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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: maddafinga on September 14, 2010, 08:42:25 PM
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Amazing video, but it's enough to make you sick watching it. I don't care for heights like that. Planes, no problem at all, this sort of thing, absolutely no way. Anyway, check it out...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txdv_oNq81I&feature=player_embedded#!
For the full effect, watch it in full screen!
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OMG heck no lol :O
-BigBOBCH
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At 1:15 I felt like i was gonna puke, so i turned it off.
Respect.
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My gawd I've parachuted outta planes at half that height. Those guys are nuts! I wonder what their insurance rates are. :lol
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It's more the fish-eye camera they use that makes me nauseous than the image of the height.
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i lold at the first comment of the video
The bag weighs about 30lbs, but that dude's balls weigh about 100lbs each
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It's not so bad once you know you'll be fine as long as you don't make a mistake; but then you think, what if the tower you're climbing makes a mistake?
:bolt:
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This must be the tower that kills approximately 10,000 migratory birds every year.
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I would be ok up to the bit where his partner held the bag. I just know I would get the heebie jeebies switching from ladder to that thin pole with rungs. I would probably honestly like to give that a go, see how high I could get up before I wussed out, but only if they gave me a base rig incase I fell.
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I would be ok up to the bit where his partner held the bag. I just know I would get the heebie jeebies switching from ladder to that thin pole with rungs. I would probably honestly like to give that a go, see how high I could get up before I wussed out, but only if they gave me a base rig incase I fell.
I freaked out when I went to the top of the space needle in seattle, you couldnt pay me to get on that thing.
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Oh man I love heights, I'm scared of stupid things like being responsible or paying taxes.
edit: I know that sounds really BS dumb of me to say that. I am amazed at the balls those two climbers have and I am no way trying to claim I could do it. But I would like to try. Obviously I have not actualy climbed that tower or anywhere near that height but I have been in situations climbing on similar structures at 50ft or more many times. Not to mention much high than that in trees as a child. Rock climbing is a good example of blocking the fear of heights. Above the fatal fall point it's all the same risk.
Your space needle experience was different. You were trusting the engineers skill who built it and not risking your life with your own skills. Such as riding on the back of someone's highspeed motorbike, it's no fun when you're not in control, it's just scary. You know you can fly a plane, so at the controls you feel at ease. Those guys know they can climb those ladders. No doubt eliminates the 'fear' of heights.
It's totaly mind over matter, climbing at anything over around 50ft is going to kill you or seriously cripple you if you fall. It makes no difference how high you go above the fatal fall marker. Obviously the fear will be many times greater from the placebo effect that falling from 1500ft will be worse for you than falling from 50ft. But really that is not the case, obviously. Some people have fallen of a chair and broken their spine where as others have fallen from 30k and survived. Above a fatal falling height it's all pot luck.
Imagine a tight rope 50ft in the air over concrete between two poles. It would be certainly very serious if we fell and so the fear would stop us attempting it. If the same rope was over water, we would probably all give it a go as falling would be unlikely to injure us.
It even effects our motor skills. Nature is telling us to stop climbing because it thinks we are going to die. It's a survival instinct. Sadly if we are mid-climb nature didn't think about the fact that stopping us from climbing upwards any further also prevent us from climbing back down. We lock ourselves to the object we are climbing and refuse to move an inch. That is the fear that has to be overcome before attempting anything as crazy as that video. With no danger invovled we could easily navigate the thin ladders, with fatal danger the fear will make even a set of stairs with a handrail seem like a death trap.
batfink's guide to not being afraid of height Vol 1 :D
summary: above 50ft youre screwed anyway so enjoy the extra exhileration the higher you are.
That video was unbelievably awesome, thanks for posting madda.
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Holy christ... My stomach was in knots watching that!
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Man transferring around from one ladder to the other would do me in. I think if I really had to I could do it but I would be freaked out. Going up wouldn't be so bad I think but coming down would be the worst.
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there is no flippin way :O......i wouldn't do that at gunpoint! put my stomach in knots watching it, even had to look away a few times lol. thanks madda, it's been years since i had the falling dream! now i'm scared to go to bed :furious
good post :aok :salute
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Did he say only 1700ft?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVLY-TV_mast
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Wonder how long it takes to get to the top? And how long it take to get to the bottom? And i wonder what they have to do if they have to go to the bathroom?
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Did he say only 1700ft?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVLY-TV_mast
Yep, that is the killer of a lot of migratory birds. GRRRRR!
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Wonder how long it takes to get to the top? And how long it take to get to the bottom? And i wonder what they have to do if they have to go to the bathroom?
Just dont pee into the wind, for #2 i believe your SOL
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Didn't get sick of my stomach watching that... But I probably would've if I were him I could go up on a ladder but not switching ladders that high...
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"its just there for extra height"
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At 1:15 I felt like i was gonna puke, so i turned it off.
Respect.
I got sick at 1:56, had to turn that off too.
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In my younger years I used to enjoy climbing water towers, radio masts, anyplace that lets me get way up there. Then I turned 50, now a 6' step ladder will make my head spin. I still love the views you get from up high, but I wish more tall towers had good web cams on top! Cause I can't climb em anymore.
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WOW! I now have that twingy feeling in my fingers and toes! Glad to see someone could do that job, I never could! :eek:
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I wouldn't go up that SOB if I was Spiderman. :eek:
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I'm feeling a little nauseous just reading about this...
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Makes me glad I have a desk job. :O
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ya I got sweaty palms and nausea just watching that and they didn't even mention how much those suckers twist and sway (it's designed to allow for it). The whole time I was going 'tie off TIE OFF'. I had a buddy in my telco days that was a tower monkey (slang for climbers) that could tell stories that would make you puke and yes he was psycho enough to make me seem normal.
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wow, if someone said they would give me a billion dollars I still dont think I could find it in myself to make it to the top like that...... at least sober.... :D
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Very cool.
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Man transferring around from one ladder to the other would do me in. I think if I really had to I could do it but I would be freaked out. Going up wouldn't be so bad I think but coming down would be the worst.
Nailed it. These would be the two things that would stop me from attempting this climb. Otherwise, I actually would like to make an attempt on a calm day.
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Anyone else notice that they didn't keep a good eye out for those NOE hoards? Not very good backup to radar down if you ask me. :D
I think with the proper training I would have a blast doing that. I'm like ghost use to be, if its tall I want to climb it.
*edited for spelling*
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When I was about 12-13, me and a few crazy friends used to climb the WYRE AM radio transmitter tower in Annapolis, Md. Only reason? To climb to top, unscrew globe, and drop lightbulb some 250 feet I would guess,lol.
No harness, no kind of safety stuff, and most of the times we did it at night.
Other stuff we did at that age. Anyone who's ever been to Annapolis would know the Eastport bridge (draw span) that spans Spa Creek. We used to jump off the top rail of that thing when the bridge was up for boat traffic.
You should have seen the looks on peoples faces as we climbed from under the raised part of the bridge to the road surface,lol. And then to climb the rail, raise hands in air and jump. We even had a swing set up under the bridge to do jumps from.
We had no fear, were young and stupid,lol. But we had fun.
Never had much of a fear of heights, but I don't tempt fate anymore either.
<S> Oz
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In my younger years I used to enjoy climbing water towers, radio masts, anyplace that lets me get way up there. Then I turned 50, now a 6' step ladder will make my head spin. I still love the views you get from up high, but I wish more tall towers had good web cams on top! Cause I can't climb em anymore.
When I was a kid I climbed one of these...
(http://www.turbophoto.com/Free-Stock-Images/Images/Radio%20Tower.jpg)
Not anywhere near the size of the one in the video but pretty durn high up in its own right.
On ski lifts I was the idiot rocking the seat scaring the guy sitting with me.
We had a hotel that was closed that we used to break into and hang out on its roof. We would sit on the edge of the roof 10 stories up and drink beer.
NOW I am like you Ghosth. The older I get, the less I like heights. Anything over @ 2-3 stories freaks me out.
This video flat freaked me out.
You could offer me any amount of $ and I would not make that climb.
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I'd love to say I could do that, but no frikkin way - just watching the video was enough. Thanks for posting that.
Wurzel
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On ski lifts I was the idiot rocking the seat scaring the guy sitting with me.
I would have been the guy next to you being scared to death :lol
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age 16 i liked heights too :D
(http://www.freeroleentertainment.com/cliffs8.jpg)
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I want to know how they (or are supposed to) get down. You can pay me a pretty penny to spend a couple hours on the clock to climb one of those, but da!@ed if I'm taking all those steps and ladders, with tools, all the way back down. On belae!
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Yeah the way down would be much worse to me. Almost gives me the willies just to think about it.
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Base jumping would be a much faster way. :)
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What video are you guys talking about...it's been removed from youtube.
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Base jumping would be a much faster way. :)
my thoughts exactly.. if you're not going to tie off at least have a parachute...
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to many suspension lines on one of them to have a parachute IMO
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Great, the vid was taken down. :cry
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What video are you guys talking about...it's been removed from youtube.
helmet cam of a guy climbing a 1600 + ft guyed tower I think to replace the beacon. Pretty nerve wracking vid.
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Great, the vid was taken down. :cry
duno if you guys mean this vid "SWTH - Climbing a 1768 ft radio tower! "
removed -> its still up on youtube
I removed the link, after I read this:
[...] The footage of the climb came from a friend of mine that does this type of work, I have know him for several years and he has helped me many times in the past. Recently he gave me this video he shot on one of his jobs. I showed him the edited video and he approved it and I put it up on TheOnLineEngineer.Org and You Tube over the weekend. On Monday he was getting calls from colleagues telling him that they were concerned about what the video showed. His world is a very small one, and you don’t want to bite the hand that feeds you! Some facility owners are pretty uptight about liability and such and may not hire him if they think he does not take safety seriously.
So he asked me to take it down, and I did. That was Monday morning (Sep 13, 2010). Today (Sep 15) he told me it was up on You Tube, by the time I looked at it it had over 77,000 views. It was on more than a dozen websites. The chance that someone important would see it was increasing rapidly. So the video most of you saw was one that had been ripped off from my website before I took it down. I wrote asking the guy who put it up to take it down but got no response so I contacted You Tube.[..]
Full text here: http://www.theonlineengineer.org/TheOLEBLOG/
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When I was a kid I climbed one of these...
(http://www.turbophoto.com/Free-Stock-Images/Images/Radio%20Tower.jpg)
Not anywhere near the size of the one in the video but pretty durn high up in its own right.
On ski lifts I was the idiot rocking the seat scaring the guy sitting with me.
We had a hotel that was closed that we used to break into and hang out on its roof. We would sit on the edge of the roof 10 stories up and drink beer.
NOW I am like you Ghosth. The older I get, the less I like heights. Anything over @ 2-3 stories freaks me out.
This video flat freaked me out.
You could offer me any amount of $ and I would not make that climb.
That explains everything about you. Crazy, daring and confident.