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Calling all acrophobics!

Basil

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This made my knees shake just watching the video.

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DNK

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OK, I don't mind heights ...but I could only get 5/8's thru that!

There ain't enough pencils in my protector for that!
 

startech47

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Just think about the folks who erected the tower. I used to be able to do high work, before fire school, where the 3 story ladder I was on kicked out and dumped me on to the concrete floor. Some thing in my mind has changed forever.
 

DART

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I have taken the elevator to the 990 foot level of Baltimore's candelabra tower, then had to take a 1 foot step over to the platform. Longest foot I've ever walked!!! Only did that once. (Twice actually, had to come back down) That video shows a job worth every dollar paid, and then some.
 

DrEntropy

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That's against all my instinct and training. I hate even getting on the roof of the hovel to blow off the windfall. I want an airframe around me.
 

equiprx

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That gave me a pucker and a half.
 
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Kelly saw it and said it made her feel sick.

I would imagine the decent would be worse.
 

waltesefalcon

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Wow that is a cool video, and an amazing view from on top of that tower. Not sure I'd want to climb up there, makes me appreciate those little blinking lights more.
 

weewillie

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those guys have NO nerves. It used to bother me climbing the mast on the ship to change a bulb esp in a rolling swell 'cause I would think if I fell now I would land on the deck and be killed and when she rolled if I fell I would land in the north atlantic and be lost at sea (some choice, so believe me I hung on tight)
 

jsfbond

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I'll walk top plate three stories high, my hands, feet, and I have a really great working relationship....I dunno bout that tower, theres nothing wrong with digging ditches.
 

NutmegCT

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Great video. I'm still crawling on the floor, clutching chair legs.

Reminds me of the Camino del Rey videos:

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3798j

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Whoa Nellie. But then I have trouble viewing "Lunch on a Skyscraper" and that's just a still.
 

DrEntropy

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In my yout, I climbed a 300' radio tower to get a shot of the antenna array in Warin, Thailand. Scared me &*^%less. Apparently the facility is gone there .

Gotta find those negs. I'd puke at the thought of doing that now.
 
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