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Originally Posted by mark_in_manc
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Originally Posted by Radio Wrangler
I was still shaky after watching that video.
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Me too. I sent the video to my friend who's a rope-access man (interestingly, not a climber - years ago he needed a job, his brother got him into it, and he found he had a head for it) - and he said he wouldn't really fancy it! |
I used to do scaffolding in my youth up to about 25 stories - what I found is I was nervous up to about 5 then it became almost so unreal you lost fear of it and got on with the job. However I did have a decent platform around me unlike those guys. My moment of truth came one day when I was 3 stories up, the scaffold had not been tied to the building and it being New Zealand - we had a minor earthquake. Nothing like being 20 feet up and swaying merrily from side to side to make you find alternative employment!!!