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[dr_phil_physics]

Climbing The Ziggurat or There Is Video Of Everything

This via The Register in the U.K..

Those of who you who get a bit wobbly at the top of a stepladder are strongly advised to look away now, because here's a helmetcam vid of just how you get to work when your office is at the top of a 1,768ft TV mast:

What I find amazing is that every time you leave one section, the hand- and footholds become less and less substantial looking.

Then you have to do the work.

Then you have to climb down.

(grin)

Dr. Phil

Comments

[aloysius7.livejournal.com]

Not. A. Prayer. I do NOT like heights (although it doesn't bother me to fly, even in small planes.)

[dr-phil-physics.livejournal.com]

Yeah, not going to be a job that I'm qualified for. (Thank goodness!)

Still, it's amazing. Saw a piece on History or Nat Geo or something about how they haul a crane up to the top in order to add or change out major pieces. Adds all sorts of lateral stresses and it could snap the top off and they'd all fall. Lovely. "And what did you do at work today?" "Oh I screwed up the lift so when the wind blew I killed five of my co-workers. But we've got a new team coming in on Monday."

Dr. Phil