Job here for Adam?

All that to change a bulb/

I could not do that for £100 million.

That is the worst sort of climbing - it's not like ladders where there is a gradient.

Yeahbut, the pansies doing it are wearing harnesses and using safety lines. Pfft. Piece of piss with that lot on. ;-)

More seriously though, I do not like heights but will happily go climbing with a rope and harness. It makes a huge difference when you have confidence in your kit.

Tim

Yes you would, so would I.

Wouldn't one of your apprentices be able to change a lamp?

G.Harman

That's just climbing a baby tower

And do you notice that at the top he's basically climbing on the antenna components? That seems unsafe (in a relative way) because a stepping peg

- well that's obvious what it's for - but how does he know *that* bit of the antenna is strong enough?

Certainly not a job of an OCD victim like me - I'd get half way down then think "did I do up all the screws around the waterproof gasket?"

Not that I'd be up there anyway...

And bicycle clips on your trousers...

Think it's still better than this (pylon lines)

Look at those bastards wobbling

In article , ARW scribeth thus

This one up a tower is far more fun and looks a lot better;)..

Most of Adam's apprentices can hardly change their own socks.

Owain

They're for the benefit of those below, though.

That will be strong enough believe me. It'll polly be made of high tensile solid steel it won't be made of thin walled ally tubing like what a domestic TV aerial is;!...

Well I've been in such places, not quite that high tho, but past a certain height it doesn't make a lot of odds anyway if you fall off, then you've just got a little more time for your life to flash by you;!.

I see one of them was using a "baby walker" when you clip on and climb a bit then clip on with the other then climb and repeat until your up there which is rather long winded. Better systems use a system called "Railok" where you are "connected" to a rail can go one way easily but not the other, like a ratchet system so if you fall it isn't going to be that much of a drop.

Climbing towers that height most if there're doing any serious work use a winch to pull them up a stay wire. If the towers big enough have an internal lift but most towers in the states aren't that big enough in cross section to do that sort of thing...

I was a lot happier watching him do the clip/unclip than the guy in the other big aerial video who didn't clip till he stopped. The clip/unclip didn't seem to slow him down that much.

How do they handle the descent?

The apprentice f***ed up the "What is the difference between a sock and a camera?" joke.

On 28 Mar 2015, tony sayer grunted:

Christ! I think I'm in love...

Bit difficult to describe but usually it is allowed to fall on the rail so as long as your going down slowly then OK but make that fast then it locks up very sharpish..

In article , Lobster scribeth thus

Use to have a girlfriend who did that sort of thing, was a airline pilot during the day but daredevil when not at work;)...