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Perry

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Posted: 11:11am 14 Jun 2013
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This may make some of you cringe but when you need a tower taken down quickly some times it is easier to cut the guy wires, sit back, and remember the moment.

Perry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3nj6WDTVws&feature=youtu.be


 
Madness

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Posted: 12:18pm 14 Jun 2013
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I watched that then this tower video and it made me cringe a lot more and really feel sick. Tower

The 24 metre tower in my profile pic was enough for me.Edited by Madness 2013-06-15
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wallablack

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Posted: 11:24am 21 Jun 2013
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  Madness said   I watched that then this tower video and it made me cringe a lot more and really feel sick. Tower

The 24 metre tower in my profile pic was enough for me.


This bloke is MAD...fair enough climb a perfectly sound tower but to step out and put all of his weight on that outrigger held on by two pretty small U bolts. He hooked onto the outrigger too so if those two U bolts failed he would have gone with it. May still have been on the safety rope though...

Very cool though
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Privatteer
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Posted: 10:27pm 21 Jun 2013
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Brings back memories. Worksafe make it hard to climb towers these days not matter how impractical it is sometimes to get a 100m crane in for a 5min job.

Bracket is a bit more solid than u-bolts and he was still clipped to tower. However the way he had it clipped on sideways is really bad and in a fall it would most likely fracture. Those large scaffhold hooks are only rated for vertical loading.
 
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