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DrPizza

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Awesome. I had forgotten about the alternate link by the time I read through 20 or so posts. Downloaded it too, so I can share about 30 seconds of the video in class: the part about dissipating charge to prevent lightning strikes.
 

Wag

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However much they get paid it's not enough.

BTW: It's the fisheye lens that gives intensifies that feeling of vertigo. Had they used a normal lens it wouldn't be that bad.
 

Ns1

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just watched the video.
As he was climbing up, inside the framework, i thought "so what, i could do that."

one he climbed outside the framework and continued to climb, my sphincter clinched up.

When he go to the small section where he had to go hand over hand, i felt light headed.

When he climbed out onto the light, i shit my pants and fainted.

lol
 

trmiv

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Awhile back there was another video of some guy hanging from beams or a bridge or something very high up that made my asshole pucker too. He wasn't working, just screwing around, but it was with no safety harness. I can't find them or any mentions of them though.

edit: here we go. They start doing the really dumb stuff a little after the 1 min mark

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxjDWWpYfNI&feature=related
 
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OUCaptain

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just saw the vid. why not just take a helicopter up there and get the work done? seems fake.

Well yeah, because you know... swinging a man from a heli 1600 feet up and trying to land him on a tower is way safer.:rolleyes:

I'll attribute your "seems fake" comment to your obvious love of /b/tardness
 
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BoomerD

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heh...fuck you...and fuck those tower cranes...:p

I've been in ONE in my life...185 feet of ladder from the ground to the cab...on a cold winter's day in Spokane at a hospital...that was 30 years ago.
Temps in the low 30's, light wind...light snow. That ladder would have been bad enough on a warm summer day...it was slippery as hell that morning.
Those tower cranes aren't particularly stable...they dip and bob...just like a boat on the ocean.
I was glad to get that shift out of the way...(it was a mandatory training session)
 

olds

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heh...fuck you...and fuck those tower cranes...:p

I've been in ONE in my life...185 feet of ladder from the ground to the cab...on a cold winter's day in Spokane at a hospital...that was 30 years ago.
Temps in the low 30's, light wind...light snow. That ladder would have been bad enough on a warm summer day...it was slippery as hell that morning.
Those tower cranes aren't particularly stable...they dip and bob...just like a boat on the ocean.
I was glad to get that shift out of the way...(it was a mandatory training session)

I took that pic yesterday in downtown Sac. Saw the cranes and thought of you.
 

TehMac

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OP: JERK! Sounds like I missed an awesome video. I was going to click on it at work, but with a thread title mentioning testicles... I figured it was something cool, but was afraid of NSFW.

:(

OP apparently has been updated. Someone posted a new youtube embed in the comments of the OP link.
 

Zebo

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Damn that's scary. I just watched again trying to overcome. How far y'all reckon that tower sways back and forth when wind is up? Fuck that! 100K? pfft you could pay me 100K per climb and I rather flip burgers for $10 an hour.
 

OCGuy

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Video has been removed, anyone got another link?

I really wonder why some of us are hard-wired to be so afraid of heights, and the rest aren't. It is 100% nature, not nurture, I can tell you that.
 

eits

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by the way, the video in the op made my sympathetic nervous system go into overdrive... sweaty feet and palms, heart racing, and nauseous. thanks, op.

i was like, "yeah, fuck that job" the entire time i watched this video... no damn way.
 

eits

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Just watched the video.
As he was climbing up, inside the framework, I thought "so what, I could do that."

Once he climbed outside the framework and continued to climb, my sphincter clinched up.

When he go to the small section where he had to go hand over hand, I felt light headed.

When he climbed out onto the light, I shit my pants and fainted.

this post made me lol. i hope i didn't wake my gf up.
 

eits

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a couple thought i had while watching the video (other than "fuck that"):
- how much do these people get paid?
- how is deep sea fishing deadlier than this?
- why don't they wearing parachutes just in case?
- there's gotta be a safer way to do this job...
 

Zebo

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Video has been removed, anyone got another link?

I really wonder why some of us are hard-wired to be so afraid of heights, and the rest aren't. It is 100% nature, not nurture, I can tell you that.

It is weird. I have no problem jumping off cliffs and 10m dive board into water. No problem being in the roof of my house cause I can jump and survive 20ft. It's extreme heights over about 40ft over earth/concrete that scare the crap out of me. Basically because you're dead if you make any mistake and brain knows it me thinks.