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New Thu 15 Dec 11 00:57 
 this is how things were done pre- H & S! - devonite
Watch the clip the building of Sellafield - sorry no sound!

www.sellafieldsites.com/media-centre/video-library#.Tuk5LMxsOf0.facebook
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New Thu 15 Dec 11 08:27 
 this is how things were done pre- H & S! - Manatee
Being a Sellafield video, I'm surprised they didn't find a narrator who can say nuclear, rather than nucular. Maybe nucular is the correct pronunciation and we should all apologise to George Bush.

I worked on the construction of a viaduct on the M62 in 1972/3. The attitude to safety would make your hair curl. A fellow student had an accident with a tractor, a pole trailer with no brakes, and about 20 tonnes of steel bar. At least two 8 wheel tippers went down embankments sideways as the body went up. Steel erectors wouldn't be hampered by safety lines, working 80-100' off the ground, walking along 10" wide beams with pegs sticking up apout three inches (I always shuffled along them on my bum with my feet on the bottom flange of the I). Every day for about a month I had to climb a 60 foot vertical ladder (wooden ladders tied to scaffolding) and then, at height, climb between scaffolding platforms about 18" apart with nothing in between.

I am still frightened of heights.
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New Thu 15 Dec 11 17:02 
 this is how things were done pre- H & S! - devonite
>>I am still frightened of heights.<<

Me Too!

Used to be a company fire-fighter years ago, and doing a leg-lock at the top of a 45ft ladder whilst controlling a throbbing, pulsating hose branch isn`t funny!
Every time i climb a ladder now i rip all my jacket buttons off!
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New Thu 15 Dec 11 17:10 
 this is how things were done pre- H & S! - Armel Coussine
I freely admit to being an utter wimp about heights.

You would have had to threaten my life in a convincing manner to make me go up that scaffolding or that ladder. As for sitting on an I-beam a hundred feet above a lot of rusty reinforcing bars sticking out of concrete, I'd rather die.
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New Thu 15 Dec 11 17:40 
 this is how things were done pre- H & S! - Pat
Me too:)

Pat
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New Thu 15 Dec 11 17:46 
 this is how things were done pre- H & S! - Runfer D'Hills
An old friend who has a roofing business told me something I've always remembered. I asked him if he was ever afraid of falling. He replied that it never crossed his mind, didn't bother him at all and that he just got on with his jobs. He did though say that hitting the ground wasn't his favourite pastime. He'd tried that a couple of times and it didn't half hurt apparently.
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New Thu 15 Dec 11 18:21 
 this is how things were done pre- H & S! - Pat
That reminds me of a very rough fishing trip around the Eddystone in an open small boat when the weather turned nasty.

I asked the boatman if he could swim.

He replied in his deep Cornish accent 'Can a window cleaner fly?'

I shut up after that:)

Pat
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New Thu 15 Dec 11 19:50 
 this is how things were done pre- H & S! - bathtub tom
I climbed telegraph poles in my teens and have done a solo parachute jump, but stand me on a roof more than a storey high with a metre high barrier and I go all wobbly.
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New Thu 15 Dec 11 19:58 
 this is how things were done pre- H & S! - Zero
>> I climbed telegraph poles in my teens and have done a solo parachute jump, but
>> stand me on a roof more than a storey high with a metre high barrier
>> and I go all wobbly.


Yeah I figured you were a "poles n' holes" man there BT!
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New Thu 15 Dec 11 23:09 
 this is how things were done pre- H & S! - bathtub tom
>>Yeah I figured you were a "poles n' holes" man there BT!

Please, drop the formality, bt'll do.

;>)
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New Thu 15 Dec 11 23:24 
 this is how things were done pre- H & S! - CGNorwich
Anyone for a stroll down this the path when it opens?

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2006613/Chinese-workers-build-1m-wide-wooden-road-vertical-cliff-face.html
Last edited by: CGNorwich on Thu 15 Dec 11 at 23:25
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New Thu 15 Dec 11 23:37 
 this is how things were done pre- H & S! - rtj70
When it opens that will be fine. But, they are taking risks building it.

We are not likely to go to China.
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New Fri 16 Dec 11 14:20 
 this is how things were done pre- H & S! - Dutchie
I have no problems with heights I don't like enclosed spaces.I did firefighthing training and that was scary for me.
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New Fri 16 Dec 11 15:57 
 this is how things were done pre- H & S! - Runfer D'Hills
Here you go all you scaredy-cats. Your dream day out... :-)

travel.aol.co.uk/2011/12/15/is-norways-1-982ft-pulpit-rock-the-worlds-scariest-tourist-attraction/
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New Fri 16 Dec 11 16:20 
 this is how things were done pre- H & S! - Dutchie
No problem Humph just keep away from the edge.I wonder what its like on a windy day.
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New Fri 16 Dec 11 16:36 
 this is how things were done pre- H & S! - rtj70
I've been on a boat that went passed the bottom of Pulpit Rock. There was no opportunity to climb it.
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New Fri 16 Dec 11 16:50 
 this is how things were done pre- H & S! - four wheels good...
El Camino del Rey in Spain is a bit closer to home and certainly scary enough. There was talk of it being refurbished but don't know if this has been done yet. No, I haven't done it, didn't even get as far as the pipe bridge.
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New Fri 16 Dec 11 19:06 
 this is how things were done pre- H & S! - devonite
wonder how many compressors they got through, drilling all them holes for the irons"
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New Fri 16 Dec 11 20:15 
 this is how things were done pre- H & S! - Bagpuss
There is a picture of me on this:

tinyurl.com/lo6r7p

Not afraid of heights at all, but this was a queasy moment, much more so than the rather opaque glass floor they had at the top of the Sears Tower previously. Now want to do the Grand Canyon one.
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New Fri 16 Dec 11 22:29 
 this is how things were done pre- H & S! - Duncan
In 1962/3 my company had the job of fitting the guide rails for the window cleaners cradle on the external face of Portland House.

That was er, interesting.

tinyurl.com/cb5zyj6

Last edited by: VxFan on Sat 17 Dec 11 at 00:11
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