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This video fills me with anxiety

Monday, 14 March 2022, 10:06 BFH Uncategorized 40

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  5. Meh. I was a skinny little shit when I was younger, so I got to crawl into upside-down crumpled cars to be bled and vomited on by patients while OTHER guys got to do the FUN stuff outside, and also I got to snake through attics and crawl spaces so low that I’d have to take my SCBA tank off and push it in front of me.

    THIS guy has it easy.

    At least HIS shit isn’t filled with smoke and on fire…

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  9. Sapper Chris
    MARCH 14, 2022 AT 10:24 AM
    “Useful skill especially if you are trying to hide. No one is coming to get you in there.”

    …which is why they just collapse or plug the entrance behind you.

    …enjoy your entombment…

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  10. Sapper Chris
    MARCH 14, 2022 AT 10:24 AM
    “Useful skill especially if you are trying to hide. No one is coming to get you in there.”

    …also, seems like given your former occupation as stated by your handle, you’d know better than most what chucking an explosive in behind a guy in a situation like this is likely to do…

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  14. “Useful skill especially if you are trying to hide. No one is coming to get you in there.”

    Like the spelunker John Jones (on YT) and how he got stuck, upside down, in a cave and died. Trapped for hours and the rescue crew could not get him out…I think the angle of his body was the problem, as they would need to break his legs to get him through the tiny passage way. His body is still inside the cave.

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  22. I AM TOSK
    MARCH 14, 2022 AT 11:22 AM
    “I would not fit.”

    …if you got stuck halfway in and couldn’t get food or water as a result, you’d be able to fit.

    Eventually…

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  26. There is an old abandoned gold mine near where I grew up at Great Falls Maryland. The entrance had been closed by the US Park Service but someone had pried it open in the late 70s. When in high school a group of us decided to go in to see what was inside. It had a horizontal shaft that went about 20 yards into the hill and we found a small, narrow passage into a large room at the end (just like the one in the video). We all squeezed through the passage and hung around in the room for a while until we realized our flash lights wouldn’t last much longer. As we squeezed our way back out we realized if one of us had gotten stuck the rest would have died inside too, since NOBODY knew where we were.
    It still makes me cringe to this day (40+ years later).

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  28. I’m claustrophobic and I don’t like being trapped down. You should see what they do to your ass when they give you Radiation in the neck. Someone has a very cruel sense of humor.

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  30. Nope, me either.

    I had an MRI three weeks ago. My first one. Kept hearing horror stories, but figured I could do it.

    Turned out, I was right. Piece of cake. I almost laughed once when the machine was making funny noises. You hear the machines in the movies and it’s just a thump, thump, thump. Not at all. The change in speed, tone and consistency was so different from what I expected, that I almost laughed. Made myself not laugh because I didn’t want the results to be all blurry and have to do it over!

    Still, I wouldn’t do this. An MRI means someone will release you when done. In a cave, your bones might be found eons later, if at all.

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  32. A little tremblor or earthquake in the area and you either get squashed like a bug or get out in a newly opened escape route.

    I have claustrophobia and I don’t mean I fear Santa Claus. I also have a phobia about sticky stuff on my face, hands, or anywhere else.

    My worst fear would be stuck in a tight place in a cave and then have sticky stuff like honey or maple syrup poured over me. Thinking about that really gives me the willies.

  33. @SNS- yeah I know what a blast in a space like that will do, key to hiding is to not let your pursuers know where to look. Took lessons from the ‘How not to be aren’t tactical series from Monty Python. I’m fantastic at hide and seek.

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  34. I crawl under houses to do some of my work.

    Sometimes it’s a big NOPE for this very reason.

    Sometimes I think Dallas house builders back in the 50s had to be really small guys. Crawl spaces were built tight and were serviceable by slim or small men, but then future upgrades put AC ducts under the houses and it becomes impossible to do much in many of them.

    The shower head in my current home was chest level for me until I re-did my bathroom. It was fine for the wife and kids. So I’m thinking the builders probably averaged about 5′ 7″.

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  35. Climbing telephone poles on hooks always scared the hell out of me. Every time. It was never easy for me. I had to think about every movement I made (which made me a decent teacher when my Brother was having serious problems in Plant School).

    But crawl spaces and under decks was the kind of shit that triggered panic. I had a NID that some mofo built a deck over. I had just enough room to crawl (squish?)to it if I kept my head sideways. It was terrifying, and it took the better part of an hour because my brain kept vapor-locking, and it took every bit of my — whatever-you-call-it — to keep from going nuts.

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  37. Anthony said I made it look easy.

    “What’s your strike foot from standing? (like asking a mofo what eye is dominant)”

    “Right.”

    “Good. I’m right foot, too, but left handed and all that shit with the belt will be reversed.”

    “Ok”

    “Stand with your hands shoulder high on the pole. Raise your right hand 12 inches. Raise your right gaff 12 inches, toes up. Strike the pole. Raise your left hand 12 inches and grasp the pole. Stand up on your right gaff. Let your left gaff trail on the pole as you stand, leg extended. All your weight is on your right side. Bounce if you have to. Strike the pole with the left gaff…

    on and on…

    and then getting down. that’s all falling.

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  38. Erik the ne’er-do-well unmasked scumbag
    MARCH 14, 2022 AT 9:33 PM
    “Climbing telephone poles on hooks always scared the hell out of me. ”

    …didn’t you wear a safety belt/strap of some kind? I’ve seen linemen here do that…

  39. We wore “Positioning Straps”. They were not fall arrest. The positioning strap stayed hanging under us until we were where we did the work.

    The strap on our belt was the “third point of contact” when we needed both hands.

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  40. We ascend with no fall arrest, and we descend without fall arrest.

    We only deploy the strap where we work.

    Fall arrest is when you say, “FUCK!”.

    I’m not complaining. We did the best we could.

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