Scared of heights anyone??

[Peter Normington]

I could do that. (well mentally) heights dont bother be, its falling that is really scary…
what did they do when they got there?
Peter

[Graham . Shand]

quote Peter Normington:

I could do that. (well mentally) heights dont bother be, its falling that is really scary…
what did they do when they got there?
Peter

I have always had a very healthy respect for working at heights, training in ladder safety, mobile elevated work platforms or scaffold towers is essential. I would urge all who work at heights to seek out proper training. Years ago you were handed a very large ladder and told to get up there, thankfully nowadays safety is part and parcel of good work practice. one definition of a good day at work is being able to go home in one peice.

[Alex Pirozek]

I haven’t got a problem with heights but there’s no way i would be going up there, especially standing on the top!!!…………no way!!
It disorientates me just watching it!

[Robert Lambie]

quote Peter Normington:

what did they do when they got there?

Waved! 🙂

I work high up in cherry pickers pretty often, but still get disorientated at times when i forget myself.

I certainly couldn’t do what those guys just did. i could feel my legs going at times sitting here watching them. i wouldn’t have made it up a quarter of the way up there. hats off to them!
One of my mates is mast climber, thinks nothing of it. has never hurt himself but i remember a huge multi-storey scaffold tower in city centre of Glasgow collapsing and it being all over the news. was a miracle nobody was killed or even injured bar one! my mate, as the tower came down he went to run and pole came straight down and shattered his angle dead…
took about a year to recover but as far i am aware hes back up the masts day to day…

not for me, i get a nose bleed in a high heel! just at the weekends of course. 😉

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[Harry Cleary]

Wot about these eegits though?

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p.s. Rob, anybody, how do you do the embed thing again? I wasn’t paying attention the last time you told us 😳

[Gavin Conway]

I’ve still got cold shivers and its 5 minutes since I watched the clip!!!! wow what a climb.. absolutely MAD MAD MAD

[Robert Lambie]

ive just edited yours harry… if you click edit your post you can see what i did to embed the tube video.

its very easy…

1, highlight your youtube link.

2, once highlighted click the "B" tab above this text box.

3, just change the letter "B" in the extension code for the lowercase word "youtube"

5, this will make your extensions now look like this…
the one at the start… [youtube]
the one at the end [/youtube]

click your preview button to see if it appears, if alls well just click submit.

UKSB has full functionality to have a youtube tab button, but i had the tab/button removed as it was slowing page loads down when doazens of videos were loaded in one thread.

[Harry Cleary]

cheers Rob

[Duncan Wilkie]

Thanks Rob, I’m going to check out the technique…
$this->auto_embed_video(‘http://www.youtube.com/v/gkUJIyOJ_hk?version=3&hl=en_US’, ‘560’, ‘340’)

…. yup it works fine.

[Robert Lambie]

Yep, you have it sussed Duncan. 😀

Harry, he’s cheating, he has a base jumpers parachute on. 😀
regardless, even with a chute, a harness or even bungee cord attached, ide still not even consider it. 😳 :lol1:

[Hugh Potter]

that’s made me feel quite sick!

must be getting old, that’s the second thing in a matter of days which has done that!

[Harry Cleary]

quote Robert Lambie:

Yep, you have it sussed Duncan. 😀

Harry, he’s cheating, he has a base jumpers parachute on. 😀
regardless, even with a chute, a harness or even bungee cord attached, ide still not even consider it. 😳 :lol1:

Aye, hadn’t noticed that Rob, probably more scary to look at than to do. I used to be able to do anything on ladders, but I have completely (and for no particular reason) lost my nerve so I don’t go up anymore.
Tell you what though, these vids have brought huge flash backs for me. My dad had a painting & decorating business and I had forgotten the terror of being sent (at 10, 11 yrs of age) to the top of a 3 section wooden ladder to run the ropes through the ladder pulleys.
It was kind of an initiation right! 😀 I remember once being made to do it in a church and the 3 section was fully extended and resting on the arch over the altar so that when you were going up you had no wall in front of you. I am feeling ill here thinking about that ladder swaying in and out and me holding on for dear life!! Bucket please!
:vomit:

[Robert Lambie]

I hate ladders these days too…

I remember being up ladders inside a large warehouse. fitting sheets of composite to large pyramid trailers.
I was drilling with a power drill, when i remember a BANG, and then looking at the ceiling! i was flat on my back on the concrete floor looking upwards. back of my head aching from the impact.
I was lying on top of the aluminum ladders ladders….
I had even bent one of the wrongs/steps on these large ladders on impact.
I still had the power drill in my hand but the drill bit was snapped and still sticking in the surface i was drilling.

ill never forget how there was NO warning and the sheer speed it happened at.
i had NO chance to brace myself for impact or even jump clear. just BANG and i was out! ive never liked ladders, but from then on i now hate them. i dont even like our guys using them and only do if its something quick and very minor needing done, and certainly not at any real height.

[David Rowland]

I don’t have a fear of heights, I have a fear of footings