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Afraid of Heights? This Job May Not be for You...

09/19/2010 8:42 PM

Antennaclimb

Is that Thunder I hear?

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09/19/2010 9:58 PM

Can you say pucker, boys and girls????????????
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09/20/2010 12:29 AM

Windy or rainy might be bad enough; thunderstormy, hell, no. It would take me an hour or two to climb this, but if conditions were okay, I wouldn't mind, so long as the pay was decent.

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09/20/2010 12:34 AM

Pay, hell!!!!!!!

You'd have to be shoving loaded guns into body cavities to get me up there.
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09/20/2010 1:42 AM

Oh well, whatever it takes!

(Forced therapy for acrophobes?)

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09/20/2010 8:28 AM

Oooooh!

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09/20/2010 8:55 AM

Dang! I was cringing just watching this video. Certainly not for me!

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09/20/2010 9:59 AM

As far as I am concerned, 30 years ago, maybe, and I mean a BIG MAYBE.

Today, NO FREAKIN WAY!!!!!!!!!!!

My knees started knocking together 5 seconds into the video clip.

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09/20/2010 10:07 AM

I worked / walked runways of ore bridges and overhead cranes, maybe 150' up.

I've rappelled maybe 80-90 feet.

This video was a bit of a recalibration for me. Most of the time this guy was climbing free (no safety line hooked up).

Enjoy.

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09/20/2010 11:38 PM

Cool video - thanks

Good job for base jumpers

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09/21/2010 1:28 AM

No quick way down, they said! I'd want a parachute before heading up there!

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09/22/2010 1:11 PM

I like the part where he scratches his leg!!!!!

I was yelling at the screen: "NO, DON'T TAKE YOUR FOOT OFF THE LADDER!!!!!"

After all that... THEN the tricky part... WOW!!!!!

I read somewhere that OSHA wanted to use this video to show how NOT to climb....
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09/22/2010 1:17 PM

If you climbed the way OSHA bureaucrats wanted you to, You'd need a couple of days, and you'd have to be genetically modified to have a third hand.

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