BroadScot Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 I have worked up high, but NEVER this high! https://www.youtube.com/embed/f1BgzIZRfT8?feature=player_embedded Iain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranworthbreeze Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 Hi Iain, My knees went weak just at the thought of it. Regards Alan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadScot Posted February 26, 2015 Author Share Posted February 26, 2015 Hi Iain, My knees went weak just at the thought of it. Regards Alan Aye Alan, but, what views! Iain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 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. Most of us found it impossible to "let go" and lean back against the belt, unlike the little 12 footers.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadScot Posted February 26, 2015 Author Share Posted February 26, 2015 Ah thanks for that Strowy.....you could say the heights were errr "poles" apart! Aye ok, i'll get my coat! Iain 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExSurveyor Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 It is no problem until you get to the top and drop the lamp or find you have the wrong tool. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donnygeoff Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 how about ...... one night from the pub..... decided to do this....... had to wear a balaclava, so no one would recognise me and my lad...sight seeing... please do not try this at home..... no safety equipment needed... PS. i am the one filming with the head cam..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUD-Au5O-30 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JawsOrca Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 Sod that! I feel sick... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranworthbreeze Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 Hi Alan, Not sick but now feeling light headed and no feeling other than the knees, vertigo is a bitch! (female dog)! Never liked heights but it used to be part of the job. Regards Alan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MauriceMynah Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 Why? Question was addressed to the guy's climbing, not to you Gracie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mowjo Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 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,,, 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadScot Posted February 27, 2015 Author Share Posted February 27, 2015 Your posts removed as requested Gracie Iain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gracie Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 Thank you Grace Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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