I watched a video yesterday of someone climbing down a high rise on a tether to work on an A/C unit. Even seeing all the steps in protection and redundant safety measures. Nope. Not me.
Then there was one long ago I saw of a guy doing maintenance on a radio tower. Climbed up the interior ladder most of the way, then got on the outside to get to the part he was checking. At one point he had to disconnect and reconnect his safety line because of stuff in the way. NOPE.
Not that video, but I remember another one from a little more than a decade ago where the guy was talking the entire time, explaining the process (and joking at one point about how only the new guys constantly used both safety hooks because it doubled or tripled the time of the work). Then you realize that there was another fella climbing with him when they get up on the little platform.
Could not handle tower climbing. My hands are getting sweaty just looking at this picture.
I watched a video yesterday of someone climbing down a high rise on a tether to work on an A/C unit. Even seeing all the steps in protection and redundant safety measures. Nope. Not me.
Then there was one long ago I saw of a guy doing maintenance on a radio tower. Climbed up the interior ladder most of the way, then got on the outside to get to the part he was checking. At one point he had to disconnect and reconnect his safety line because of stuff in the way. NOPE.
This is why you need to wear two lines.
Two lines ain’t saving you
Urgh the pinned comment on that video. “Feminist : We don’t need Men”
So annoying that cool videos like this are ruined by the rampant sexism on youtube.
Parachute might from that height…
I’ve always said I’m not afraid of heights, but a climb like that might challenge my stance on that I think.
Edit: spelling
Watch this video of Britain’s most famous steeplejack, Fred Dibnah, erecting a scaffold on a 200ft chimney without any kind of safety line, in 1982:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3ma9iYx4rg
And they tell me I’m nuts.
That was a TV tower on the Midwest plains and truly horrifying… The bit about the weather…
I believe This is the video you saw.
Not that video, but I remember another one from a little more than a decade ago where the guy was talking the entire time, explaining the process (and joking at one point about how only the new guys constantly used both safety hooks because it doubled or tripled the time of the work). Then you realize that there was another fella climbing with him when they get up on the little platform.
Maybe. Thank you. Nightmares now unlocked again.
They’re our nightmares now
I thought this would be about the 2022 movie “Fall.” Quite haunting, that one…
Didn’t even realize mine were too until you said something.