Balls of steel incased in 10ft concrete.

[1shortcircuit]

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

 

[Harness69]

wrong in so many ways... x

 

[slimsim60]

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.

 

[grantr37]

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.

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.......

 

[Des 56]

When I read the thread title,I had visions of the local macho stud engaged with the local woman of easy virtue

I have seen the video before and it still haunts :38:

 

[johnboy6083]

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.......

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.

 

[grantr37]

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....

 

[trev]

All I'm going to say is
Felix Baumgartner

 

[Rauer]

All I'm going to say is
Felix Baumgartner

One crazy crazy man but ...... What an achievement , think he also did it for charity!

 

[trev]

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.

 

[Rauer]

I read something somewhere and remember reading the word charity

 

[vjsmarwick]

Only one way you will get me up there and that's in bits in the red toolbag lol