[TheForge] Scaffold OT

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

I've worked on desensitizing my fear of heights over the years, but 
frankly, doing your job on that one, i'd be babbling, curled in a fetal 
position having soiled myself.  pf

ries wrote:
> 20 feets?
> 
> Thats practically sitting on the ground.
> 
> I had a job a few years ago where I was tig welding 90 feet up, at the  
> absolute max reach of a 90 foot manlift. At night, hanging heavy stuff  
> with a 110' crane. Against a finished mirror glass curtain wall.
> We had to tig weld it, arc or mig could have easily left spatter on  
> $5000 window panels.
> Every time we moved the lift a bit, the thing swung back and forth for  
> five minutes.
> 
> ries
> 
> 
> 
> On Jun 17, 2009, at 11:50 PM, Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer wrote:
> 
> Some guys will go to great lengths to get high.
> The one time i arc welded at the top of a 20' ladder propped up against
> the end of a boom...I'm sure i turned white when the arc shield dropped
> into place. Was very pale and trembling when i got back to earth.
> Can't imagine doing it every day.
> 
> terry l. ridder wrote:
>> hello mike;
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, CGRAF wrote:
>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W_7uIapoHc
>>>
>>>
>>> A while back we were discussing scaffolding with terry.
>>> While this is nothing like what he was asking about, I still  
>>> thought it
>>> might prove interesting viewing over the morning coffee.
>>>
>> not many left like him in the world.
>>
>>
>>> I spend half my life on scaffolding, but steeple jacks still maze me.
>>>
>> so that is what you do in your spare time, hang out at the top of
>> chimneys. ;-)
>>
>>> Mike Graf
>>>
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