Today I have been playing on this

[Simon_m]

Just started my new job and today we have been training on this thing



Good job I'm not scared of heights

[Simpo Two]

Linesman?

[Blib]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qoymGCDYzU

[100SRV]

I reckon the OP has become a pigeon!

[Digby]

At least it's wide and looks like it should be standing.I did the tower crane thing for a short while and they were 300 foot and about the same width as me!

[Menguin]

Simpo Two said:

Linesman?

They're called referee's assistants now you sexist pig

[Simon_m]

Telecoms engineer, rigging and commissioning microwave links. This is only a little one, some can be 4 times bigger.

Got to work on a mast tommorrow which is just as big but about as wide as me (as someone has said already)

[OnTheOverrun]

Simpo Two said:

Linesman?

Nope, he's a pikey. He dismantles electricity pylons to sell them to the scrappy.

[Simon_m]

OnTheOverrun said:

Simpo Two said:

Linesman?

Nope, he's a pikey. He dismantles electricity pylons to sell them to the scrappy.

[Simpo Two]

Simon_m said:

Telecoms engineer, rigging and commissioning microwave links. This is only a little one, some can be 4 times bigger.

Got to work on a mast tommorrow which is just as big but about as wide as me (as someone has said already)

Make sure it's switched off or it's 'bye bye gonads'. Years ago in Nottingham I heard of a prank whereby somebody had put a chair on top of a radio mast - they said the culprit had almost certainly sterilised himself...

[GTIR]

I was going to get my rig access cert partly to cure my fear of heights.

Never did it as the course was in Coventry and I couldn't overcome my fear of said town.

My plan was to clean the outside of the Gerkin in London.

[Simon_m]

Simpo Two said:

Simon_m said:

Telecoms engineer, rigging and commissioning microwave links. This is only a little one, some can be 4 times bigger.

Got to work on a mast tommorrow which is just as big but about as wide as me (as someone has said already)

Make sure it's switched off or it's 'bye bye gonads'. Years ago in Nottingham I heard of a prank whereby somebody had put a chair on top of a radio mast - they said the culprit had almost certainly sterilised himself...

One of the instructors told us about about a story he had heard, although he did say this may be an urban myth.

There is an army base in Finland that listens for Russian subs. The guys working there realised that in the winter you could stand in front of the antenna array to warm your self up. Normally the array would be working at 50% power, however one day the operators got wind that some subs would be launched and turned the array up to full power. The guys go for there usual warming up, unaware the array was running at full tilt, 3 minutes later they were nicely toasted to the front of their bodies

So yeah, I won't be going anywhere near to them if powered up.

[escargot]

I would actually st my pants if I had to climb up that thing. ACTUAL st.


I don't like heights

[fullbeem]

100SRV said:

I reckon the OP has become a pigeon!

Or practicing for fathers for justice

[Simpo Two]

There was a good TV drama a few years ago about a team of people who had the job of painting pylons for a living. They just went round the country painting pylons day after day.

I'm struggling to think of a worse job...

[Morningside]

I was told by a linesman (EDF) that the first test he had to do was take a rope up and over the top - Fail that (ie fright) then there is no point any more training.

[Oakey]

Hi, a few weeks ago someone working on a local pylon fell and badly injured himself.

Have fun.

[normalbloke]

I used to do aerial (not antennae) surveys of pipelines by helicopter.I remember flying over the 2 huge pylons that cross the Thames just east of the Dartford crossing,and looking down at 2 people working on it and thinking I could never do that.They may well have been looking up thinking exactly the same.I have never been great with heights, although for some reason it was never a factor in an aircraft.
The company I work for now do non intrusive underground corrosion assessment of pylon legs and checks on the concrete foundations(chimney,cap+muff).
Don't fall off!

[Frankeh]

How did you get into that job? It looks like fun.
Good pay?

What's your actual job title?

[pits]

100SRV said:

I reckon the OP has become a pigeon!

ETA: I think he has become a shoe collector, yet fancied it up with words like microwaves

Edited by pits on Wednesday 26th August 12:25