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February 8, 2011 at 7:57 pm #1050391
I would never do this. I think I would start crying if I was told I had to do this.
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Just watching it makes my hands sweat. :you_crazy
February 8, 2011 at 8:17 pm #1235194Anonymous
i get kind of a high from heights, but i think that’s a bit far D:
February 8, 2011 at 8:29 pm #1235195Hi GiantMidget ,
Although not scared of height i do think that sort of height might turn a small pebble out in my pants !!!!!! . Mindyou is it just me but you ever stood by the edge of a high cliff and got the sudden urge to jump and take flight ? ….never would as i know i wouldn’t fly and splat at the bottom but there is that urge to take to the skies 🙂 .regards
Mungo
ps maybe i was a kamikaze pilot in a previous life !!! BANZI :-OFebruary 8, 2011 at 8:37 pm #1235204Personally I am not good with heights Mungo. I look down and go weak in the knees. Same goes with high cliffs. I can’t go to the edge, freaks me right out! :hopeless:
February 8, 2011 at 8:47 pm #1235196Hi GiantMidget ,
Don’t get me wrong i don’t have a suicidal tendency or anything but i do have this stupid urge to take to the air !!!! . You go weak at the knees looking down lol , but if your a giantmidget i guess your taller than the average midget and if so you could be 1700ft ..MASSIVE !!! 🙂 . They do say anything over ten thousand feet you need oxygen , how ever at the heights those people get to i think i’d need oxygen and some nice calm the f^%k down pills 🙂 …..that and a parachute 🙂 .Reach for the skies i say lol , you though just need to stand up 🙂
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MungoFebruary 8, 2011 at 9:05 pm #1235205I am a fair sized midget master. Not too big and not too small. But yeah heights. Not for me mate!
February 8, 2011 at 9:09 pm #1235197Hi GiantMidget ,
We all have our hang ups and any way a fear of heights is a healthy thing , we all know its not the fall that kills/hurts us . No its the sudden stop that does the damage :-O . Tis why i have springs attached to my feet 🙂regards
MungoFebruary 9, 2011 at 1:39 am #1235207Bunsen posted this a few months ago, it looks like a right buzz.
February 9, 2011 at 7:08 pm #1235209Would fucking love to do that.
Also, the worst job in the world is working 9am-4am at a traveling fair clearing up puke and being shouted at by pikeys, whilst constantly working on throwing your back out so badly you can’t work again for a month, and getting paid 40 quid for it, then getting up and doing the same thing the next day.
Trust me on that one 😛
February 9, 2011 at 7:48 pm #1235208They must shit themselves if the wind ever picks up!
I’d love to do that on a calm sunny day, just the once mind. Carry a rucksack with a parachute in it and jump off the top. :crazy_diz
February 9, 2011 at 9:06 pm #1235200I’m not “scared” of heights or confined spaces (have to deal with both at work) but its not the sort of thing I’d care to do (although the bit with the handgrips isn’t as bad as it looks). More worried about radiation though than the height!
those towers are made to be very stable, as if they were waving about in the wind all the antennas on them would have dodgy coverage and everyone would be cursing as their TV, mobile phones, two way radios (often important ones used by the emergency services) and in some cases even their Internet wasn’t working…
February 10, 2011 at 3:49 am #1235206@General Lighting 419285 wrote:
those towers are made to be very stable, as if they were waving about in the wind weren’t all the antennas on them would have dodgy coverage and everyone would be cursing as their TV, mobile phones, two way radios and in some cases even their Internet wasn’t working…
I’m sure this happens to alot of people anyway unless it’s hardwired in. lol
February 10, 2011 at 8:35 pm #1235198Hi All ,
I do think they do move with the wind , maybe not as much as some really tall tower blocks but they will move a bit . Yes as they are only frame work of metal and not solid as in a sky scrapper but they do move with the wind , if it was totally rigid it would take more stress on its frames . If that makes sense 🙂regards
MungoFebruary 10, 2011 at 8:47 pm #1235201There’s a certain amount of movement allowed but its within strict tolerances. it depends what the antennas are doing and how critical they are. if they are functional for broadcasting (especially digital) they should be safe enough to climb.
Normally something like KISS broadcasting pop dance for chavs from Mendlesham would be viewed as less critical than a point to point link for Airwave or the MOD. A lot of the satellite dishes on towers are in fact now only used as backups in case fibre optic cables stop working…
I could probably find out next time I go down the pub, a fair few of my drinking buddies work at BT and although we don’t have this sort of huge tower in the UK there are a fair few smaller structures around the country.
I think our EU safety rules are much harsher than the USA so they wouldn’t let you work without a harness, nor would engineers be sent out in adverse weather conditions. In fact I know for sure that Voda have delayed even essential maintenance work due to the recent weather as it wasn’t safe for their chaps and these are just normal mobile towers!
February 10, 2011 at 9:37 pm #1235199he has the little hooky thing.. if that paid well then i would maybe consider it, i bet you get used to the heights quite quickly 🙂
February 10, 2011 at 10:50 pm #1235202Here is helmet camera film from the world s biggest ski jump hill;
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(watch in full screen, its full HD)..and these guys do it for fun!
February 12, 2011 at 8:33 am #1235203BTW the new world record in ski jump is now 246,5m, made last night in the vikersund(the hill in the film above)
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