I will never complain about heights again.

 

Only special people can do that!
I worked in the seamless gutter trade for 28 years, never had a fear of heights. I always said I had a fear of depth!!!

I enjoyed training new guys on 2nd and 3rd stories. After that they were confortable on 1 and 2 stories.

Also i told my people to not keep an arm above the heart for more than 1 minute. blood runs down hill. ( some would take more than a minute to climb 2-3 stories) ( they didn't last.)
I even had one guy who would shake out of control with his feet 12 inches of off the ground!!! Guys nick named him 'shake rattle and roll!!'

 

3:12 into the video I had to stop! Just too much for me.

 

Even taking a parachute with you doesn't guarantee you're going home that night......Ben

 

Heights don't really bother me (except for this!!) as long as I know I'm reasonably safe from falling. That video is insane though!!

 

Not a chance in hell I'll free climb from that height. If I'm tied off, I'm good to go.

 

I'm the guy that starts shaking a foot off the ground, watching the video made me want to throw up!!

 

I am with you there I felt sick just watching too.

 

I always thought this stuff took some cahunas.




I run a 50' bucket truck for electrical work, that's plenty high for me!

 

Heck, thats not so bad. They get to take an elevator up to 1600 feet and climb from there.
Plus they wear helmets in case they fall.
I am also assuming that they wear adult diapers in case they poop their pants (I know I would have to wear two.

Fordzilla:
That guy was probably alright wasnt he? I mean he looked alright. And the snow looked soft.
He had a parachute and everything so he must be ok.

gorms: Thats something else I couldnt do. I tried topping a 30 foot tree. That was too much for me.

 

That wasn't base jumping. That was the audition for the new Wile E. Coyote film due out next summer. They just didn't add the sound effects to it, so that's probably why you didn't recognize it.

 

My luck I would have climbed all the way to the top and then found out someone turned the transmitter back on.

I don't think they said how long it takes to climb the tower but it looks like they take a break ever few feet.

I wonder what a lightening strike to the tower would feel like?

How would they rescue an unconscious worker?
Do they have their own rescue or would they have to rely on the local Fire Department to climb the tower and lower you by rope?

I think it would be neat for at least once in your lifetime to jump from that height in a wingsuit.



It would be like falling horizontally, or like you were a flying squirrel.

Jim

 

You wouldn't feel a thing.

 

I don't know about you guys, but the entire time I watched that video, I felt a tingling in my hamstrings, and a sincere bout of nausea.


I don't walk anything over 2 stories, and I can't imagine what they are thinking while on that tower.


Truly amazing what we, as human beings, are capable of building....

 

Glad to see there are at least three others who felt the same thing.........