Is this safe........................

[tigdlo]

Mate of mine is a scaffolder. Works right at the top of buildings like the shard 600feet or more. He refused to get in the brand new JCB scissor lift I hired!

Having worked on a JCB production line I wouldn't either.

 

[arther dailey]

There also other times when getting in to picker seems foolish at times........
I repaired and function tested this 17 metre cherry picker to full height, the Cherry Pickers base height was 650ft at the time....

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I hope you got paid seriously well

 

[Greeves246]

There also other times when getting in to picker seems foolish at times........
I repaired and function tested this 17 metre cherry picker to full height, the Cherry Pickers base height was 650ft at the time....

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You’re not part Mohawk are you?

 

[zzr1200]

I hope you got paid seriously well

Just another day at the office, on that job site for me, with the correct PPE perfectly safe.

It was a perfect sunny day, with a light breeze, if it had been blowing and wet, they have been told to **** ***, wet steelwork is not fun.

Had to change the 12 volt starting battery and a damaged limit switch then test...

Arrival on site to leaving 4.5 hours plus traveling...an easy day

 

[zzr1200]

You’re not part Mohawk are you?

No.....British through and through

 

[Greeves246]

Meant to add this

How Mohawk ‘Skywalkers’ Helped Build New York City's Tallest Skyscrapers | HISTORY

Native American riveting gangs worked on the 'high steel' for iconic structures like the Chrysler Building, Empire State Building, Rockefeller Plaza and more.

www.history.com

 

[zzr1200]

Meant to add this

How Mohawk ‘Skywalkers’ Helped Build New York City's Tallest Skyscrapers | HISTORY

Native American riveting gangs worked on the 'high steel' for iconic structures like the Chrysler Building, Empire State Building, Rockefeller Plaza and more.

www.history.com

I knew a few lads from up Newcastle Way on that job that were possibly related, but that may just have been a by-product of inbreeding because some of them were totally totally mad........

 

[fizzy]

Having worked on a JCB production line I wouldn't either.

Was a lot better quality than the genie or skyhawk I had before.

 

[zzr1200]

Was a lot better quality than the genie or skyhawk I had before.

Skyhawk or Skyjack?????

 

[Tinbasherdan]

Not for me thanks Heights either bother you or they don't, a mate of mine wouldn't think twice about wedging a plank under the top rail of that basket and going out for a walkabout on it, it just doesn't bother him. Self preservation kicks in with me way below that.

Bob

Used to climb with a South African Lad like that. In fact it’s the reason I stopped. He was completely devoid of fear. His party trick on a multi pitch climb would be to test his anchors by chucking himself over the edge. Absolutely terrifying and if he’d got it wrong it would have been me 200ft up with a dead body on a string waiting for mountain rescue. Odd, odd bloke.

 

[Erie Fred]

My friend got half way up the stack (roof mounted, to change the light bulbs up top), and turned around (caged ladder) to take a pix, and froze.....

The normal climber was on the roof looking up at him.

When they came back down, I asked the climber (who told me all this adventure) why he didn't take some chalk with him ?

To draw a body outline on the rubber roof just below my friend.......
Or draw a target with circles.......

 

[Smallfry]

While I would happily stand on the cliffs at Lands End in a howling gale coming ashore (I have) with the sea pounding the cliffs below, throwing water high above, which is then caught by the wind giving one a good soaking. Very exhilarating !

I don't even like standing on a chair

 

[daleyd]

I don’t think i have the picture any more on my phone but about 15 years ago I saw a guy in a factory in Spain painting the roof on a pallet on a forklift - to save getting down every time he had some scaffolding poles going to the levers so he could move backwards and forwards

No one seed to bat an eyelid…

 

[fizzy]

Skyhawk or Skyjack?????

Skyjack.
I found them all a bit wobbly though

 

[zzr1200]

Skyjack.
I found them all a bit wobbly though

Skyjack = cheaply built.

I. JLG
2. Genie
3.Skyjack

Far Eastern + JCB....... I've never operated or worked on them....

 

[Erie Fred]

Interesting perspective:

Acrophobia - Grassroots

 

[DAPPH]

Stood on the glass floor a top the CN tower in Toronto Canada , an invisible internal pair of hands slid down to my scrotum and gently pulled my family jewels up inside to my neck , my 18 month old daughter simply ran over the floor to look out the big window . People down below were simply pinhead sized from 1815.3 feet or so up .

 

[daleyd]

Stood on the glass floor a top the CN tower in Toronto Canada , an invisible internal pair of hands slid down to my scrotum and gently pulled my family jewels up inside to my neck , my 18 month old daughter simply ran over the floor to look out the big window . People down below were simply pinhead sized from 1815.3 feet or so up .

I did that as well. I ended up doing a couple of laps round before I could summon up the courage to actually step on the glass Once I was on it was okay but that first step was just too much for my brain to comprehend.

 

[gaz1]

4 you 2

 

[dobbslc]

yyesrsmago Stood on the glass floor a top the CN tower in Toronto Canada , an invisible internal pair of hands slid down to my scrotum and gently pulled my family jewels up inside to my neck , my 18 month old daughter simply ran over the floor to look out the big window . People down below were simply pinhead sized from 1815.3 feet or so up .

We were up there a few when someone dropped a glass Coke bottle on the floor.
Everyone froze even the guides! The noise it made was horrendous.