The Original O'l Farts Club.

[Sun&Soil]

this question has bothered me for a long time….that and quicksand





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I hope so!

Picture is from a 3 year project I just finished surveying for. 110 miles of a 345kV line.

 

[Sun&Soil]

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I hope so!

Picture is from a 3 year project I just finished surveying for. 110 miles of a 345kV line.

I was thinking this guy had a cool job until the helicopter dropped the second lineman on the other side of the ladder. I like my coworkers, but not enough to be that close to them.

 

[Boo]

In my younger days, I used to work with steel and being on 100 foot aerial lift, or a 40 foot ladder, didn’t phase me in the least. One day I was approaching the top of a parapet of a building using a ladder when I froze. I’ve never been able to do heights after that again.

 

[Putembk]

Hello................

 

[Gray Wolf]

this question has bothered me for a long time….that and quicksand





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Ostensibly no, as you are not grounded.

In my younger days, I used to work with steel and being on 100 foot aerial lift, or a 40 foot ladder, didn’t phase me in the least. One day I was approaching the top of a parapet of a building using a ladder when I froze. I’ve never been able to do heights after that again.

I had serious acrophobia from a long fall as a kid until I took up skydiving, which made it go away.

 

[Putembk]

Never been afraid of heights but my balance isn't what it used to be so I don't put myself in dangerous situations anymore.

 

[Gray Wolf]

Never been afraid of heights but my balance isn't what it used to be so I don't put myself in dangerous situations anymore.

My balance is still pretty good but I can't hang like a monkey anymore or roll gracefully, besides finding the 24' ladder too heavily awkward, so hire the stalwart young girls and boys to do high work for me now.

 

[Patwillie]

345KV .. Crunchy

 

[Sun&Soil]

345KV .. Crunchy

Yes sir! Changed out the old wooden poles for some giant steel.

 

[Putembk]

My balance is still pretty good but I can't hang like a monkey anymore or roll gracefully, besides finding the 24' ladder too heavily awkward, so hire the stalwart young girls and boys to do high work for me now.

I don't feel comfortable getting on the roof and cleaning gutters anymore. I have hired it done the last two years.

 

[Patwillie]

'79 I was a derrick hand, which is at the top and mostly used when trippin' in or out ... ..long days when 8K+ depth

great monies and benefits though

but no mo heights for me ..

 

[dogzter]

I am higher than a Georgia pine right now.

 

[Putembk]

I am higher than a Georgia pine right now.

Ha ha....I think you are talking about a different kind of high.....

 

[Sun&Soil]

I am higher than a Georgia pine right now.

I wish! Come on 4pm...

 

[Boo]

I went skydiving on a bet back in 1970, no static line or tandem jumping...I just dove out the door and pulled the D ring...chute didn't deploy and there was no back up...I had a partial deployed chute that whipped me in circles for 40 miles of free floating...I came down thru the high voltage towers, skimming the wires close enough to feel the static discharge...my chute hooked one of the insulators and slowed me until I stopped about 20' from the ground...the place was run by pirates and they didn't properly pack my chute...2 chickies in a datsun pickup found me and took me back to the jump site...I want to kill whoever packed that damn chute...never again...

 

[Putembk]

I have never jumped out of an airplane and never will!

 

[ramblinman]

I will never jump out of a perfectly good airplane. Looks like 3 months before I can go back to work. Shitpissdamn.

 

[Rgd]

One day I was approaching the top of a parapet of a building using a ladder when I froze.

I froze just reading this

 

[SubGirl]

Ha ha....I think you are talking about a different kind of high.....

I know but I’m higher than a kite just talking about heights.

 

[Unca Walt]

I also carry a 12VDC compressor in the Ford EV as well as a tire repair kit, because it doesn't have a spare. I didn't want to use it this time, because their life is limited and this is the second one I've owned, so I try not to use them any more often than necessary.

The bi-planes were running wooden props, so a prop collision with the fat boy would be both's demise.

Lemme tellya that an aluminuimium prop would fare no better. It was a scene that depended upon no pilots being in the audience to hoot and slap their knees. That was possibobble in the 1950's...