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Campfire Kahuna
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Anyone work up in the sky?
Towers, high work?
I'm nerviest on a short step ladder!
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o
"May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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Campfire Ranger
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My first job other than farm work was for international chimney corp. repairing industrial smoke stacks. Later I worked as a roofer and then climbed poles for Time Warner cable as a systems electronics splicer.
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I climb up-stairs to get to the little lady. That count?
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Campfire Kahuna
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Campfire Kahuna
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Well Tom, if those stairs are 700 feet in the air, with no sides, then that might count.
But then what, after get to the lady?
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o
"May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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i work on wind turbines, they're about three hundred feet tall
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Campfire Kahuna
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Campfire Kahuna
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Older I get the less I like heights.
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An 8 dollar driveway boy living in a T-111 shack
LOL
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Campfire Ranger
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I climb up-stairs to get to the little lady. That count? Reminds me of a joke: Old lady says to her husband, " Lets go up stairs and have some fun". He replies, " Your gonna have to decide which one you want; can't do both"
What fresh Hell is this?
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Campfire Tracker
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Well Tom, if those stairs are 700 feet in the air, with no sides, then that might count.
But then what, after get to the lady? No sir! just to the 2nd floor. Handrails and all. There's treasure waiting there. If she's still awake!
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Yep- I like a good game of "Squirrel". Climb the trunk, lay on the limbs, stuff nuts in a crevice.
I've been known to climb to hunt sheep and goats from time to time. In the mountains, with a rifle, you bozos!
The only true cost of having a dog is its death.
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I have spent 40 hr/wk 105 feet off the floor for the last three weeks. But my 3'x10' platform has a handrail around it, and I am attached to a retractable until secure upon the platform.
Does that count?
People who choose to brew up their own storms bitch loudest about the rain.
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Campfire Outfitter
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Emergency medicine, especially when practiced in remote locations was my vocation. Climbing in the big mountains was my avocation. I was lucky enough to have a career which combined both. Walking a helicopter skid onto a tiny pinnacle is a pretty good rush. Getting high can be a good thing.
mike r
Don't wish it were easier
Wish you were better
Stab them in the taint, you can't put a tourniquet on that.
Craig Douglas ECQC
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i was born and raised 14 miles out of Yosemite park. from the age of 11 to 17 i climbed anything i could. have summited Half dome, and Bivy sacked over night on El Capitan. of all the things i did when i was young that is what i wish i could do again.
the consolidation of the states into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded. Robert E Lee
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
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Campfire Oracle
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Older I get the less I like heights. This
Ecc 10:2
The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but that of a fool to the left.
A Nation which leaves God behind is soon left behind.
"The Lord never asked anyone to be a tax collector, lowyer, or Redskins fan".
I Dindo Nuffin
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Campfire Oracle
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Emergency medicine, especially when practiced in remote locations was my vocation. Climbing in the big mountains was my avocation. I was lucky enough to have a career which combined both. Walking a helicopter skid onto a tiny pinnacle is a pretty good rush. Getting high can be a good thing.
mike r I'd have to be high to try that.
Ecc 10:2
The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but that of a fool to the left.
A Nation which leaves God behind is soon left behind.
"The Lord never asked anyone to be a tax collector, lowyer, or Redskins fan".
I Dindo Nuffin
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None of this height shyt really matters much once you get above 16 feet. When I was climbing poles for the cable company the guy who gave our climbing safety seminars told us that a fall from only 16' will kill you 80% of the time.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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I climbed up and down a dozen grain bins one afternoon last week.
Packin' an extension ladder around, in the snow.... In heavyweight pac boots.
Out of shape!
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Campfire Kahuna
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Campfire Kahuna
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I climbed up and down a dozen grain bins one afternoon last week.
Packin' an extension ladder around, in the snow.... In heavyweight pac boots.
Out of shape! I was painting the top of a steel bin one time and fell off. Then the damn paint can fell off and hit me in the top of the head! It was like some Wile E. Coyote cartoon or the like!
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Campfire Tracker
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Older I get the less I like heights. I thought I was weird for that. I worked on Fire ladder trucks over fires and worked roofs cutting holes in burning buildings. Rappelled a few times on mountain rescues too. Since I retired I don't even want to climb a ladder 3 rungs to hang Christmas lights.
Fight fire, save lives, laugh in the face of danger.
Stupid always finds a way.
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A lifetime ago I erected transmission towers. I still enjoy looking at them. ![[Linked Image]](http://i64.tinypic.com/2afg2n9.jpg)
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I used to free-climb cliffs, back when I was 8'tall and bullet proof. Now I work in 5 point harrness quite a bit. Usually up about 15- 30' but sometimes more than 50'.
As long as you can trust the equipment, it's fine.
An unemployed Jester, is nobody's Fool.
the only real difference between a good tracker and a bad tracker, is observation. all the same data is present for both. The rest, is understanding what you're seeing.
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
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