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There would have to be a helluva lot of guns with people willing to use them pointed at me before I’d even give that consideration.
No way, no how, never. I have a healthy fear of heights, just watching that gave me the heebie jeebies.
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Meh. Stuff like that is easy when you’re young and immortal, with more testosterone than sense.
I was a roof rat when I was young and skinny, which meant I’d put on 50 pounds of gear, screw up my balance with an air tank, blind myself on my own mask sweat, then climb a hastily erected ladder onto a flaming house’s pitched roof with a K saw and the goal of running to approximately where the fire was, stop when you get to where the shingles bubble, cut a large square hole in the roof, then poke into it with a pike pole to collapse the plaster ceiling until the flames leapt up to ventilate the house. Wasn’t no thing for any of the 20 to 30 year olds I ran with.
Yeah, when you’re young.
Now, after 30 years punctuated by a fever so bad that it danaged my inner ear to the point I had to relearn how to walk, I was extremely uncomfortable laddering my ranch house that WASN’T on fire just so I could check my overpriced roofer’s ridge vent work. I’ve deteriorated so bad I couldn’t even look over the edge where a walkout basement makes my house a 2 story without vertigo. I crawled on my hands and knees instead of walking like a man to the ladder, slinking slowly down rung by rung because if I broke something, I wouldn’t be able to work.
Lots of things are easy when you’re young, not worried about consequences (if you think of them at all), have a fully functional vestibular system, and are pretty sure you’re immortal anyway.
But time makes fools of us all. Even when watching other people be foolishly dangerous.
Yeah, its stupid. No question.
But at least he had the ballz to do it.
I wonder if very many American kids do any more.
In my line of work I deal with “at height” construction and the means to properly secure yourself and the tools and materials you are dealing with. That video makes me cringe!
Not only is he risking his life, but those below him:
https://www.inquisitr.com/1584070/man-killed-by-falling-tape-measure-1-pound-tape-measure-falls-50-stories-kills-man
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Totally insane! Total danger! Total stupidity! Total Suicide!
My guess is China, (known for general absence of, or building codes loosely followed within compliance), because:
The guy looks Chinese.
Polluted air (very likely from nearby coal-fired plants/incinerators without ANY emission controls and chaotic auto traffic on streets below).
Absence of any OSHA-like regulations (no body harness, steel-toed boots (looks like loafer-sneakers) .
Scaffold: No fall protection/no fall arrest system, guard rails, stable walking surfaces etc., etc., etc!
UNBELIEVABLY INSANE!
The agility of a cat!
Or a squirrel.
About 36′ was the tallest scaffold I helped erect – but we had enough sense to put a scaffold board on each level.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
I’m surprised he’s wearing shoes…..
Native Americans are said not to have vertigo. When I was a 6 years old I saw a performance of Native Americans where one was playing a recorder-type flute standing on a 1-foot diameter platform at the top of a 30 foot pole.
NFW!!
My knees get weak just watching.
He’s just asking for a swarm of Murder Hornets to attack him in the face while he’s fooling around up there.
https://twitter.com/RudawEnglish/status/940483906926718977
put up a lot of scaffolding back in the day …. NEVER put up one like that!
hard hat story … we were working on repairing the chain-drive skimmers in the floatation tanks at one of our 30 mdg sewage treatment plants. these were two-tiered skimmer units (skim the scum off the top & the sludge off the bottom). anyways, we had to work off of 18′ extension ladders to reach the top of the scum tier. one of the old-timers fell off one of the ladders & had a hard fall. supervisor walks up & says “was he wearing a hard hat?” looks over, grabs a spare hard hat & lays it next to ‘Norman’. “now you call the amalance”
(‘Norman’ only had contusions & bruising & a limp for a couple of weeks)
It’s easy when you have nothing to live for.
SNS AT 5:11 PM
Thanks for the reminder That I should get on the ten foot step ladder and do the gutters on Monday…
I used to climb poles on hooks and use ladders every day… well, 5 days a week. I fell off a few poles from my hooks, not from very high, and it was very hard to do it again. That kind of shit where you lowside a motorcycle with a few scratches, but still have to get back on the bike to go home.
My worst ladder trick I never even fell. I was pulling up a drop from the wrong end on a 28 foot ladder and I pulled the ladder off the building. I caught the mortar joint of the brickwork with one finger to keep from dying on the edge of the pool below me. I damn sure wasn’t going to drop the drop. HAA! Then I remembered that I’m an idiot and should have done the house end first. Fun shit.
Anymouse
AT 10:51 PM
“SNS AT 5:11 PM
Thanks for the reminder That I should get on the ten foot step ladder and do the gutters on Monday…”
…hope you and your ladder are in better shape than me and mine. I was taking down Christmas decorations from the soffit on an 8′ aluminum painter’s ladder the last guy left me when it folded like tissue paper with me leaning off to one side near the top, bouncing me off the concrete porch after my mad attenpt to scramble down wasn’t entirely successful. God waa merciful though so I only hit an apparently unimportant part of my head and spine, so once I got up and looked around enough to be sure I wasn’t in the world’s most boring coma I looked at the ladder and found it said 150 LBS.
I don’t know what 15 year old they thought could use that, but I haven’t been there since jr. high so it was pretty understandable why it failed, if not why it DIDN’T the OTHER half-dozen times I used it.
Check your equipment, is all I’m saying.
Along with your body mass index…
Spring has sprung, the grass has riz, I wonder how my fucking rain gutters is. It’s May. You don’t need to worry about your freaken rain gutters for quite a while. Seek help.
When I was young I could do those 60 foot poles. Rest every 20 feet going up. When Ian was about 6 years old he told his mother, my wife, that I wasn’t scared of heights. I guess that’s true. Height doesn’t really bother me. Falling bothers me. And I already knew I could fall.
One time in Hugesville. I climbed to the can, and then the can shot off into the sky. I was like wut? Then I hit the ground. The other time I was in Prince Frederick. When I cut out I rode a guy down on my gloves. SPLAT.
Once you’re higher than 20:feet it probably doesn’t make much difference. Granted I wasn’t smart, but I did much riskier moves at work. I’m old now, it won’t happen again.
Brad
AT 11:57 PM
“You don’t need to worry about your freaken rain gutters for quite a while.”
…I had recurved gutters put on my first house (Brand name LeafGuard here) as soon as I moved in, and did the same here within a month of taking possession.
I haven’t cleaned a gutter in 25 years, and I never will. They work good.
“Native Americans are said not to have vertigo.”
I’m a Native American (in both senses – 1/8 Cherokee AND native to America) – and I experience vertigo. In fact, after falling off the goose’s house (about 8′) I just don’t like going up ladders!
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
OSHA! Where’s your steel toed boots? WHERE”S YOUR SAFETY HARNESS? You fall and die, or worse, kill somebody by falling on him, our insurance company will have a heart attack!
I’ve done some things in my youth, and no, I’m not going to tell you, but THAT?
The closest thing to that was when I climbed to the tops of some trees overhanging a sand dune and another time my brother and I ran back and forth on the roof ridge of our house. Mom never knew or else we would have be killed by her for scaring her to death.
“I’ve done some things in my youth, and no, I’m not going to tell you,”
Looked over your records and you’re good to go. That dime in extra change you got when you were 8 was forgiven a long time ago.
Keep up the good work. You’re making a good difference.