It's days to like today I wish I had an office job

[ARWadsworth]

Moving light fittings across by 60cm at about 9m to10m high is not my idea of fun.

A nice delivery of paperclips would be preferable

[TMC]

[ARWadsworth]

No. I had a cherry picker and shit load of non electrical cables and sprinkler pipes in my way.

Their scissor lift better be ready for my use in the morning so that I can finish off.

[Tim Watts]

I just got 2 days working from home approved.

You didn't want to hear that did you ;-o

My job does not require a body[1] - I could pretty much degrade to a brain- in-a-jar and do this stuff.

[1] Except when I have to hump 45kg disk arrays into 19" racks.

But I have spent recent days (and the next few weekends) rummaging aroun dthe mouse plop infested attic voids with bits of cable and pipes if that makes you feel better...

Now 10m - that's heigher than my chimney stack by about 3m. I do believe I would shit myself.

[Tim Watts]

Oh - that doesn't sound so bad. You are supposed to slash through the various other cables. If they don't go bang, they weren't live and were obviously obsolete - you were doing them a favour - right?

Where you on the controls, or did you have to shout directions to the bloke with the cherrypicker ticket so he could have "fun" ramming you into various obstacles while claiming he didn't hear you right?

[ARWadsworth]

We had the controls. It was a two man cherry picker.

However the warehouse supplied a banksman ie a fork lift truck driver to make sure no-one walked or drove underneath underneath us. He did a might fine job and even bollocked his boss for trying to squeeze past.

[ARWadsworth]

Thanks mate:-(

You sort of get used to it after a while. Just like working on a ladder. When I was 16 I would never go up a ladder to a bell box or an outside light on the gable end of a typical sized house. I now will do so without bothering about it.

You really have to turn a part of your brain off to work at 10m heights. I am in worship of those that work at much higher heights.

Of course rule no1 is to make sure that the body harness will not trap your bollocks if you fall. Rule no 2 is to remember to attatch the harness to the picker.

[geoff]

Well, if not, there's a scissor lift outside the alleyway doors here waiting for a pikey to nick it

[Owain]

This depends on whether your priority is to stay alive or keep your bollocks

I can understand you would prefer to be dead rather than bollock-less and alive.

Owain