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warren



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I guarantee one of these will give you sweaty palms...
... and if not you have balls of absolute steel!!

On top of the Burj Khalifa, Dubai...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPRjkTnTZIs&feature=related

Fearless Russian kids on a transmitter tower...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfZ1NyS6Mzw&feature=related

Climbing a TV transmitter...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k4Xk1mEwmI
Post #101042 19th Nov 2011 7:13pm
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It it normal to get pins and needles in your a*se when you watch things like this?
I always wondered... Tell someone you love them today because life is short.
But shout it at them in German because life is also terrifying and confusing...
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The last one is worst. I think its because it shows the actual climbing. When I used to work on power poles, being at the top was fine, it was getting up and down that raised the heart rate quite a bit! 2011 110 USW
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No worries !!! oh i forgot i erect tower cranes for a living, probably a bit unhinged !!! If everything is under control you are not going fast enough.

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Seen the last one before .. rather him than me Confused
Those kids made my stomach lurch ... mental Shocked Guns and Landrovers .... anything else is irrelevant.
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warren



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They all make me feel queezy ( that Russian kid just standing up casually though... JEEEEZUS!!! - or the bloke just sat at the top of the Burj Khalifa not attached to anything...) but when that bloke is climbing the mast, without being attached to any sort of safety gear... Are they allowed to do that in the UK? Or still allowed to do it anywhere?

I'm not really bothered by heights, as long as I feel relatively safe, but blimey, no way would I be able to do something like that.
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warren wrote:
They all make me feel queezy ( that Russian kid just standing up casually though... JEEEEZUS!!! - or the bloke just sat at the top of the Burj Khalifa not attached to anything...) but when that bloke is climbing the mast, without being attached to any sort of safety gear... Are they allowed to do that in the UK? Or still allowed to do it anywhere?

I'm not really bothered by heights, as long as I feel relatively safe, but blimey, no way would I be able to do something like that.


Nope, any work at height in the UK must be undertaken with proper fall-arrest equipment. Not to do so would be an HSE job. Not to say it never happens, mind you... 2011 110 USW
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