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Started by Monsterlover, September 15, 2010, 11:43:10 AM

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Monsterlover

September 15, 2010, 11:43:10 AM
For the most part I can handle heights.

Not this though.

No way Id take this job.

SWTH.flv
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DesmoDiva

#1
September 15, 2010, 11:51:09 AM
 :o :o

Holy cow!!!

I couldn't even watch the whole thing.  He didn't even look like he was "clipped in" for parts.

I guess if you did it all the time you would get desensitized to the height.

Not for me. 
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#2
September 15, 2010, 11:53:43 AM
Ha saw this on my clubs site.. shits crazy..  yea he free climbs at the top cuz it'll take too long to clamp every other step.. osha approved too lol..
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#3
September 15, 2010, 12:03:40 PM
good thing they have helmets on... ;D
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#4
September 15, 2010, 12:13:29 PM
Ya...I'll pass on that.  :o

fastwin

#5
September 15, 2010, 12:23:33 PM
There was a great video (I think it was on an old thread) about guys who work off helicopters and climb onto very high power lines then they crawl on the lines while working on them hundreds of feet in the air. Oh yeah, the fun part was the gazillion volts of electricity passing through the lines and yet the workers did not get electrocuted. I forget the reason they don't get zapped but the narrator explains it. Anyone remember that vid or thread?
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Monsterlover

#6
September 15, 2010, 12:28:16 PM
Never saw that one but it probably has something to do with touching only one wire.

Like how birds can sit up there and not cook.

Check out this free climbing nut ball

Awesome Dan Osman Fast Climbing

Pretty cool, but scary
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#7
September 15, 2010, 12:33:10 PM
I used to skydive alot, that vid made me very uneasy though

and now off to torment people i know with it  ;D
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#8
September 15, 2010, 12:40:51 PM
Quote from: Monsterlowsider on September 15, 2010, 11:43:10 AM
For the most part I can handle heights.

Not this though.

No way Id take this job.

SWTH.flv

buddy of mine in tx used to do this.. he wasn't right in the head.  ;D
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#9
September 15, 2010, 12:41:31 PM
Quote from: Monsterlowsider on September 15, 2010, 12:28:16 PM
Never saw that one but it probably has something to do with touching only one wire.

Like how birds can sit up there and not cook.

Check out this free climbing nut ball

Awesome Dan Osman Fast Climbing

Pretty cool, but scary

he's kinda dead, though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Osman
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fastwin

#10
September 15, 2010, 12:45:52 PM
I found the video on youtube but I can't make it work as a link. [bang] Look for the High Voltage Cable Inspection vid on youtube. Interesting explanation in the video regarding the worker not being zapped. You're some what right about the bird on the wire comment.
I plan to list the Federal Gov't. as a dependent on my next 1040 tax filing!

I have flying honey badgers and I'm not afraid to use them!

The fact that flame throwers exist is proof that someone somewhere said "I'd sure like to set those people over there on fire but I'm just not close enough to get the job done."

CONFIDENCE: the feeling you have right before you understand the situation.

ducpainter

#11
September 15, 2010, 12:49:29 PM
Quote from: rc51 on September 15, 2010, 12:45:52 PM
I found the video on youtube but I can't make it work as a link. [bang] Look for the High Voltage Cable Inspection vid on youtube. Interesting explanation in the video regarding the worker not being zapped. You're some what right about the bird on the wire comment.
That was posted a while ago on here...

it's a good thing some people aren't quite...right...eh? ;D
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a completely different way than you, you will be open to understand how that
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    is even more amazing than yours."
    To realize the value of nine  months:
    Ask a mother who gave birth to a stillborn.
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Speeddog

#12
September 15, 2010, 12:52:10 PM Last Edit: September 15, 2010, 01:02:27 PM by Speeddog
Quote from: derby on September 15, 2010, 12:41:31 PM
he's kinda dead, though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Osman


Kinda ironic that a freeclimber died due to a rope failure.  :P

OT, ummm....no, I'd not like that job.
No heights for me.
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#13
September 15, 2010, 01:46:55 PM
I tell ppl that I'm not afraid of heights.
Now that I see this, I'll rephrase that I'm not afraid of heights that I've been on.
But I noticed that my palms were getting sweaty with apprehension when I viewed this video.
I would worry most about my 1) endurance, 2) the structural integrity of the object that I was climbing, 3) birds, and lastly 4) the wind.
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lethe

#14
September 15, 2010, 02:23:08 PM
I am not afraid of the video that was removed.  [cheeky]

I'm pretty ok with heights having stood on the railings of a 90ft lift to reach something while it swayed back and forth.
I'm also regularly of the top of hi rises, often going up a bit higher if the top of a cooling tower isn't recessed into the roof a bit.
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