Phobias

[Michael Sparks]

for those afraid of heights
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Woah! Adrenaline rush! yeah that got my blood pumping..

 

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I would feel special getting caught in a natural phenomenon, shit that is excitement !

It'll probably happen soon.Weather been crazy lately.
I live in the fucking city and we had a tornado warning.

 

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I used to inspect four towers quarterly - each is 685' tall, climb by hand each one every 3 months & to be honest after the first 75 feet or so you realize if you fall you're gonna die & climbing higher ain't going to make it any worse so you keep going.
One of my guys dropped a crescent wrench from the top & it went clean through the bed of our work pick-up.

Thats exactly what I was thinking.You didn't use no safety hooks or nothing either?

 

[DSB65]

you couldn't pay me enough to do that job.most of the way up they weren't even connected.

new a couple guys that did this..and they would get fucked and do it...but it paid damn good money...

 

[GreatwhiteNorth]

Thats exactly what I was thinking.You didn't use no safety hooks or nothing either?

We had a device called a "Safety climb", but nothing is fail safe & Murphy just waits for idiots to depend on a safety system so he can make it fail.
Here's a shot from a birds eye view - remember, towers are 685' tall & for perspective the building in the center is approx 18,000 sq ft.

 

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We had a device called a "Safety climb", but nothing is fail safe & Murphy just waits for idiots to depend on a safety system so he can make it fail.
Here's a shot from a birds eye view - remember, towers are 685' tall & for perspective the building in the center is approx 18,000 sq ft.

That is insane,ever make a little mistake and thought you were going down?You probably cant panic at all up there.

 

[DSB65]

Like they say..it aint the fall that kills you its the sudden stop....

 

[Michael Sparks]

It's not really "Happy" excitement, I've ridden out a couple Hurricanes (the eye of Andrew went directly over my home immideatly after she made landfall) and believe me it is not all its cracked up to be. At one point during that storm a 10 or 12' two x four speared our concrete block house & made it out the other wall after going through a sofa & end-table !
As if that weren't enough interaction with big freakin wind, I used to ride ships in the Caribbean & when a storm came through our job was to tuck in behind the eye & follow it to landfall - the idea being if someone got into trouble and needed rescuing
*POOF* there we were.

I'm a bit crazy

 

[Michael Sparks]

It'll probably happen soon.Weather been crazy lately.
I live in the fucking city and we had a tornado warning.

I hope so, I could use a lift out of this place.

 

[Michael Sparks]

I live in New Mexico. Everything here bites or stings or pinches. This is what we have running around.



Child-of-the-Earth (Jerusalem Cricket):

I like this lil guy, it looks so damn interesting.

 

[Michael Sparks]

What gets your blood pumping DSB65 ?

 

[GreatwhiteNorth]

I'm a bit crazy

All it would take to cure you of that is one or two experiences in 200 + winds with lethal projectiles slamming into/through everything around you.
I personally can do with out that anymore, now I just worry about Tsunami's & earthquakes and volcano's (oh my !)

 

[fdd2blk]

I like this lil guy, it looks so damn interesting.

until you find one in your bed.

 

[Michael Sparks]

All it would take to cure you of that is one or two experiences in 200 + winds with lethal projectiles slamming into/through everything around you.
I personally can do with out that anymore, now I just worry about Tsunami's & earthquakes and volcano's (oh my !)

Well i gotta get a lasso to ride my tornado. Suppose it would be chance that i avoid being killed. Maybe i will reevaluate this.

 

[Michael Sparks]

until you find one in your bed.

I would cuddle it ! haha lmao

 

[DSB65]

what gets your blood pumping dsb65 ?

i have a fear of crazy women and going back to prison......

 

[Michael Sparks]

I feel ya, Never liked confinement myself. I am like a wild animal.