heights anyone????

toad67

Not for me.......
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=41d_1284595041

Oakie

I got sick halfway through the video. [xx(]

catpealer111

I can't climb a 3 foot step ladder since my back surgery. I go up just fine but my legs don't quite work right enough to go back down.

1880texan

Nothing like the good old days. Riding the head ache ball on a crane with the operator giving you the scenic tour swinging in the air above the job and then free falling you a couple of hundred feet before hitting the brakes. Of course OSHA/safety made that illegal now days.

bhale187

A couple of guys I was friends with in high school climb those communication towers, I think they are nuts

fishkiller41

Maaaaa...No problem at all.
Take your time,frequent rests and just get the job done.
Those guys make great money and I'd take the job in a NY second!!

select-fire

I quit watching when they said free climbing..no safety lines.

COLT

...That would be neat to do if for no other reason than to pee off the top!

Scaredy-cats...nothing to worry about, you wear a safety helmet...[^]

countryfarmer

F that....no way in the world I could do that

ole44

shoot he is all tied off , ironworker would laugh

evileye fleagal

i can feel my forearms burning, that was the only spots that really hurt.

djh860

I climbed the whitney gilman ridge in NH 1200 feet of straight up rock

KEVD18

i cant stand it when people use the not word "heighth". thats not a word. its completely and totally made up and sounds stupid. acrosst as well.

other than that, that video makes me want to vomit. if i was tied into a harness, i'd climb to the moon. no safety, no way.

LaidbackDan

I don't think a fall from that tower would kill you anymore than a fall from a forty foot tower.









The coroner would need a bigger spatula though.

redneckandy

Balls of steel. I don't mind heights but I don't think I could handle that.

toad67

I know that the suction from my * wouldn't let me get higher than 25 feet[;)]

bambambam

I saw that one before.

It scares the hell out of me just watching the video![:0]

victorlvlb

The day after the climb is a killer. I never climbed one that high, and I was sore for a week.

toad67

legs or a puckered b-hole[:D]quote:Originally posted by victorlvlb
The day after the climb is a killer. I never climbed one that high, and I was sore for a week.

kidthatsirish

I suppose he could carry a parachute on his back...he is high enough he would plenty of time for it to open.[:D]

Of course whether or not it would be able to open properly while he is falling next to a tower might be an entirely different matter.[}:)]

mossberg500man

i dont mind heights but [:0] damn that looks scary

bigboy12

quote:Originally posted by 1880texan
Nothing like the good old days. Riding the head ache ball on a crane with the operator giving you the scenic tour swinging in the air above the job and then free falling you a couple of hundred feet before hitting the brakes. Of course OSHA/safety made that illegal now days.

Swinging from a basket on a crane a couple hundred feet up was fun, too. If the crane operator was having a bad day or just didn't like you, it could get pretty hairy.

bigboy12

My boss on my first iron working job told me that it's not the fall that kills you, it's the sudden stop that does it.

allen griggs

If it were up to me that tower would never get repaired. In fact it wouldn't have been built in the first place.

I have jumped out of airplanes, and I have flown hang gliders off the mountains many times. Didn't bother me being 1,500 feet above the ground in a hang glider.
Somehow climbing is different, I can't stand to be more than 20 feet high if I am climbing and don't even like to take an elevator up in a tall building.

Those guys climbing that tower have got some guts.