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17 September 2010

I've had nightmares that looked a bit like this.

post by: BoringPostcards at: 09:07 | 21 comments

Someone at work sent me this link. My response? "Oh hell no!"

posted by toastedbeagle 17 September | 09:10

The ladder wouldn't be so bad .. but those one-sided rungs at the top ... *shudder*

posted by initapplette 17 September | 09:20

Egad. I'm sitting on my couch and this made me grab the arm. Nope. Could never do something like that.

posted by redvixen 17 September | 09:52

The ladder wouldn't be so bad .. but those one-sided rungs at the top ... *shudder*

Yeah, I can just imagine how the conversation would go with someone explaining to me that I had to climb up that.

Them: "See, we stuck this rebar in here for you to climb up."

Me: "... !"

Them: "Oh but we bent the ends up for you so your hands won't slip off the end."

Me: "... !!"

posted by FishBike 17 September | 10:00

I'm afraid of heights, but for whatever reason this video doesn't trigger the atavistic panic in me that it does in so many people --- until the end. When he climbs up onto the tiny platform, my vague sense of swimminess tranforms into sheer panic. The first time I watched it, I found myself mechanically repeating "Please clip on. Please clip on. Please clip. Please clip. Please clip. Pleaseclippleaseclippleasecli--- ahhhhhh."

Also, at the very top, my brain started insisting that the second climber was a threat, not an assistant. I don't know if that's just the fear of being unbalanced by a second person's movements or if my primate brain is speaking loudly there about danger in the treetops.

posted by Elsa 17 September | 10:19

I couldn't watch the whole thing. And I'm not scared of heights.

posted by Specklet 17 September | 10:29

I hate heights. I did watch part of it, and it didn't freak me out, but I can watch rollercoaster videos too and not freak out - whereas actual rollercoasters - no way in bloody hell.

posted by flex 17 September | 10:44

I don't really mind heights at all, but that video made me literally break out in sweat.

posted by BoringPostcards 17 September | 11:04

My fear wouldn't be the height so much as fatigue. That seems like some tough work and I just kept thinking "what if you climb up there and then your hand starts to cramp?"

posted by arse_hat 17 September | 11:26

94 seconds in and nonononononononononono. Cannot finish, must go hug the floor.

posted by notquitemaryann 17 September | 11:59

Awww, it's been yanked.

posted by deborah 17 September | 13:20

It's all over YouTube, so I changed the link to one that's still up.

posted by BoringPostcards 17 September | 13:31

I am okay with going up tall things like ladders, it's always the coming down part that I can't handle.

there's no way I'd ever do that job. I kept wondering when he'd belay or what the safety requirements were for that.

then he got to the top and I was like...meep...*click*

posted by lonefrontranger 17 September | 14:38

That one is gone, too, BP. GRAR! What are the tags to search for?

posted by deborah 17 September | 17:05

Search Youtube for "climbing tower to heaven"

posted by BoringPostcards 17 September | 18:47

Why it's gone.

posted by arse_hat 17 September | 18:53

Looks like the genie's out of that particular bottle.

posted by BoringPostcards 17 September | 21:51

Thanks for the info, arse_hat. I take it this frame is from the video? If so, I'm doubly sorry I missed seeing it! (I'm not afraid of heights, I'm afraid of falling!)

posted by deborah 18 September | 00:44

I think I found it. If not, this one is pretty scary and from the same source (OLE).

posted by deborah 18 September | 01:00

That's it deborah.

posted by arse_hat 18 September | 01:11

Why the video was pulled:

The footage of the climb came from a friend of mine that does this type of work, I have know him for several years and he has helped me many times in the past. Recently he gave me this video he shot on one of his jobs. I showed him the edited video and he approved it, but not the audio as it was added later, and I put it up on TheOnLineEngineer.Org and You Tube over the weekend. On Monday he was getting calls from colleagues telling him that they were concerned about what the video showed. His world is a very small one, and you don’t want to bite the hand that feeds you! Some facility owners are concerned about liability and such and may second thoughts about him if they think he does not take safety seriously.

So he asked me to take it down, and I did...

Once again I am sorry about pulling the video, I know that every time I looked at it my legs got weak, there’s no way I could do that type of work. AND THATS MY POINT – I need this guy who made the video, we plan to do more of them, but it won’t happen if he can’t get work because he’s been black listed by the industry.

posted by TheophileEscargot 20 September | 09:07

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