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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 15 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

I watched a video yesterday of someone climbing down a high rise on a tether to work on an A/C unit. Even seeing all the steps in protection and redundant safety measures. Nope. Not me.

Then there was one long ago I saw of a guy doing maintenance on a radio tower. Climbed up the interior ladder most of the way, then got on the outside to get to the part he was checking. At one point he had to disconnect and reconnect his safety line because of stuff in the way. NOPE.

[–] zout@fedia.io 14 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

At one point he had to disconnect and reconnect his safety line because of stuff in the way.

This is why you need to wear two lines.

[–] hateisreality@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Individual_Orchid@sh.itjust.works 4 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Parachute might from that height..

I've always said I'm not afraid of heights, but a climb like that might challenge my stance on that I think.

Edit: spelling

[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 8 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Watch this video of Britain's most famous steeplejack, Fred Dibnah, erecting a scaffold on a 200ft chimney without any kind of safety line, in 1982:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3ma9iYx4rg

[–] Jerb322@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

And they tell me I'm nuts.

[–] hateisreality@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

That was a TV tower on the Midwest plains and truly horrifying... The bit about the weather..

I believe This is the video you saw.

[–] NannerBanner@literature.cafe 2 points 7 hours ago

Not that video, but I remember another one from a little more than a decade ago where the guy was talking the entire time, explaining the process (and joking at one point about how only the new guys constantly used both safety hooks because it doubled or tripled the time of the work). Then you realize that there was another fella climbing with him when they get up on the little platform.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe. Thank you. Nightmares now unlocked again.

[–] hateisreality@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

They're our nightmares now

[–] PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 1 points 12 hours ago

I thought this would be about the 2022 movie "Fall." Quite haunting, that one...