OT: The person with the biggest cojones in all of London

FoldingJoe
FoldingJoe Posts: 1,327
edited May 2012 in Commuting chat
...must go to the person who operates the crane that is currently strapped to the side of The Shard, some 300 metres in the air!! :shock: :shock:

Saw it this morning from the train and even just looking at it made me feel uneasy... :)
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  • TheStone
    TheStone Posts: 2,291
    Agreed.

    A bloke in a pub I worked in used to drink all day long. I presumed he was retired, but turned out he worked nights on the cranes. Couldn't go near it sober.
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  • richVSrich
    richVSrich Posts: 527
    they get paid alot alot - fair play!
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  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    M'eh! He'll have health and saftey blah blah. He's a big wet girls blouse compared to these gents......

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  • bigmat
    bigmat Posts: 5,134
    Rolf F wrote:
    M'eh! He'll have health and saftey blah blah. He's a big wet girls blouse compared to these gents......

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    I imagine they still do that in Dubai...
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  • FoldingJoe
    FoldingJoe Posts: 1,327
    Rolf F wrote:
    M'eh! He'll have health and saftey blah blah. He's a big wet girls blouse compared to these gents......

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    Can just hear the site foreman - "Hey, you on the end, put out that cigarette. Don't you know that contravenes Health and Safety regs?" :D
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  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,895
    I feel dizzy just looking at that picture. Not a job for me then.
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  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    FoldingJoe wrote:
    Can just hear the site foreman - "Hey, you on the end, put out that cigarette. Don't you know that contravenes Health and Safety regs?" :D

    What's worse is that none of them are wearing hard hats!
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  • prawny
    prawny Posts: 5,443
    Aren't those old New York or wherever pictures just clever cropping, I'm sure I read or saw once that there wasn't really much of a drop, it was just clever photography. Cant remember where I might have read that now though.
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  • richVSrich
    richVSrich Posts: 527
    yeah, thats true - they have a floor a couple of feet below the picture

    still gives me the shivers looking at it tho...
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,660
    prawny wrote:
    Aren't those old New York or wherever pictures just clever cropping, I'm sure I read or saw once that there wasn't really much of a drop, it was just clever photography. Cant remember where I might have read that now though.

    The difference between 2 stories and 100 is pretty small - if you fall, there's going to be a problem.
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  • davis
    davis Posts: 2,506
    Rolf F wrote:
    FoldingJoe wrote:
    Can just hear the site foreman - "Hey, you on the end, put out that cigarette. Don't you know that contravenes Health and Safety regs?" :D

    What's worse is that none of them are wearing hard hats!

    They'll be needing high-vis and steel toecaps too! Got to keep the guys safe when they're 100s of metres up in the air!
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  • TheStone
    TheStone Posts: 2,291
    prawny wrote:
    Aren't those old New York or wherever pictures just clever cropping, I'm sure I read or saw once that there wasn't really much of a drop, it was just clever photography. Cant remember where I might have read that now though.

    Yep, but some of them still fell all the way down.

    They used to work in teams and if one didn't turn up, none of them were allow to work. At one stage they added a floor a day to the Empire State.
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  • MaxwellBygraves
    MaxwellBygraves Posts: 1,353
    Just looking at that photo makes me feel really queasy!!
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  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,895
    Did I read somewhere that they used to use a particular tribe of American Indians because they are wired up wrong and just don't have a fear of heights in them? Probably an urban myth I heard at some point. None of the blokes in the picture look particularly native.
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  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    Don't know about the specific photos but I think the pic does represent the working conditions. You might fall a couple of storeys to a floor but that only works if you fall inwards!

    They were racing to build those things - I can't see them worrying about the danger to the workers rather than the deadlines!
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  • phy2sll2
    phy2sll2 Posts: 680
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Did I read somewhere that they used to use a particular tribe of American Indians because they are wired up wrong and just don't have a fear of heights in them? Probably an urban myth I heard at some point. None of the blokes in the picture look particularly native.

    Fourth from the left is, according to Wikipedia.
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  • clarkey cat
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    Guy on the right:

    "If I have cheese and pickle one more effing time...."
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  • lostboysaint
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    http://www.placehacking.co.uk/tag/trespass/ Well worth a read.
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    Yeah, yeah, yeah.

    Can't believe no one has posted the scariest damn video you'll ever watch:

    http://youtu.be/C_-7Qp7uzbQ

    full screen is sphincter clenching....
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  • clarkey cat
    clarkey cat Posts: 3,641
    thats what my old man does for a living. nothing that high though. frightening.
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  • mrc1
    mrc1 Posts: 852
    Kieran_Burns wrote:
    Yeah, yeah, yeah.

    Can't believe no one has posted the scariest damn video you'll ever watch:

    http://youtu.be/C_-7Qp7uzbQ

    full screen is sphincter clenching....

    Damn you - I was planning to post this as I read through the thread.

    Going up is one thing but I don't know he has the nerve to go back down as you can't see where to place your feet!
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  • clarkey cat
    clarkey cat Posts: 3,641
    just base-jump off, surely?

    thats what my Dad does (or so he says...)
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  • FoldingJoe
    FoldingJoe Posts: 1,327
    clarkey cat wrote:
    just base-jump off, surely?

    thats what my Dad does (or so he says...)

    Give him a Go Pro... that I'd love to see!! :)
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  • clarkey cat
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    he's probably lying. He also used to fly a Red Arrow and saved Tarzan from crocodiles, allegedly.
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  • MaxwellBygraves
    MaxwellBygraves Posts: 1,353
    Kieran_Burns wrote:
    Yeah, yeah, yeah.

    Can't believe no one has posted the scariest damn video you'll ever watch:

    http://youtu.be/C_-7Qp7uzbQ

    full screen is sphincter clenching....

    Argh that's truly awful had to stop watching, felt ill!
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    mrc1 wrote:
    Kieran_Burns wrote:
    Yeah, yeah, yeah.

    Can't believe no one has posted the scariest damn video you'll ever watch:

    http://youtu.be/C_-7Qp7uzbQ

    full screen is sphincter clenching....

    Damn you - I was planning to post this as I read through the thread.

    Going up is one thing but I don't know he has the nerve to go back down as you can't see where to place your feet!

    Same for me - I was fine going up multi-floor ladders. Like a rat up a drain pipe, coming back down... when you look down and see this narrow little aluminium pipe disappearing into the distance. Not good.

    Especially as I had a few occasions when me and ladder parted company...
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  • Vitessetortoise
    Vitessetortoise Posts: 53
    Kieran_Burns wrote:
    Yeah, yeah, yeah.

    Can't believe no one has posted the scariest damn video you'll ever watch:

    http://youtu.be/C_-7Qp7uzbQ

    full screen is sphincter clenching....

    I got to 1.23 and had to stop it. Feel sick. Though, to be fair, I get vertigo on the Thelwell Viaduct :oops:
  • Applespider
    Applespider Posts: 506
    MaxwellBygraves wrote:
    Kieran_Burns wrote:
    Yeah, yeah, yeah.

    Can't believe no one has posted the scariest damn video you'll ever watch:

    http://youtu.be/C_-7Qp7uzbQ

    full screen is sphincter clenching....

    Argh that's truly awful had to stop watching, felt ill!

    I didn't think I suffered from vertigo until I watched that... am so so glad that it's not in high definition. At least the blurriness full screen made it feel less intense! I think I'd just about cope with going up... I think I'd need to base jump down since I'm not sure I could make my way over some of those edges otherwise.
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,895
    I got to nearly two minutes. But, I cheated. I kept looking away and peering back. Like watching Dr Who from behind the sofa as a kid.
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