Until I watched this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txdv_oNq81I&feature=player_embedded#

holly crap! makes me ill just watching it

you're only 2mins in. It gets worse.

yep it does!!! 😯 😯

free climbing on that post 😯

and he is still going… i can't watch anymore

I feel sick.

Whatever they get paid, it's not enough..

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

I got sweaty palms and jelly legs watching that earlier.

shite is gets worse still – at the top on the beacon… two of them…

going to lie down down

jesus. hats off to them lads

Wonder what the mortality rate is in that particular profession!? 😯

Not for all the money in the world!

i used to do that before i joined the fire brigade and i dont miss it after watching that lol money was good tho.

it wasnt the getting up towers for me that was a problem but the getting back down that was more of a pain

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

mummy i'm scared……!

Lmao at the commentary about the weather clouds.
"If bad weather hits theres no quick way down"…. eh I think there is mate!!

Would love to do a job like that, talk about freedom.

Can you imagine what the winds like up there!!

It's the moment he's standing on top and lets go with both hands to attach the clip that gets me 😯

urrr god.

I've gone all funny inside

Can you imagine what the winds like up there!!

Yeah. I'd be farting a bit too!

Presumably the hemet keeps your head clean when the guy up ahead pisses his pants, or worse.

I wonder how much the tower sways at the top.

Ive climbed all the 1000ft ones over here…

Its not actually that bad.

They do sway around abit..

This is me, about half that height, fixing the AWL…

yep letting go to stand up and clip on at the top is definitely the "had to look away" moment!

I bet the bloody thing wobbles like hell too.

That's my idea of hell.

I would be up there and my hand would slip on a rung or something, and I'd get that massive rush of adrenaline, then I would just hug the pole and not move until they lowered the pole with me attached to it to the ground.

I wonder what his nightmares are about.

I wasn't keen on the bit where he fumbled for his handhold at 4:15

Hahah! Was thinking yeah wow he's in a cage so what. Oh wait!

That's some height for sure, don't they use a native American of a certain tribe for jobs like this who naturally have no fear of height?

Hmm that could be one of those myths though.

7:03 made my stomach go funny

they must have balls of steel

Jesus H Wibbling Christ!! 😯 😯

He is so bloody NONCHALANT! Does he even have a pulse? How can you not be freaked out by that?

I suffer from vertigo…I feel sick.

Cecil knows all:
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/659/why-do-so-many-native-americans-work-on-skyscrapers

That bit at the top!! 😯

I presume when he is clipping on to the top he is attached to the chap below??

So what is a guided tower as when i google it comes up with tours for the tower of london.

😯 😯 😯 Sweaty palms watching that!

Do you think he has a G-shock watch so it won't break if he falls off?

I can't watch the video at work but I'm getting the impression that it makes me like a bit of a wuss pooing myself on the roof fixing ridge tiles at the weekend.

I wonder how you get in to this kind of work? Any ideas anyone? Teeto?

Mental 😀

Kinell!!
I'm sat on my office chair feeling rather dizzy…
not for all the bike bling in the world could I do that – I felt odd enough when standing in the Space Deck on the CN tower….

What kind of sick designer makes the ladders harder to climb the higher you get?

If i were to get into that type of work – i think i would get into Base jumping, Going up would be the easy bit. When you are done, just turn around, unclip and you can be having your sandwiches which you left in the van in 30 odd seconds!

marionheck thats what i started thinking, i was looking at the options of where i could get away with doing it on sites. probably a good job i moved jobs lol

i got stuck up one in scotland for what seemed like ages i was in a tshirt and out of nowhere a big hailstone storm started so i just clipped on and tried to shelter behind the dish id just put up til it calmed down. all good fun

Andituk – Member
It's the moment he's standing on top and lets go with both hands to attach the clip that gets me

This, a voice in my head was shouting "CLIP IN! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD CLIP IN!"

marionheck thats what i started thinking, i was looking at the options of where i could get away with doing it on sites. probably a good job i moved jobs lol

i got stuck up one in scotland for what seemed like ages i was in a tshirt and out of nowhere a big hailstone storm started so i just clipped on and tried to shelter behind the dish id just put up til it calmed down. all good fun

Is this same Firestarter who wouldn't ride down some pissy little bank in Hebden Bridge a bit back?? lol.

🙂

Wow I'm actually quite giddy!! Never really known what I wanted to do career wise but that is just so me. A quick google and looking at some of the rope access courses it looks preety straight forward to get into.
If anyone has any experience about the industry and what its like in the current climate i'd love to know

it is brant but horses for courses lol ive jumped from a plane but still cant do nowt on a bike lol

that said you fall from height you die you fall from you bike it hurts , hurting hurts more than dying 😉

I closed my eyes all the way round oblivion at Alton Towers last week