How's your head for heights?

[Chas]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=325846621604811

 

[clivehorridge]

I’d be OK with a safety tether on.

Doing what they’re doing is a bit iffy, what if they dropped one of those platform sections?

 

[Towpack]

At least they’re wearing a fall arrest harness. Reminds of Fred Dibnah plying his trade......

 

[Chris]

Yes but have you seen what the tether is tied to? That's like sawing a branch off - from the wrong end. Also that type of scaffold if designed to be in compression - ie to make a tower from the ground up. But at least they have their high viz on so they're not going to be run over.

 

[Chas]

I’d be OK with a safety tether on.

Doing what they’re doing is a bit iffy, what if they dropped one of those platform sections?

If we had to work at height over the Opera House stage all tools (and ourselves) had to have a tether on.
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[chadr]

I’d be OK with a safety tether on.....

Even with the tether, I would be frozen solid, clinging on to that frame for my dear life.....I don't do heights.


Humans would have wings, if they were meant to be that high!

 

[Chas]

Even with the tether, I would be frozen solid, clinging on to that frame for my dear life.....I don't do heights.


Humans would have wings, if they were meant to be that high!

It's OK, you'd get them after you fall off.

 

[StarCruiser]

I don’t fancy what they’re doing. As Chris says it’s like sawing off the branch you’re sitting on.

Changing light bulbs can be a bit hairy…

I hope he got well paid for that.

 

[StarCruiser]

And here’s one we made earlier…

Only a baby by comparison, but erected largely by hand.

http://www.eafa.org.uk/catalogue/861

 

[froggy Steve]

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=325846621604811

That made me feel ill! I don't like nights when doing something like that. Skyscrapers no problem....just got used to going up the ladder to the roof tent!

 

[clivehorridge]

And here’s one we made earlier…

Only a baby by comparison, but erected largely by hand.

http://www.eafa.org.uk/catalogue/861

Note the lack of the safety elf in the hot dip galvanizing workshop, no protection gear at all, eyes, breathing filters... nowt, as Fred would say.

 

[Higgy]

All those vids made my Willy go funny.. And the backs of my knees for some reason

 

[Chas]

just got used to going up the ladder to the roof tent!

 

[StarCruiser]

All those vids made my Willy go funny...

Self preservation, it was probably making its way up to the back of your neck in hope it would hit the ground last.

 

[Shayne]

There were no safety harnesses when i worked scaffolding , i never went that high but once you got past a certain height you could only fall once so it didn't matter .

 

[joinerman]

As they say falling doesn't hurt, it's the sudden stop that does.