So you think you're tough?

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

Whoops! Pressed sent too soon!

 

Take tool bag off and anchor separately once work position reached.

[Joe Newton]

Edit: moderated by gross alcohol consumption.

[ArthurBottlesworth]

My missis used to test lifts

You stand on top of them ( no safety rail) take them up to highest point then let them drop

Auto brake should then kick in

 

I told her not to tell me when she was doing this

 

She tells me vertical ladders are knackering and she wouldn't go up that tower......

 

She is lot braver than me

 

( you test them at highest point because emergency brakes puts rough spot on rails making ride a bit rough at that point)

[difflock]

I believe it was the Navaho (prob mishspeled) who excelled at skyscraper construction.

Regarding this being an evolved trait, possibly, as some of the native American tribes were cliff dwellers, for community safety.

Therefore it should have been an evolutationary selective way of life.

[TGB]

I know someone who used to work comms towers. They were/are expected to do more than one tower a day. So getting up fast is good, getting down fast is also good. Then it's a drive, maybe into the next county, then up the second. Pays good money if your get up & down in time. But you've got to be at the tower's base by 07:30 or before. If you don't get the second tower done in one day, it's easier to get to a local b+b or camp close by, so you can be up the tower at the crack of dawn - companies don't like powering down, so getting the job done in a given timescale is good.

Edited December 22, 2013 by TGB

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

Regarding this being an evolved trait, possibly, as some of the native American tribes were cliff dwellers, for community safety.

Therefore it should have been an evolutationary selective way of life.

 

Fair point, hadn't thought of that!!

[ArthurBottlesworth]

Sounds like hell to me

[Hobbsurf]

Not a job where you'd want to forget a bit of vital kit in the toolbag...........

 

Russ

[ArthurBottlesworth]

You'd only forget something once .......

[Goaty]

This was posted a while back, still has the same effect.http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/climbers-talk/44929-ermmmm-no-thanks.html