Nopey, nopey. I would have to have a safety line attached while moving the other safety line up. I don't care how long it would take.
Assuming they could get me up there in the first place, they would have to break my arms and legs to get me down. I would have the Mother of all death grips on that thing.
Dale Yawn
Mr. Vertigo
Savannah, Ga.
Me too Dale. I wouldn't climb that thing if there was $1 mil waiting for me at the top.
My hands and feet started perspiring just watching the video.:-O
Can't stand heights but love to fly, what's up with that?
Have a great week!
Actually, after you get up 100 feet or so, everything else is pretty irrelevant.
"It reminds me of that fellow back home that fell off a ten story building. As he was falling people on each floor kept hearing him say, "So far, so good."
LOL It's true though!
Have a great week !
No way for me to try that. Freaky video. I got chills watching it.
Where is my chute?
Free handing. I do not think so. Not for this flatlander.
A good friend installs telemetry antennas for municipal water systems, including the monitoring package for water towers. Nowhere near the height the guys on the video are at, but after the first 10 stories, does it really matter?
I am hands down, the most acrophobic person I have ever met. I own a 3' step stool for reaching the stuff in the back of the top cabinet, everything any higher and it gets outsourced.
When I had the new metal roof put on last February, I asked one of the installers how they deal with the heights. He said if a new hire is the least bit skittish, he gets paid twice, for his first day and his last.
The same guy fell off the roof the next day and shattered his hip, was back at work a week later in a body cast cutting panels.
I can handle heights fairly well, but I do not think I would have tried that back when I was young and just a wee bit crazy. I have worked steel over 100 feet AGL. 1700+, NOT.
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> Me too Dale. I wouldn't climb that thing if there was $1 mil waiting for me at the top.
> My hands and feet started perspiring just watching the video.:-O
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> Can't stand heights but love to fly, what's up with that?
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> Have a great week!
Me too. LOVE To fly. But climbing that tower?? NO EFFING WAY!!! I got queasy just watching that!!! Especially when he had to "free climb" the last part!!! :-O
A quicker exit technique
No way. I'd be dead before I even got to the top of the tower at that rate. 😛
I kinda thought that after 30' it really doesn't matter...
Anyway...heights don't bother me...but my balance isn't so hot...so I don't think I'd do that...a man has to know his limitations!
