Scariest thing I've ever seen - watch in fullscreen or full effect
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'elf & safety - TV tower style
Sep 16, 2010
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first image is ... interesting.
(I'd supply a URL to it, but Google seem to have f*cked up image search. "Do no evil", my arse.)
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you've gone up a few hundred feet you get used to it. At least the tower is reasonably safe to climb and things are not falling down on you. I've done plenty of abseiling where rocks are likely to fall on you. I've also abseiled down a couple of waterfalls which is quite fun.
But I think this:
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is on a par with it.
Jesus wept, I dunno whether that demonstrates guts or stupidity.
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> Once you've gone up a few hundred feet you get used to it. At least
Try canyonning - lots of fun.
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Mike Harrison saying something like:
but this one works ;-)
Indeed. At least the aerial cowboys do it because somebody pays them.
Chris
The story on this place:
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I would not do either, even if the pay was very generous.
The first image leads to a broken link but the second one is
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It is quite genuine, I have seen a similar video before of the same mast and I recall there is another very close to it. There was a very similar climbing pattern & equally miserable safety system shown on television not so long ago, the task was to climb and document *at night* the electrical junctions and arrays on the Empire State Building.
The bottom part was "acceptable" ladder climbing. What terrified was where the ladder ran out... and he was left to climb "spike steps"... past a lightning tree to snag you... then test around the grey beams for a handhold to pull up past a triangular I- beam platform... then up little more than a pole to stand on the very top "iphone-sized" shelf on the very top of the pole re light.
You need incredible confidence that nothing has rusted, is properly secured, to me knowing other people's workmanship it seems little more than russian roulette. Unbelievable confidence and balance required... no middle ear infection need apply.
Worse is getting down... because you have to look for and find every step.
Me too. I need a stiff drink.
I think the bit of video, which I had somewhere, has Tom Silliman ( what a name) doing a repair up there at night the only time they'd let him do that job!.
Still here he is here in daylight attending to An Alan Dick spearhead type wideband mixed polarisation VHF/FM array!....
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Dave
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