finally, a dozen or so years later

Are you checking to make sure nothing is in the aerial easement?

Scott Ellis, post: 436719, member: 7154 wrote: Are you checking to make sure nothing is in the aerial easement?

around here it's referred to as the capitol view corridor. and come to think of it- i might should just go hang a shingle as the resident expert on it. the way things are being built around here it'd be a furious gig while it lasted.

I don't care much for Austin (or cities in general), but thats a pretty nice view!

I admire the quality and detail of the obviously Texas made harness and safety equipment; had you been doing this in a PLSS state, duct tape and bailing wire would have had to suffice.

James Fleming, post: 436723, member: 136 wrote: I admire the quality and detail of the obviously Texas made harness and safety equipment; had you been doing this in a PLSS state, duct tape and bailing wire would have had to suffice.

i don't know where the outfit was from that ran this whole thing (it was some charity fundraiser exercise), but they weren't texans. my guess would be an amalgamation of mountain-staters. they all looked and sounded like REI employees.

the whole thing was... interesting. not sure i'd call it fun, relative to some of the other stuff i've done. definitely not an adrenaline injection like, say, skydiving is. basically you're just staring at a wall for the 7-8 minutes it takes to get down. and that it was a charity fundraiser, it was basically a cattle call for a bunch of 20-something "er my gerd!"ers with go-pro cameras. i think in the hour it took to get geared up, get lectured on everything, and actually do it, i heard the word "amazing" no fewer than 600 times.

but it was cool to sit there for a couple minutes and scan the landscape from up there.

btw- duct tape and bailing wire might have actually made it a little more exciting.

flyin solo, post: 436725, member: 8089 wrote: (it was some charity fundraiser exercise),

I seem to remember Roady doing the same thing out in El Chuco.

James Fleming, post: 436723, member: 136 wrote: I admire the quality and detail of the obviously Texas made harness and safety equipment; had you been doing this in a PLSS state, duct tape and bailing wire would have had to suffice.

Not to mention you can only climb down rectangle buildings in PLSS States.

James Fleming, post: 436723, member: 136 wrote: I admire the quality and detail of the obviously Texas made harness and safety equipment; had you been doing this in a PLSS state, duct tape and bailing wire would have had to suffice.

That's good but you forgot to open with "Based on the postings of PLSS duct tape surveyors on here one can only conclude that..."

That's cool! Lots of good concerts there. Next up is Buddy Guy!

I've been on the roof of the Hyatt Regency near downtown but it was years ago.

Squirltech, post: 436732, member: 11959 wrote: That's cool! Lots of good concerts there. Next up is Buddy Guy!

I've been on the roof of the Hyatt Regency near downtown but it was years ago.

doubt i'll catch him, but i've seen him at antone's 5 or 6 times over the years. i think nick lowe was the best show i've seen at ACL. don't get out too much anymore, and if i do i'd rather do it in a more intimate venue (so long as we still have the ability and privilege here).

For the "larger acts" that place is pretty intimate, imo. Best show I've seen at ACL was probably Slayer, just last year.

I love this city for the live music possibilities here or near here. Tonight is a concert at Come and Take It Live (formerly Grizzly Hall), then Buddy Guy, then Overkill at CaTIL. Later in the year it's Dwight Yoakam in Helotes. I don't get out as much as I'd like but the shows are out there, you just have to be willing to get out and see them....then get up at 5:30am to go to work. 😉

Congratulations!

It is a spiritual experience "letting go" and trusting the duct tape and bailing wire.

The serious REI guys get more out of going up than down.
If this was a charity fundraiser, did you pay to get into the harness or out? Before or after?

The idea of putting my life in the hands of a skinny little rope and ancillary support gear like that gives me the willies. Especially when there's no compelling reason to do so. What could possibly go wrong?

Daniel Ralph, post: 436751, member: 8817 wrote: The serious REI guys get more out of going up than down.
If this was a charity fundraiser, did you pay to get into the harness or out? Before or after?

Boss was a sponsor, so I got a free ride.

Jim Frame, post: 436753, member: 10 wrote: The idea of putting my life in the hands of a skinny little rope and ancillary support gear like that gives me the willies. Especially when there's no compelling reason to do so. What could possibly go wrong?

Two skinny ropes. Load rated to something on the order of 5 of me. What could go wrong is the only compelling part of the exercise in my book.

Way too many individual critical pieces of hardware between you and the top of the roof.

That looks much better than what they provided me during my construction surveying days when we had to check out structures being erected for vertical alignment while stationary like the skeleton for a digestor tank or while being rotated like a rail car dumper.
They gave me a belt with a 4ft rope with a hook on the end.
Problem was there was never a place to connect the hook.
I kept asking for a crane chair or a wench and some cable or some skylyft to get me there, but no, that was not in the budget.
Those stuntman jobs really did not pay any more than ordinary jobs and it did not take long for me to move on to jobs where my feet were on the ground.

Requesting a wench might create problems when you went home at the end of the day.

Requesting a winch would be less fun but safer in the long run.