Halfmanhalfbike
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- Location
- Edinburgh
Jeezzzuss h Christ
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fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
You are late...........................
Hacienda71
Mancunian in self imposed exile in leafy Cheshire
- Location
- Wilmslow, Cheshire
I went up the Sears Tower earlier this year and stood on the sky deck (glass box on the side of the top floor) Don't think of myself being scared of heights but found myself gripping on to the edge of the main building when I walked out onto it. The guys climbing that mast without being tied on most of the time are nutters 
. They must have a totally different mentality to the man in the street.
. They must have a totally different mentality to the man in the street.
Sh4rkyBloke
Jaffa Cake monster
- Location
- Manchester, UK
I must be one of a few who would love to do that then... absolutely love heights and the adrenaline rush that that sort of thing would give would be fantastic!
I've been on the glass floor at the top of the CN Tower in Toronto, my Wife wouldn't venture onto it... and a few people started moving away when I was in the centre of it jumping up and down... but that may have been more due to them thinking I was just some random nutter who liked to jump in public.
I've been on the glass floor at the top of the CN Tower in Toronto, my Wife wouldn't venture onto it... and a few people started moving away when I was in the centre of it jumping up and down... but that may have been more due to them thinking I was just some random nutter who liked to jump in public.
Dave Davenport
Guru
- Location
- Hampshire
I don't really have a problem with heights, but watching that made my palms sweat!
- Location
- the post-brexit wasteland
i couldn't even watch it all… 
bonk man
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Malvernshire
The ending is missing, they had the wrong spanner. 
ELL
Über Member
- Location
- Outside your window looking in
Blimey all that work just to change a light bulb.
The ending is missing, they had the wrong spanner.
I thought they had the wrong light bulb, it was a bayonet fitting, not a screw in.
At least it gets you out in the fresh air.
DaveP
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Romney Marsh; Kent
twentysix by twentyfive
Clinging on tightly
- Location
- Over the Hill
The ending is missing, they had the wrong spanner.
Sounds like you've had personal experience Bonkers
twentysix by twentyfive
Clinging on tightly
- Location
- Over the Hill
My guts are in a knot.
Nuts to climb without safety ropes IMHO. I expect there is an H&S dictum in the UK. Different in the USA tho
Nuts to climb without safety ropes IMHO. I expect there is an H&S dictum in the UK. Different in the USA tho
iAmiAdam
New Member
Like the video says, if they climb without ropes for that short while it's safer, mainly because they spend less time with only one hand on the bars.
The video is just immense tho. Hats off to the people that do it. Hope they get paid enough.
The video is just immense tho. Hats off to the people that do it. Hope they get paid enough.
Fantastic and thanks for posting that. I loved it and I've forwarded it to many friends.
Why the H&S concerns, though? It makes clear in the video that there is a compromise between stopping to hook on and the "perceived" safety of being hooked on. The engineer had the harness and the hook readily available, he was allowed to use his personal judgement to decide when to use them. The UK version would probably have required 3 H&S managers to climb with them, and 2 more to carry the site safety reports.
Why the H&S concerns, though? It makes clear in the video that there is a compromise between stopping to hook on and the "perceived" safety of being hooked on. The engineer had the harness and the hook readily available, he was allowed to use his personal judgement to decide when to use them. The UK version would probably have required 3 H&S managers to climb with them, and 2 more to carry the site safety reports.
Sheffield_Tiger
Guru
I was about to go to Sainsburys then I clicked the link
Now I have to wait for my legs to un-jellify (and if that isn't a word, it ought to be) before I can even think of pedaling
I'm fine on ladders up to normal heights, like to the top of a 3 storey house roof sort of thing but not that
Now I have to wait for my legs to un-jellify (and if that isn't a word, it ought to be) before I can even think of pedaling
I'm fine on ladders up to normal heights, like to the top of a 3 storey house roof sort of thing but not that
