck tighter alot of the times you have to nearly fall asleep to relax enough to get out it has happened to me quite a few times.
My dad used to let me have a day of school if there was ever any low house to work under which was good get out of school and under a house. ;)
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FFAAAARK THAT :o :o
i don't care what they get paid it's not enough
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Would like to see a copy of thier JSA form ( Job safety Analysis )
What would the wind speed be at that high up ???? Sorry not for this little black duck.
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You can jamb that right up your cloacka, I got dizzy just watching.
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I know a guy who is a deep sea welder (mostly North Sea oil rigs, with the odd 'glamour' job in the middle east). Goes so deep that he has to breathe surface-supplied heliox and the surface crew translate what he says through a descrambler. Reckons he's seen some weird shit at those depths. Probably the only person I know with a job that compares to these tower climbers. Needless to say he only works 8 weeks a year!
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I WONDER IF THE GUY HAS A PROBLEM GETTING UP IN THE MORNING .my legs were shaking just watching that . yeek.
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I watched it again, but its hard to watch and when he said they free climb with no safety connection i thought stuff that. I wonder if its a high paying job and they get heaps for being that brave to do it?
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I work as a Service Tech on a wind farm and spend the majority of my working day up on top of wind turbine towers. The top of the nacelle is about 85m off the ground and although I am quite at happy working at those heights, there is no way that I would step out on to the roof of the nacelle without my harness on and securely anchored.
I had seen the clip before as have most of the other tech's at work and we all agree that those guys are a bit on the crazy side. To get to the top of one of our towers we have to climb about 77m straight up a single ladder which goes thru 4 floor levels, no lifts for us;
(http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s120/coljay/ladder.jpg)
At present I am working with a crew doing rotor blade changes;
(http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s120/coljay/lift.jpg)
(http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s120/coljay/jousting.jpg)
CJ
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I laugh that OH&S would require them to wear a helmet, next to useless, except if your below and someone above dropped a hammer or something.
Looked like they climbed it at first light which would mean next to no wind. A tower that thin would sway around a lot in a slight breeze.
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I would have liked to see how they go back down.
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I would have liked to see how they go back down.
I was thinking about how they would get down...climbing would be such a waste, better to wear a chute and jump it out ;D
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i remember reading a really cool article years ago on a tribe of american indians, seems they were the only ones who could stand the heights on some of the buildings that where mega high. From what i recall they had a construction crew that was completely made up from this tribe and they some how genically proved they had no fear of hieghts. Anyhow some of the photos that acompanied it was just mental..... i would be wearing a parachute at all times, but these guys were onthe outside of a building just going about there business..
I couldnt do it, i have a fear of failing from something breaking off
What happens when they tower corrodes ? imagine if the bolts snapped off.............