Have only two questions after reading the following. Would any of you work on this job? Would any of you take a stroll along this "road" once it is completed?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...liff-face.html

 

No and Never!


I thought the DTR Janitor had the most dangerous job...

 

The janitor risks his life just getting close to the coffee pot but doesnt stand too much of a chance of falling to death (unless he slips off the toilet again).

Be interested to see that project when its done.

 

That's nothing try working at this job for a week. Unless you have wings this job would scare the EDIT out of me. All that just to change a bulb.

 

Even a long time ago I wouldnt have been able to do that last 60 feet.

 

I don't see the problem, they're all wearing harnesses. I can't see where the harnesses are attached to anything, but they've got them on.

 

Never mind that. . . I would need to have an ambulance follow me when climbing it!

Now which one is more dangerous?

 

just not no but hell no i would not climb that

 

If I had to climb that I would have Pelosied myself several times before getting half way up the tower.

 

EDIT: I got beat to the punch... Sorry

But still, this one takes the cake for me...

I watch it and my hands immediately start sweating...lol

 

It appears to my expert eye that the "road" is going to be concrete (which I happen to know a thing or two about). I think that rickety platform they're standing on is just a temporary work platform.

Case in point, I see rebar...



And I see concrete...



I'm assuming at some point there will also be handrails, but it's always possible that they're insane and will try it without.

 

I have seen pictures and articles from China where they use bamboo tied with rope as scaffolding and run it upside high rise building to work on the outside. They jump around like kids on a toy set and no safety harnesses. Outside of a wing and a prayer, I don't know how it stayed up.

 

I've read that bamboo is actually stronger per square inch than steel...even so, no way in the world I would do that job, they look to be as safe as the welders over there

 

OK,that tower climb makes me feel sick. I know that once you are more than 30 or so feet up it doesn't matter any more but that still gives me the *******. I couldn't do it, plain and simple.

 

I've seen this with my very eyes in Singapore. Super easy to move and build the scaffold, some of the laborers just strap a bunch of lengths to their back. And as you say, absolutely unreal how easily they clamber around on it. The price of a life is not very high in other parts of the world.