Would you climb a 1786-ft tall tower?
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May 25th, 2013 at 11:45:24 AM
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Since gambling involves risk, I'm curious if any of you risk-takers out there would ever do a job like this?
As for me.....hell NO!
As for me.....hell NO!
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May 25th, 2013 at 12:25:37 PM
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When I was young I would have done it no problem. Now I`m too old and fat.
The mountain is tall but grass grows on top of the mountain.
May 25th, 2013 at 12:39:08 PM
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In a heartbeat. Stuff like that, working on windmills, painting suspension bridges, c’mon. Can’t beat the view.
Sure beats sitting at a desk all day in a suit =p
Sure beats sitting at a desk all day in a suit =p
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May 25th, 2013 at 1:32:55 PM
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Face, when I saw your name on the 'Recent Threads' list with a reply to this post, I just knew what your answer would be. :)
You've always struck me as an adventurous dude with absolutely no fear at all.
You've always struck me as an adventurous dude with absolutely no fear at all.
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May 25th, 2013 at 2:24:56 PM
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May 25th, 2013 at 2:27:32 PM
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Yeah =) I understand I might take the “no fear” attitude a little too far, but the level of safety to which many people take things just baffles me. It’s probably unwise to be on my side of the bell curve, granted, but I find it equally as bad to be my mirror image, so to speak. A life without risk is no life at all, and I don’t know how people can tolerate living in bubbles.
Fear is not for avoiding, it’s for overcoming. Everyone dies. Not everyone lives.
1: Getting fat
2: Monkeys
Everyone's scared of something lol
Fear is not for avoiding, it’s for overcoming. Everyone dies. Not everyone lives.
Quote: Beethoven9thYou've always struck me as an adventurous dude with absolutely no fear at all.
1: Getting fat
2: Monkeys
Everyone's scared of something lol
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May 28th, 2013 at 7:50:37 PM
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I once changed the stobe beacons on a Loran C tower that was 625' high. That was from the ground not from on top of a building. It took us almost an hour to climb to the top so we took our lunch with us and just stayed on the tower until the 3 beacons were changed. There was also a set of beacons at about the 400' level so the climb wasn't quite as bad for that set. The tower was just dismantled last year since Loran C has been shut down since 2010. GPS does a better job now but hope we never lose the satellites or there will be a lot of ships in coastal waters in big trouble.
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May 28th, 2013 at 8:07:43 PM
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Quote: Beethoven9thAs for me.....hell NO!
As for me...hell YES. I'd pay good money to climb that thing.
"For with much wisdom comes much sorrow." -- Ecclesiastes 1:18 (NIV)
May 28th, 2013 at 8:18:45 PM
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Well you would have liked my job then Wiz and I did get paid even extra for high time.Quote: WizardAs for me...hell YES. I'd pay good money to climb that thing.
Be careful when you follow the masses, the M is sometimes silent.
May 28th, 2013 at 8:43:14 PM
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First you climb, then you jump.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22698403
Quote:An extreme sport star from Russia has successfully completed the world's highest base jump - leaping off the north face of Mount Everest.
Valery Rozov made the jump from a point 7,220m (23,680ft) above sea level.
The stunt took more than two years to plan and marked almost 60 years to the day the anniversary of the first ascent up Mount Everest.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22698403
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May 28th, 2013 at 9:10:52 PM
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Nope. Well, not free climb it at least. I'd do if it properly secured.
Yo field, yo come, both gunna get you some!
May 28th, 2013 at 9:38:40 PM
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Watching the video made me feel slightly queasy....
"Then you can admire the real gambler, who has neither eaten, slept, thought nor lived, he has so smarted under the scourge of his martingale, so suffered on the rack of his desire for a coup at trente-et-quarante" - Honore de Balzac, 1829
May 28th, 2013 at 9:57:46 PM
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Quote: Beethoven9thSince gambling involves risk, I'm curious if any of you risk-takers out there would ever do a job like this?
If a casino game ever gives me the option of winning money or falling a thousand-plus feet, it's time to quit gambling.
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May 29th, 2013 at 3:04:36 AM
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I worked my way through college with my FCC First Class RadioTelephone Operator License which included doing stuff like working on transmitters and taking readings at tower bases but... NO... I would not go up anything. Heck, when it comes time to change the light bulb on a ceiling light, I hold the ladder for my wife.
