You Need a Head for Heights...
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Er nope!
I work at height regularly but there's no way I'd do that climb. I've been up a 50mtr high lighting tower and that swayed enough for me. The one in this video is 10 times higher, so no thanks
Once went upstairs on a double decker bus. That seems a bit higher, so not keen,
Nor me
I've only ever been up telephone poles and that was 40 years ago. Not for me this one
Much higher Ian, me not keen either, but then again will never get the opportunity to refuse to climbOnce went upstairs on a double decker bus. That seems a bit higher, so not keen,
Was at my boy's house when the sky engineer was putting up his sky dish before he would climb his ladder he drilled into the house wall to fit his ladder restraint
House is a bungalow ,dish at the bottom of the eaves , height up the ladder 4/5 steps
Health and safety
House is a bungalow ,dish at the bottom of the eaves , height up the ladder 4/5 steps
Health and safety
Yep but if he'd fallen from the ladder without fitting his restraint think of the paperwork
I also carry out inspections on wind turbines, some are a lot higher than 50mtrs but somehow, because you are inside a big "Smartie" tube, you don't get the same experience. When you are looking up and climbing a mast, the movement of the clouds in the sky above can be very disorientating. You feel like the mast is moving. It's the same when we do high rise cranes and we have to climb the jibs to inspect the pulley's on the ends. You get the feeling that the crane is moving and you know full well that it is isolated and can't move. It's just your eyes and brain having fun with you.
I'm nearly 62 now and it wont be long before I will ask to be grounded as my knees are really painful after a climb and descent. Coming down is always more painful to my old knees than the climb. I wont miss it one little bit.
I'm nearly 62 now and it wont be long before I will ask to be grounded as my knees are really painful after a climb and descent. Coming down is always more painful to my old knees than the climb. I wont miss it one little bit.
I have a mate that hangs off turbines and he repairs the blades, had I been younger I would love to do it, the money is brilliant, it cost him a couple of grand to get his rope licence.
I'm lucky that all my training costs are covered by my employer. I'm not "rope access" qualified but a lot of our guys are. A "couple of grand" for a rope access licence is very reasonable, I would say it was at least double that. I recently had a "pressure vessel" inspection refresher that cost my employer over £5k, and a fume extraction inspection (LEV, Local Exhaust Ventilation) refresher course that was £4k.
Climbing is a young mans game or rather a "fitter than me" mans game
Made me feel sick watching that clip 
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No way I could do a job like that, I know I'm a wuss.
.No way I could do a job like that, I know I'm a wuss
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Made me feel sick watching that clip
No way I could do a job like that, I know I'm a wuss
Don't be silly Steve, we don't believe that for one minute, the size of you, you need to be "working at heights" trained just to put your hat on
You feel sick having a gentle pootle round Cadwell Park with @Brian H...Made me feel sick watching that clip
TBH the clip made me feel a little queasy
When we did the shaft inspections we were stood on top of the cage but still scary looking over the side to the pinprick of light at the shaft bottom. Ours were 680 m deep, and less than a minute to travel at full speed, Deepest I've been is 3250m but not in a single shaft.
No I still wouldn't climb that mast but used to go in boom lift to 65 ft and that swayed enough for me.
No I still wouldn't climb that mast but used to go in boom lift to 65 ft and that swayed enough for me.
Yes, 1500' was a good car tow launch in my gliding days
Not for me. The guy does this twice a year at $20k a time if memory serves. I'd send the C-in-C up for that though 