Phobias

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for those afraid of heights
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[video=youtube;68fJP35FxyQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68fJP35FxyQ&feature=related[/video]

[video=youtube;tgO4Gd4RhvM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgO4Gd4RhvM[/video]

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Michael Sparks said:

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

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GreatwhiteNorth said:

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.

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...... said:

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

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...... said:

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

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GreatwhiteNorth said:

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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GreatwhiteNorth said:

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.

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...... said:

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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Carne Seca said:

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):

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Michael Sparks said:

I'm a bit crazy

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Michael Sparks said:

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

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GreatwhiteNorth said:

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 !)

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fdd2blk said:

until you find one in your bed.

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michael sparks said:

what gets your blood pumping dsb65 ?

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