Anyone Like Heights? Scary Video...

Flasheart

The vieo's been taken down
Never got a chance to see it :evil:

Bassjunkieuk

Flasheart wrote:

The vieo's been taken down
Never got a chance to see it :evil:

Boo www.theonelineengineer.org - Can't even seem to find it on their site :-(

coopster_the_1st

Bassjunkieuk wrote:

Flasheart wrote:

The vieo's been taken down
Never got a chance to see it :evil:

Boo www.theonelineengineer.org - Can't even seem to find it on their site :-(

Here is the explanation of why it has been taken down http://www.theonlineengineer.org/TheOLEBLOG/

Fair enough, but it is a shame it was a great video showing what some people have to do to put bread on the table...

I can't imagine what it feels like when it windy up there... :? :shock:

DCowling

Flasheart


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uccjrp5NRYE

try here

rjsterry

Coopster the 1st wrote:

I can't imagine what it feels like when it windy up there... :? :shock:

*When* it's windy? I'd guess at that height, it's always windy, just a question of degree.

cyclopsbiker

I saw the tower climb before it was taken down....well scary!! but I forced myself to watch it, particularly liked the bit where they climb past the spiky bits that attract electricity out of the atmosphere, something about dissipating lightening strikes....jeeez man!!! as an outdoor enthusiast who's done caving, climbing, abseiling (including off the Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield - sponsored event) I am not hugely scared by heights as long as I'm clipped in....that tower climb was gut renching. actually felt physically sick.

as for the evening stroll clip....started to watch it but couldn't. I visited Zion NP in the States and attempted Angels Landing.... no way was I going over that....can't even watch this video clip!!!

Bassjunkieuk

DCowling wrote:

Flasheart


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uccjrp5NRYE

try here

Reading the blog the guy suggests "try watching it full screen to appreciate the height"

WTF! It's bad enough in the small window! I *may* for sh!ts and giggles try and see if I can play it back at my mates house on his 40" telly - I suspect someone may actually blow chunks then :-)

DCowling

They say that Sears tower can sway about 6" in a 20 mph wind, and that's a building with a big base.

What I would like to know is, how did the build this mast, the scaffolders must be so hard that they pee Iron-Bru

Kieran_Burns

lost_in_thought wrote:

Greg66 wrote:

Jaysus. Felt proper queasy watching that.

Those boys *must* have parachutes on, surely.

Please, tell me that they have parachutes on. Please?

Yep, they do. Definitely. 100%.

LALALAAALALALALALALALAAAAACAN'THEARYOU.

I take no pleasure in saying this, but you can clearly see on the climbing partner that there is no parachute in use.

Oh, and I just watched that full screen on my 26" pc monitor and felt dizzy when he 'transitioned to the top'.

That bit is just wrong when viewed full screen. Have a sick bag ready if you choose you watch it on a bigger screen.

Red Rider

When he transitions to the top, someone tell me is holding on... Ya know, when he undoes that karibiner... he's hooked on to the pole somehow right? The climbing partner (wussy) hooks his arm round the post, surely the main guy does too. I just obviously can't see it.. but no one would get that high and not hold on... would they?

DCowling

Try this one
Nowhere near as high but just as ballsy and a whole lot more skill involved

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO-wTO7ice8&feature=fvwk

bails87

Why do they make that tower so difficult to climb! Why not put those ladder peg things all the way up, rather than making him scrabble around on the top for bolts and odd lumps of metal to hold on to? It's almost as if the designers didn't consider that someone might have to climb it! :shock:

KeimanP

bails87 wrote:

It's almost as if the designers didn't consider that someone might have to climb it! :shock:

Strangely I can understand why they wouldn't consider someone would want to climb it!

He should have taken a parachute up.... at least it would be a quicker way to get down rather than have to do all those rungs again.

jimmypippa

KeimanP wrote:

bails87 wrote:

It's almost as if the designers didn't consider that someone might have to climb it! :shock:

Strangely I can understand why they wouldn't consider someone would want to climb it!

He should have taken a parachute up.... at least it would be a quicker way to get down rather than have to do all those rungs again.

Maybe he's scared by the idea of jumping off? :shock:

wizzlebanger

Got to ride home in twenty mins and my legs have turned to jelly. Crap, left my pliers at the bottom! doh!

Flasheart

OM...F00KING Gawd!!! No bl00dy way.

I watched that with my teeth clenched all the way through :shock:

beegee

You could rationalise it by saying that the end result is no different to falling from a 50ft ladder - except that if you fall from this height you get a lot more time to think about it.

rolf_f

DCowling wrote:

Try this one
Nowhere near as high but just as ballsy

Naaah, nowhere near. You could pay me to sit in a passenger seat on that Liebherr but no amount of money would get me up that radio mast without several safety lines......

MadammeMarie

Damn! It was removed!!!!

kurako

This is the site for the guy who posted it originally. There's an explanation of why he took it down, but fear not there's more planned.

http://www.theonlineengineer.org/TheOLEBLOG/

There's a rather impressive still from the vid. It's scary enough!

EKE_38BPM

If he followed all of the safety regs of the vid (and I'm sure there isn't much griping about wearing PPE in that industry), why would the bosses want it taken down?

After seeing that my respect for someone doing that type of job has gone waaaaaaaaay up.

I'm sure someone, somewhere on the internet has a copy. Be patient, I'm sure it will resurface.

Corporate Camper

It's on live leak... just Google "Stairway to Heaven Climbing"

EKE_38BPM

Good work, sir.

merkin

The video has been pulled. I guess it is this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFVjtJaU1Qc

redvee

merkin wrote:

The video has been pulled. I guess it is this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFVjtJaU1Qc

That is the video were chatting about. Now you've seen how the pros do it, what about these fools doing chin-ups at the 1:10 mark?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyY2s940YAY :shock: :shock:

jimmypippa

redvee wrote:

merkin wrote:

The video has been pulled. I guess it is this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFVjtJaU1Qc

That is the video were chatting about. Now you've seen how the pros do it, what about these fools doing chin-ups at the 1:10 mark?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyY2s940YAY :shock: :shock:

They are fools doing chin ups.

Somehow, although it would be more dangerous, it seems less buttock-clenching to me. I think it is the large amounts of nothing around the mast in the first video.

chadders81

Couldn't finish watching that. Every time he tilted his head down I felt really sick and dizzy.

Going to give it another go and try to get past two minutes.

Kieran_Burns

Chadders81 wrote:

Couldn't finish watching that. Every time he tilted his head down I felt really sick and dizzy.

Going to give it another go and try to get past two minutes.

Do full screen.

Lie down and hold on while watching...

chadders81

I have watched it now - clinging on to my mattress in terror.

I hate heights and I hate ladders.