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Interesting and scary video, dragging that tool bag up as well. I wonder what they were going to do / fix as there didn't seem any equipment around them, incredible view though. Definitely not for me.
 
Aye definitely not for me either, i may consider it if the basic elements of safety were included lol.

I just can't get to grips with the fact they're free-climbing!!

Imagine health and safetys reaction if you tried to do that over here haha
 
I've seen that before. I'd be terrified I think. I'm not scared of heights either. I've worked at the top of a power station stack, and it was windy, and the bloody thing was moving quite a bit.
I was doing some testing, but also had to assist a steeple-jack in mounting a panel. The crazy bloke tied himself on, and then lowered himself over the edge and was working on the underside of the platform. I had to pass him bolts.
He then told me he was only on £10 per hour.
 
johnboy6083 said:
The crazy bloke tied himself on, and then lowered himself over the edge and was working on the underside of the platform. I had to pass him bolts.
He then told me he was only on £10 per hour.
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Haha amazing. Did anything ever cross your mind to make you feel like you could realistically get away with murder haha?

£10 an hour though, that's harsh for that.

Im not scared of heights either, the first parts fine when you're incased....but the free climb with literally no supports is what would get me i think.
 
Im not scared of heights either but I was scared watching that, i couldnt look at the screen when he was looking down ha..

Scary stuff, hats off to him...

Just spent 30mins on youtube after watching that becuase I do what i always do and start clicking the 'related' videos down the side, went from that to watching people jump off cliffs to watching a girls shirt come un-done while in the passenger seat of a toyota supra drifting round a corner. I love youtube, hours of fun.
 
Brightspark2 said:
Just spent 30mins on youtube after watching that becuase I do what i always do and start clicking the 'related' videos down the side, went from that to watching people jump off cliffs to watching a girls shirt come un-done while in the passenger seat of a toyota supra drifting round a corner. I love youtube, hours of fun.
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Yes, I did exactly the same and ended up watching a multi-part film about the last german submarine to surrender to the americans. It was found to contain a large quantity of uranium oxide, which was then used in the Manhattan Project.
 
I'd rather poke myself in both eyes with a rusty pitch fork and then have my testicles squeezed in a vice whilst being whacked over the head by a group of teen wannabe gangsta's and their baseball bats!

I've climbed a tower crane before so I know how these structures do not stay still but heights like that and not encased? Nuts!

The part that gets me is where you know the chap is not clipped on and you can see both hands are not making contact with the ladder???

No amount of money would make me take one step towards making that climb. I want to say fairplay to the blokes that do it but I just can't bring myself to do that, they must be bloomin stoooooopid lol

Oh look, storm coming.... quick lightening, get down as quick as you can lmao

Saw a crane operator climbing down his crane in the piddling rain once, surprising how much quicker he started to move when he clocked the lightening lol
 
I wouldn't do that for all the tea in china, or anything else for that matter, as for the crazy russian acrobats in the other vid, well they must be just that"crazy"!!! Especially on some old rusty radio mast like that. There is one on there someplace of some guys standing on the top of the DUGA 3 array near chernobyl, so not only are they free climbing the huge rusty structure but they are doing it in a prohibited military and radioactive area.
 
johnboy6083 said:
I've seen that before. I'd be terrified I think. I'm not scared of heights either. I've worked at the top of a power station stack, and it was windy, and the bloody thing was moving quite a bit. I was doing some testing, but also had to assist a steeple-jack in mounting a panel. The crazy bloke tied himself on, and then lowered himself over the edge and was working on the underside of the platform. I had to pass him bolts. He then told me he was only on £10 per hour.
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And I bet he was Agency and they were charging £150 an hour for his specialist services then claiming all sorts extra for his food and digs etc that he never got to see.......
 
When I read the thread title,I had visions of the local macho stud engaged with the local woman of easy virtue :eek:

I have seen the video before and it still haunts :38:
 
grantr37 said:
And I bet he was Agency and they were charging £150 an hour for his specialist services then claiming all sorts extra for his food and digs etc that he never got to see.......
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he was working for a sub-contactor of NG baileys. We were instaling anti-aircraft lights, normal lighting, and 16A sockets. He was there to bolt down a frame for a new panel. We had to sandwich the kennedy grating between two lengths of strut, and bolt between them.
 
has anybody seen the Russian vid on youtube of the two guys hauling a fishing line up a 550KV pylon? they tie the end onto an old drum of cable, then wind it up until it gets too close, bridges and explodes into a cloud of brown smoke, with the resulting bang heard for about 40 miles.....

go onto youtube and type in 500kv pylon......that should bring it up....
 
I don't think there was any charity involved but there was a good bit of research sponsored by NASA. Tell you what though, if I was that brave I would do it for fun but I know I'm not.
If there was charity involved then even more kudos to him.
 

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