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01/01/11, 02:03 PM
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Could you climb a 1768 foot tower?
This video shows the perspective from a climbers view. I can't even imagine trying it no matter how much it pays.
http://www.liveleak.com/mp53/player....0365%26embed=1
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sorry, wrong forum
(moved from Politics)
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How many ways can I think of to say 'no'? Actually, I wouldn't have a problem with the height, but the tower itself would have to be a little better suited for climbing than that one.
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01/01/11, 02:39 PM
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I use to do that kind of work 30 years ago. Once you get over 50 ft up or so, any fall is going to kill you, so after the first 50 ft, its all gravy.
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01/01/11, 03:20 PM
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They could build a new tower for what it would cost them for me to climb that thing. Just like washing windows on those high rise buildings. They had better have a way to lay the building on it's side if they want me to wash the windows.
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01/01/11, 03:51 PM
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I probably couldn't do it if it was laying on the ground!
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Thats when you hope this ain't the tower cousin Bubba welded, when he broke all the speed welding records he said he broke.Especially after seeing some of his stuck together stuff he called welded. 
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01/01/11, 04:57 PM
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My hands sweat profusely while watching that. No way...not for me. I usually don't have a huge problems with heights but that's too much for me.
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01/01/11, 05:02 PM
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Originally Posted by d1337
My hands sweat profusely while watching that. No way...not for me. I usually don't have a huge problems with heights but that's too much for me.
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Me neither, I just don't do them.. 
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If I was the lead climber the highest salary would have to go to the guy who was climbing below me. After all, I'd probably need new undies when the job was done.....
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I could but it'd take me a lot longer now than it would have 20 or 30 years ago.
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being of the female persuasion, i felt my kahunas shrink and I don't even have any!!!!
Lordy that is a couple of brave fellas!
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If anyone wants to try it, there's a 2000 ft tower just 3 miles from my house
I'll be happy to watch you do it 
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I have never liked heights, and I think I may have wet myself just watching this. I have a 70 foot silo and have never climbed the outside ladder, I had to climb the inside one, but that didn`t seem to bother as much. > Thanks Marc
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01/01/11, 08:18 PM
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No, I could never, but I do have a new respect for those who do!
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01/01/11, 10:29 PM
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You couldn't pay me enough to climb the part inside the cage let alond the 'free climbing' part...
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01/01/11, 10:29 PM
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I lasted about 5 seconds into the climb before hyperventilating.
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01/01/11, 11:14 PM
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It didn't bother me until he looked down.....
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Gave it another go. I guess I could do it if I had to...if my child's life depended on it, for instance. But only the part that is like a ladder. Those rungs that are only attached on one side, one million times less likely to do that.
What is the tower for, anyway? I hope they pay those guys a ton of money. Oh my gosh, he just took the hook off at the top....he's standing at the top....now both of them....you have to trust the other guy isn't going to fall and grab for you.....I DON'T THINK SO. Way too high, way too much time to think as you fall.
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I have a second cousin who climbed a tower near us when he was a freshman or sophomore in high school. He was always a brainy nerdy type kid. The tower wasn't nearly that tall but it was up there. Had red lights on top to warn airplanes. Not sure what it was for back then but it had flat gray panels on top and he laid on one looking around with binoculars. Cops came and made him climb down and they put a fence around it. Never understood why they figured a guy nutty enough to climb the tower would be afraid to climb the fence.
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