One of the things I was doing was replacing the odd cracked tile, although the bulk of the job was stripping back to the rafters to replace the felt which had also failed after the resulting water running down it rotted it. The no-name 1970 concrete tiles took my weight fine, but the nearest Marley ones I could find for replacements cracked every time if you stood on them.
In article , Bill scribeth thus
TX wasn't powered up when he was working on it?...
In article , somebody scribeth thus
Yes they do that they have a bit that comprises of a long lump of webbing which is stitched together and the weight of the falling body tears this apart.
Of course your rate of fall may vary depending on, well, your weight!...
In message , John writes
I thought haggises (haggi?) had three legs.
They must be terrorists these days as they're prohibited from entering the USA in their prepared form. See
Indeed, I went parachuting one weekend, even looked on as they carried one woman to an ambulance with a fairly serious leg injury, then hopped in the plane and fell 5,000ft no problems at all. The following Saturday I was on Dartmoor, when I slipped off a rock less than a foot high, ended up using a tent pole as a walking stick, to get the several painful miles to a road, found out on the Monday at hospital that I had broken my ankle, I guess the black/purple bruising should have given me a clue!
Not according to Newton.
In message , Andrew Gabriel writes
LoL - but the effect on your body of interfacing with the ground will do.
In article , Andrew Gabriel scribeth thus
No but he wasn't restrained;)...
In message , Bill writes
They sound like *deck shoes* intended for yachtsmen. Good grip without damaging the varnish.
regards
.. or wellingtons.
That seems to me to be exactly the same scenario :-)
Mary
Falling still would not be the problem its the hitting the ground that hurts
Paul
He walked *down* the slope to the *ridge*?
Was the architects name Escher?
MBQ
I knew someone who fell from 750feet (before the days of harnesses) The people in the hospital didn't believe him. He'd landed on another aerial 30 feet lower and bent it. His firm got the bill for the repairs.
In article , snipped-for-privacy@privacy.net scribeth thus
Bloody amazing!.. where did that happen then?..
If your permitted to say publicly that is!...
He should have prayed for rain. ;-)
A guuy fell off the 42nd floor of some Trump building in New York recently. He survived by hitting the 40th floor.
In message , tony sayer writes
No, he didn't notice where the sparks from his angle grinder were going!
Deck shoes typically have a flat rubber sole with "razor cuts" in them.
It already occurred to my that my dinghy boots would be a good choice next time I'm up there!
Andy
Read what is written, I didn't the first time either... B-)
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