Instant vertigo?

[shobet]

It's still available elsewhere - http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/81100201/

[nfe]

Good grief.

[Philly Q]

I think in this case the mast is so high maintaining it would be an issue (which would have to be regular due to the inclement weather at that height) and also if somebody did fall and activate the system they would get suspension trauma before anybody could get them down - there's not really room for the other guy to cut his harness and take his weight.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspension_trauma

So that's why they are not connected.

That's interesting, never heard of suspension trauma before.

In a 2006 article on the Crucifixion of Jesus, Phillip Bishop and physiologist Brian Church suggest that suspension trauma is a cause of death in crucifixion.

They picked the perfect guys to write that article, didn't they?  :lol:

[Afghan Dave]

Suspension Trauma ? ...



Sound's like a band nfe would like!  :P

[nfe]

I've searched Suspension Trauma on myspace to no avail. :lol:

I bet they would have been more to other people's taste, actually. Sounds like the name of a "progressive" metal wankery mob.

[tomjackson]

And they would play all their songs with Suspended 2 and Suspended 4 chords  :D

[Ian Price]

Watching that video gave me the willies.

[Ian Price]

Quite a few incidents with radio towers on here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_catastrophic_collapses_of_radio_masts_and_towers

[clyde billt]

Free climbing?. Not big or clever or necessary.

I do work at height and as a spark it's usually me that's carrying a toolbag hanging between me b*ll*cks.
I work on oil and gas platforms and production terminals doing electrical maintenance. I occasionally get to about 500 feet from the deck, plus whatever down to sea level but it's always on 2 ropes
I haven't been 1700 feet but after the first hundred feet or so it doesn't make much difference. If you fall (or even worse, drop something) it's gonna be a mess.

[nfe]

I haven't been 1700 feet but after the first hundred feet or so it doesn't make much difference. If you fall (or even worse, drop something) it's gonna be a mess.

Surely that's not entirely true, it might not make any difference to a person falling in terms of their chances of survival, but the chances of falling must be massively higher at 1700 feet than at 500, tiredness, the movement of the structure and the weather, aside from anything else, no?

[clyde billt]

I wouldn't say the chances of falling were significantly higher the higher you get.
The structures don't have big/fast movements.
No-one goes up any height to work if the weather's bad (it's hard enough getting me up when it's half decent), and it can be bad at any height.
And as an electrician it's in all my contracts to stop for a rest (and a brew up if at all possible) as regularly as needed

[nfe]

Surely a structure as tall and thin as the one in the video must be susceptible to some movement? And at that height, it's surely a LONG time to get up and down, if you're halfway up and the weather turns bad?

I'm guessing like, I've no idea about such things, but I'd have been very surprised if you're no more likely to fall off that than something a kilometre lower.