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Offline andyf

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Vertigo!
« on: July 07, 2011, 01:28:51 PM »
I haven't much of a head for heights. Being up a ladder to clean out the gutters gets me worried.
So I'm glad never to have had a job like this  :bugeye: Even watching the 8 minute video made me feel jittery!

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Re: Vertigo!
« Reply #1 on: July 07, 2011, 02:46:07 PM »
Saw that a while ago, good to watch though even if it does make me feel sick

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Re: Vertigo!
« Reply #2 on: July 07, 2011, 04:41:31 PM »
I would be fine with that, until the internal ladder ended.... after that, I'd want a safety line!

Of course, what the video doesn't show, is that pole is probably swinging about all over the place in the wind, which must make it quite wobbly on top...
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Re: Vertigo!
« Reply #3 on: July 07, 2011, 05:30:30 PM »
That would get the juces flowing
I have done a lot of rope acess work (mainly underground)
I am good with height but tying on is not that difficult or time consuming
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Re: Vertigo!
« Reply #4 on: July 12, 2011, 06:16:12 AM »
I've done my fair share of mountain climbing, but that even makes my palms a little sweaty!
I would most definitely don't do it without safety, though. Especially not those parts on top.
Can't help but think they get a rather nice pay though, and as such can probably spend a LOT of time on their hobbies...
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Re: Vertigo!
« Reply #5 on: July 12, 2011, 03:05:07 PM »
I've done a little bit of this, cell phones.
As I watched the opening scenes and the guy started to climb the structure I thought "he's not clipped on, can't be, :bugeye: nah must be ..........oh American that explains it"
 
Not for me that way, must have Indian blood (that guy)

just watching him clip on with that crappy scaff clip to a peg on the pogo stick made me shiver.

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Re: Vertigo!
« Reply #6 on: July 12, 2011, 04:12:02 PM »
Here's another one with a high  :bugeye: factor: El Camino del Rey in Spain. It's a footpath, sort of, but parts of it need a bit of restoration....



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I've cut the end off it twice, but it's still too short