Like heights? fed up in the office - new job vacancy going..

[cptsideways]

I nearly fell off my chair watching this


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44zk6UQcvEQ&fea...

[OMNIO]

HA! hes clipped on! What a wuss

[bigandclever]

[nonplussed]

F*ck. That.

[Pannywagon]

Yeesh - I had the tightening of the b*ll*cks watching that.

[LeoZwalf]

[hornetrider]

cptsideways said:

I nearly fell off my chair watching this


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44zk6UQcvEQ&fea...

I refer the honourable gentleman to the answer I gave some moments ago.

PH Clicky

[4mo]

OMG, I don't mind heights but that is something else.
I think I'd need to be wearing a parachute just in case I slip, never a better time to learn base jumping.

[CraigyMc]

"There's no fast way down".

I'd recommend they start letting these guys base jump off the towers. Must be marvellous fun.

I speak as a skydiving type.

C

[louiebaby]

Did I see a sister tower next to it???

RACE!

[bobda]

I've climbed up the inside of a 1200 foot one of them. In Nigeria...
I couldn't get far enough away to get a photo of the full height;

You can see the internal ladder in this;

[robm3]

Currently working in the Fall Protection Market, it's very interesting.

Commentary is wrong though, you don't need to 'Free Climb' because it's faster. There's dozens of rail and cable systems that don't require you to clip on every few feet, the shuttle just follows you up (but locks if you fall). That tower has a system in the first part of the climb but I was surprised it didn't have one on the external last part, meaning that external climb is one of the most dangerous I've seen


Good to see the following guy using our equipment though (Sala harness and Protecta Lanyard)

As a statistic, India has around 5 fall related deaths a week from Radio and Wind Towers and still they don't issue safety equipment at all.

[Big Al.]

bigandclever said:

Yep it's on here somewhere http://pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&amp...