Jenni86 Posted September 16, 2010 Posted September 16, 2010 That made me feel sick. I'm scared of heights, although I did do a skydive last year from 14,000ft. Quote
captain Posted September 16, 2010 Posted September 16, 2010 Makes me larf.... Why do they need a "hard Hat" on????????????????????? Get a friend to drop a wrench on your head from a first floor window and post back the results. Quote
geoff-r Posted September 16, 2010 Author Posted September 16, 2010 "Er...Bob" "Yer...?" "You're gonna kill me mate but I've left me spanner in the car. We're gonna have to go back down to get it" That's a Carlsberg ad right there haha. Quote
DoogyRev Posted September 16, 2010 Posted September 16, 2010 Makes me larf.... Why do they need a "hard Hat" on????????????????????? Get a friend to drop a wrench on your head from a first floor window and post back the results. Quote
Zugara Posted September 16, 2010 Posted September 16, 2010 Makes me larf.... Why do they need a "hard Hat" on????????????????????? Get a friend to drop a wrench on your head from a first floor window and post back the results. ERM... the tool bag is below the top climber....and from what i saw the top climber had no tools in his hand.... So they are both at the top of the tower.....who's dropping stuff from the first floor window on them then? Quote
captain Posted September 16, 2010 Posted September 16, 2010 Makes me larf.... Why do they need a "hard Hat" on????????????????????? Get a friend to drop a wrench on your head from a first floor window and post back the results. ERM... the tool bag is below the top climber....and from what i saw the top climber had no tools in his hand.... So they are both at the top of the tower.....who's dropping stuff from the first floor window on them then? The top climber is above the bottom climber for quite a distance. He might drop something. His fix-line carabina hook looks pretty meaty to drop on someone's head. Also, if you are climbing and hit your head on a rung/rail going up, you can cause yourself to lose balance. It wasn't meant to be a scientific analysis, but it is the reason they wear hard-hats. Quote
Zugara Posted September 16, 2010 Posted September 16, 2010 It was actually posted in "jest".. Move on...... Quote
glrnet Posted September 16, 2010 Posted September 16, 2010 What a complete "girl"..... he had gloves on That is unreal Quote
mattbowey Posted September 16, 2010 Posted September 16, 2010 i'm not at all scared of heights so it wouldnt be the going up that would bother me. the climbing back down would be horrible though. i always used to prefer to jump from a tree when i was younger. unless of course they jump off with a chute Quote
Willy P Posted September 17, 2010 Posted September 17, 2010 Oh man, it won't let me watch it, something to do with copyright. I went to youtube and tried there also but wasn't allowed. Quote
busa1300 Posted September 17, 2010 Posted September 17, 2010 Same here video has been removed due to copyright, iam not too keen on heights but i have to walk round this every month. Kev Quote
Husky Posted September 17, 2010 Posted September 17, 2010 awesome see that kind of height wouldnt bother me. but the insane height is different. its the exposure! Quote
Beavis Posted September 17, 2010 Posted September 17, 2010 The reason for the video been removed from youtube. About the Missing Video (Stairway to Heaven) Posted in Safety, TheOLE.Org, Tower on September 15th, 2010 by Russell Brown – 74 Comments First off I want to thank everyone for the great response I got on the video “Stairway to Heavenâ€, it was really much more than I could have hoped for. Now, having said that I am also very sorry that I could not keep the video up for you to share with your friends and family. I truly am sorry, I can see from the comments how popular it was and that’s why I want to explain what happened. 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. Once again I am sorry about pulling the video, I know that every time I looked at it my legs got weak, there’s no way I could do that type of work. AND THATS MY POINT – I need this guy who made the video, we plan to do more of them, but it won’t happen if he can’t get work because he’s been black listed by the industry. He’s also my friend and I don’t want to see him get hurt because of some video I put up on the internet. We have had two offers to broadcast this video, a request to submit it to a film festival in France, over 118,000 views on You Tube. This was all much more than we had ever planned for or thought would happen. AS SOON AS WE CAN WE WILL HAVE MORE VIDEOS ABOUT TOWER CLIMBING, in the mean time please be patient. And once again thank you for all the comments. Russ Quote
Wasso Posted September 17, 2010 Posted September 17, 2010 Busa - try this one.... It's the tallest roller coaster in the world at 420ft (My passion in life is to get on this coaters before I kick the bucket) Quote
busa1300 Posted September 17, 2010 Posted September 17, 2010 Busa - try this one.... It's the tallest roller coaster in the world at 420ft (My passion in life is to get on this coaters before I kick the bucket) i might be! the company is thinking of a "dragster" type ride. Kev Quote
busa1300 Posted September 17, 2010 Posted September 17, 2010 This is it getting stuck at the top! Kev Quote
Husky Posted September 17, 2010 Posted September 17, 2010 thats a pretty awesome place to get stuck though! Quote
BulletMagnet Posted September 17, 2010 Posted September 17, 2010 I'm suprised that nobody has asked this yet, but what happens if the night before climbing the tower you had a curry? How much of a crater would an average sized human poo make after falling such a height? I need answers to those questions dammit Quote
geoff-r Posted September 17, 2010 Author Posted September 17, 2010 I'm suprised that nobody has asked this yet, but what happens if the night before climbing the tower you had a curry?How much of a crater would an average sized human poo make after falling such a height? I need answers to those questions dammit Haha my friday has been made! Shame they took the video down though. Quote
Willy P Posted September 17, 2010 Posted September 17, 2010 I'm suprised that nobody has asked this yet, but what happens if the night before climbing the tower you had a curry?How much of a crater would an average sized human poo make after falling such a height? I need answers to those questions dammit I'm afraid I have just given this quite a lot of thought. Although I am unable to calculate the terminal velocity of a poo I doubt it would be much more than 100 mph, but then again, at that height it might be quicker due to lower pressure at height and would therefore slow down as it reaches the earth. This leads to other questions like "how aerodynamic is the poo?", "what percentage is the water content and therefore what is the consequent mass of the turd?". Either way, it would make a splat, and would possibly hurt depending on consistency. Have I thought about this too much? Quote
Tarmac@TarmacSportz Posted September 17, 2010 Posted September 17, 2010 I'm suprised that nobody has asked this yet, but what happens if the night before climbing the tower you had a curry?How much of a crater would an average sized human poo make after falling such a height? I need answers to those questions dammit I'm afraid I have just given this quite a lot of thought. Although I am unable to calculate the terminal velocity of a poo I doubt it would be much more than 100 mph, but then again, at that height it might be quicker due to lower pressure at height and would therefore slow down as it reaches the earth. This leads to other questions like "how aerodynamic is the poo?", "what percentage is the water content and therefore what is the consequent mass of the turd?". Either way, it would make a splat, and would possibly hurt depending on consistency. Have I thought about this too much? If he has had a curry I doubt the consistency will be firm Quote
Beavis Posted September 17, 2010 Posted September 17, 2010 Shame they took the video down though. Found it here http://www.rbr.com/radio/ENGINEERING/94/27557.html Quote
busa1300 Posted September 17, 2010 Posted September 17, 2010 Jesus! i dont know how they do it without being hooked on if i ever have to unclip to reposition myself its just for a split second! Kev Quote
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