Other Means Posted September 15, 2010 Share Posted September 15, 2010 This would stay broke. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txdv_oNq81I&feature=player_embedded 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Other Means Posted September 19, 2010 Author Share Posted September 19, 2010 And here it is with a working video: http://io9.com/5639113/the-scariest-video-you-have-ever-watched-in-the-name-of-science 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieseltaylor Posted September 19, 2010 Share Posted September 19, 2010 Good find. I wonder what they get paid. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted September 19, 2010 Share Posted September 19, 2010 Oh man, that is possibly worse than the one of the guy climbing off a helicopter onto high tension power lines to service them. I wouldn't want any part of either of those jobs. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Affentitten Posted September 19, 2010 Share Posted September 19, 2010 What strruck me was how flimsy things are up there. And seriously, what good is clipping your safety hook onto a short piece of open-ended of 10mm steel? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REVS Posted September 20, 2010 Share Posted September 20, 2010 As a vertigo sufferer, I lasted about 35 seconds into that video, then I quit. Does anyone have any live explosives juggling videos instead? Or tiger wrestling? I can handle those. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeatEtr Posted September 20, 2010 Share Posted September 20, 2010 Whoa now that's hard to watch. Three words come to mind, f*ck that job! :eek: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
womble Posted September 20, 2010 Share Posted September 20, 2010 They really should have built protection systems into those towers: ratcheted rails or something you can just clip into and climb and it drags its way up, but won't go back down unless you want it to. He let go with both hands to fiddle with the carabiner, looked like, once he was stood at the top. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackhorse Posted September 20, 2010 Share Posted September 20, 2010 They really should have built protection systems into those towers: ratcheted rails or something you can just clip into and climb and it drags its way up, but won't go back down unless you want it to. He let go with both hands to fiddle with the carabiner, looked like, once he was stood at the top. Yep...piss-poor design. Unacceptable. That said..those SOBs are friggin CRAZY. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoolaman Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 There's not even a decent ladder all the way up. Climbing up the outside framework is madness. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elmar Bijlsma Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 What looked most dangerous of all to me were the bits where one section ended and another section started, with different ladders, with very little accommodation to let the climber make the transition between them. I'd be tempted to pack a parachute for a job like that. That or resigning. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flamingknives Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 The easiest and cheapest way to apply protection to something like that would be a steel wire and something like a Ladsafe: http://www.lonestarsafety.com/index.aspx?Command=GroupInfo&GroupID=17885 Possibly two ladsafes so you can transfer from one to another without unclipping totally. The clip on the 10mm bar is fine as it is easily going to support his weight and the turn up at the end is going to make sure that it won't slip off unless he does something strange. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Affentitten Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 The turn up at the end is nothing more than a small knob. If he falls outwards I doubt it would be effective. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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