being an old tinbanger in the industrial sector before tieing off was mandatory,we did alot of crazy stuff,and i was pretty brazen but i near had to shut that off halfway through.Thank god for compensation/worksafe rules
-- Edited by timbuk on Sunday 6th of June 2010 10:46:35 PM
-- Edited by timbuk on Sunday 6th of June 2010 10:47:02 PM
I've read your comments enough to know I won't be watching. I have a huge fear of heights, and get wobbly knees when it doesn't even make sense. I can't even look off a bridge.
When we went to Michigan in 2000 for POCI, we crossed the Mackinac bridge. The kids were about 3 and 5. They bugged dad for a long time that he crossed that bridge in the inside lane. I couldn't bring myself to drive in the outside lane, close to the edge.
I have never been able to understand how people have no fear of heights. I just don't know the feeling.
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Has anyone seen the episode of Dirty Jobs when Mike Rowe was working on top of that giant windmill generator? That was insane as well. They had a rope to keep them from falling over the edge however there were no railings. The camera man was inches from the edge!
I saw iron workers in the late 70's. They were working 11 stories up. No safety lines. Walking across beams, leaning out to grab the next beam to be placed, riding the ball up on the crane, and the worst was coffee & lunch break. They'd walk over to a steel column (a wide flange) and step off into thin air. They'd free fall next to the column, then reach out, grab the flange of the column and using their foot and hands, they'd slow their descent. The trip down would take a few seconds. At the bottom, they'd slow themselves enough that the could just walk away. The first time I saw one do this I just about lost my breakfast. I don't like heights either so I could not watch these guys work. Just made me sick. I had to take progress photos of the job every shift and would wait until the guys were on the ground so I didn't have to watch them. I was told there were special rules for these guys - no safety lines required - almost no rules period. I saw it with my own eyes but still cannot believe the things they did.
-- Edited by 66 Beau on Monday 7th of June 2010 08:47:53 AM
I've read your comments enough to know I won't be watching. I have a huge fear of heights, and get wobbly knees when it doesn't even make sense. I can't even look off a bridge.
When we went to Michigan in 2000 for POCI, we crossed the Mackinac bridge. The kids were about 3 and 5. They bugged dad for a long time that he crossed that bridge in the inside lane. I couldn't bring myself to drive in the outside lane, close to the edge.
I have never been able to understand how people have no fear of heights. I just don't know the feeling.
Ditto!
And although I can only speculate on what the young dude is doing (being unwilling to watch), the Emergency Rooms have a term for that - YMIS (pronoounced yimmies) - Young Male Immortality Syndrome i.e. having no brains yet, they think they are immortal and nothing can hurt them, eh?
Dave
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