How many madmen does it take to change a light bulb;?..

[<me9]

TheOnLineEngineer.org."

[geoff]

In message , [e-mail] writes

Bastards

did anyone download it ?

[John Whitworth]

From:

sent out an email this weekend advertising a new video about tower climbing. It was a great video and I wish I could show it to you but the person I got it from expressed some concerns about how it reflected on the tower industry and ask me to take it down. So I did. But not to worry, we have agreed to work on more videos in the near future and I am sure they will be as good or better than the one I had to take down.

Sorry if you feel mislead or cheated but it was the only thing I could do.

I will let you all know when we have more videos on tower climbing, hopefully in the very near future. Thanks for tuning in. Russ

[Andrew Gabriel]

[geoff]

In message , geoff writes

I did of course mean FEET not METRES there

[John Rumm]

Not by any chance:

[Andy Burns]

Apparently that's the problem, the copy we watched was downloaded and re-uploaded to youtube, after the guy had already taken it down from his own website and youtube account.

[Roberts]

Nor me and I used to work on cranes!>

[Roger Chapman]

I came across this thread too late to see the original but this clip would appear to show that the climber is using an automatic belay on the safety wire that runs up his corner of the tower.

[Andy Burns]

That video isn't the same climber, or the same tower; the original climber had no attachment to the tower except when he was stationary.

[Dave Liquorice]

But the butterflies come and go depending on the exposure. I think I'd be OK inside the lattice tower on the ladder but I wouldn't be on the outside and definitely not on the last sections with only smallish pegs to stand and hang onto with nothing but free air in almost every direction.

[Bill]

In message , Andrew Gabriel writes

Currently at:-

[tony sayer]

In article , Dave Liquorice scribeth thus

Yes called suspension trauma, not many people know about this and neither do that many medics. Doesn't happen all that often tho in the UK climbing such structures is very tightly regulated in the UK.

But useful to know about anyway..

[Tim Watts]

The straight climb on the first ascent (after the lift) didn't look bad. It was the heaving himself over projections to even less stable looking poles with random pegs on that got me.

Think of the sway on that too!

[ARWadsworth]

A bit of a bugger if you need a piss as well.

[tony sayer]

Well it is the USA and they do have more accidents with this type of work there than what the UK does. We do have some safety systems such as "Railok" which you can connect to and if you fall it locks up rather sharpish but generally in the UK free climbing is frowned on. Most ascents on high structures are made up one of the stay wires in a small lift bucket and we don't tend to have quite the same type of aerial structure at the top.

Heres one of how its done over here, this is a digital switchover aerial change and as you can see in some of the pix there is a ladder on the outside but you can go up the inside of the actual aerial part!. I've done some work like that, not that high 'tho, but it was tied on all the time which as said is rather tedious but you've only got to slip the once;!...

[dom]

Only for your climbing buddy below.

[dom]

Again, not mentioned. I imagine it would be stomach churning even in still air conditions.

[Andy Burns]

Seems more sensible, and notable that the company involved over here were happy to co-operate with publishing the pics of how the work is done. But the climber over there seems to have got cold feet thinking the company will take a dim view of seeing how the work there is done.

[The Natural Philosopher]

'golden rain'