Climbing accident, Northwich, Cheshire

[AHPP]

[AHPP]

Shows the setup

 

 

 

Shows the execution

 

 

[peds]

'kin hell. That seems really poorly thought out.

[Steve Bullman]

I don’t like to be judgmental about these things specially given the outcome, but it really is hard to understand how anyone thought this was a good idea: climber and ground staff alike 

[Joe Newton]

1 hour ago, 5thelement said:

 

I know the first point of the WAHR, but we can obviously assume that that horse has well and truly bolted. 
A decision was made to WAH, was there a safer method than climbing, probably several, but none of them were used. 

Why is it obvious to assume that?

 

Given the terrible work methods chosen, is it too much of a stretch to imagine that exuberence took over from practical, risk averse thinking?

[Joe Newton]

43 minutes ago, Steve Bullman said:

I don’t like to be judgmental about these things specially given the outcome, but it really is hard to understand how anyone thought this was a good idea: climber and ground staff alike 

I don't think anyone's being harsh on the lad.

 

I've done the daft hero stuff before when I had something to prove. Got away with it so far too. After a while I came to realise that getting away with it is great until you don't. Plenty of hero's in graveyards.

 

These days I give myself a little pat on the back for walking away/reorganising poorly thought out/dangerous jobs.

[topchippyles]

These is not a chap on this forum who's not cut corners at some time or other in their working career. The amount of times I've gone up ladders to do a roof repair knowing I should have put up scaffolding ive lost count.