catfan 14,793 Posted July 16, 2015 Report Share Posted July 16, 2015 Is this bloke "Normal" or what ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted July 16, 2015 Report Share Posted July 16, 2015 Just above ground level? Try this Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted July 16, 2015 Report Share Posted July 16, 2015 There's a team of "hams" over here do antenna repair work, OK you say, well try jobs on towers up to 2000 feet towers!! They charge over $100 an hour, minimum a full days work. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Booth 7,364 Posted July 16, 2015 Report Share Posted July 16, 2015 This one had 'a bad day at the office' http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=be4_1426763443 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
banjo48 928 Posted July 17, 2015 Report Share Posted July 17, 2015 As a young fellow I used to work on rooves with my dad, a builder, he would think nothing of shinning up a triple extender wooden ladder with a crawler ladder on his shoulder and stick the crawler up to the chimney stacks while I footed the ladder then climbed to the junction to pass dad a bucket of mortar or some slates, while he sat happily on the roof. Then in my 30's I became a Telecom tech and did the pole climbing thing and again used to go up and down some real scary big telegraph poles, especiallly around Sherwood and Mapperley park, in all weathers. As I grew older I have become a wuss with heights and now actually fear them ! just watching part of those videos with the idiots playing with their lives scares me to death ! As we become older I think our lives become more precious, mine has anyway. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Booth 7,364 Posted July 17, 2015 Report Share Posted July 17, 2015 Your last comment is so true, banjo48. Many of the Nottstalgians have health problems and value every minute of their lives. Then they see videos like the one's above where people gamble with their lives. And let's not forget that any mistake is certain death, as is shown in my post #4. But lets not also forget that the young have always gambled with their lives in one form or another and always will. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
terence12 725 Posted July 17, 2015 Report Share Posted July 17, 2015 mick2me post #2, watched the video for about 4 mins, now i am sitting at home looking at a screen and i feel sick and woozy watching, god knows how these lads can do this, on the one hand you have to say, bloody stupid idiots etc. but then again they have obviously got guts i mean would you do it. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted July 17, 2015 Report Share Posted July 17, 2015 NO! They could have took a new light bulb up with them? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted July 17, 2015 Report Share Posted July 17, 2015 Some enjoy climbing towers for a living, after all, someone has to install and maintain those antennas on towers, and not all towers have lifts. Over here, if a warning lamp fails on top of a 200 foot tower upwards, the FCC and FAA levy a huge fine. On the real big towers, the guys carry a toilet roll and a couple of empty plastic bottles....I'll let you guess what for...LOL Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted July 17, 2015 Report Share Posted July 17, 2015 I used to have a mate who frequently went up this tower at Walnut Grove, Ca, to service his commercial radio repeater and antennas. This tower has a lift from ground level to the radio vault. He said it takes about 30 minutes to ascend the tower. The tower carried several local TV stations, with the main amplifiers at ground level, one was 6Mw!! That was channel 3 in Sacramento pre digital broadcasting. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted July 17, 2015 Report Share Posted July 17, 2015 Its funny, i've sort of gone the other way. When I was an apprentice I was scared of heights, but had to make best of it or lose the job. I'll never forget working on re-wiring the RC Cathedreal on Derby Rd. in the early 60s. I was scared crawling around the scaffolding trying to run Pyro. No where near as high as the guys on the video are going. But I had heard of guys dying from falls of just a few feet. As I've gotten older I'm not so bothered and will happily run up a ladder, much to my wife's dismay. Maybe when you know that most of your life is now behind it you it doesn't bother you so much? Just saw an item on the news last night that more over 65s die from complications of falls than just about anything else. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted July 17, 2015 Report Share Posted July 17, 2015 My climbing days are done, my knees are screwed up from crawling on low faces years ago. I used to climb small towers, but now its crank up tilt overs from me or straight tilt overs where I can install my antennas at ground level. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted July 17, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2015 My neighbour when a builder roofer used to laugh at my fear of heights. He once said to me "Catfan" if that roof was on your back garden you would run up & down it all day long without a problem. Just think that he said. Sod that. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted July 21, 2015 Report Share Posted July 21, 2015 29 Sep 1932, Manhattan, New York City, New York State, USA --- Construction workers eat their lunches atop a steel beam 800 feet above ground, at the building site of the RCA Building in Rockefeller Center. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gibbo 04 188 Posted July 21, 2015 Report Share Posted July 21, 2015 What!?! No health and safety, don't those chaps know smoking can kill you! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted July 21, 2015 Report Share Posted July 21, 2015 Meks me palms sweat just looking at them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted July 21, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2015 Top deck on a bus is too high for me. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted July 21, 2015 Report Share Posted July 21, 2015 If God had wanted me to like heights, he'd have given me wings. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tomlinson 879 Posted July 21, 2015 Report Share Posted July 21, 2015 High tea. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted July 21, 2015 Report Share Posted July 21, 2015 Well I can cope with that !!!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Braddy 160 Posted July 21, 2015 Report Share Posted July 21, 2015 Looking up is just as bad Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted July 21, 2015 Report Share Posted July 21, 2015 Looking up can be pretty risky, them pesky birds have good aims...LOL 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted July 21, 2015 Report Share Posted July 21, 2015 Top deck on a bus is too high for me. A friend of mine had problems standing up he was seven foot tall Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted February 11, 2017 Report Share Posted February 11, 2017 Always remember this bloke saying to me in the Crown "cracking photos your lad posted from that crane in Nottingham" his Mam went mad when I told her ....... grounded. It's long, its longer than Eastenders, but boy this youths mad! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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