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Changing a light bulb!

BroadScot

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As you say, you get vertigo just looking at the video... :)

 

Back in my GPO apprentice "TTA" days in the 1960's, I attended an overhead cabling course at the training centre at Bletchley Park.

 

Apprentices were taught overhead wiring at the "Pole Farm", a field with a dense grid pattern of fairly short poles, purely for practice.

 

They were similar to this googled photo, but even lower, about 12 feet high.

 

It was great fun as a lad, where we happily swung around on our linesmen's belts, full of confidence.

 

Then, at the end of the course, we were sent up a full size 40ft pole. :shock:

 

Most of us found it impossible to "let go" and lean back against the belt, unlike the little 12 footers....

 

 

 

 

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Thats nothing compared to changing a bulb on a boat, it's a lot nearer the ground but needs much more man/woman power, last time I did it I had:

Judi! telling me the old one wasn't bright enough, I knew that!

Two visitors! telling me to go LED, I knew that!

Two more visitors! advising on what type and power LED, I knew that!

Me! changing it for said LED, I knew how to do that!

Five people watching me do it, I didn't need that!

So there you are six in total to change one light bulb, I never knew that!

I think I would have prefered to be up that mast doing it on my own, I could have done that, after many years of working at heights before H&S I have no fear of heights or falling, it was the hitting the ground that scared me,,,

 

Frank,,,

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