Re: [TowerTalk] And we talk about free climbing !

[David Gilbert <xdavid@cis-broadband.com>]

Here's the link you get when you Google "skyscraper workers images"

http://tinyurl.com/k33zfml

Dave   AB7E
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On 11/22/2014 6:40 PM, Roger (K8RI) on TT wrote:
> It might have been a couple years back, but there were a series of 
> free climbing photos posted on here.  I remember on was 3 or 4 young 
> guys...maybe early 20s and I'd guess it was in the UK.  They had 
> jackets/blazers and sweaters under them. They were on a power line 
> under construction.  One had climbed to the bottom of an insulator 
> which was as tall or taller than he was.  The photo also showed a 
> rural, hilly area.  Those towers were big!
> It was a whole series, including the Empire State Bldg, Golden Gate 
> bridge, the power line, and others IIRC.
> Some of them would have been a rather high pucker factor even with 
> today's climbing gear.  These guys didn't even have a rope.  Just 
> proof, that Darwin's theory also includes the lucky!<:-))
> Wish I could find them.  I'd save them this time!
>
> 73
>
> Roger (K8RI)
>
>
>
> On 11/22/2014 6:58 PM, Doug Renwick wrote:
> > Careful now; you will get the sidewalk supervisors telling us how to 
> > do our
> > job.
> >
> > I have got to post that picture on my shack wall.  Those fellows are 
> > braver
> > than me.
> >
> >
> > Doug
> >
> >
> >    _____
> >
> >
> > There is a famous shot of Iron works   abreast  eating lunch, not
> > straddled but  sitting sideways like on a bench,   atop the Empire state
> > Building
> > iron grid works
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/11/movies/lunch-atop-a-skyscraper-uncovered.h
> > tml?pagewanted=all
> > <http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/11/movies/lunch-atop-a-skyscraper-uncovered. 
> >
> > html?pagewanted=all&_r=0> &_r=0
> >   I assume smoking  or 2nd hand smoke was of much concern !
> >     Wayne W3EA
> >
> >
> >
> > > From: ve5ra@sasktel.net
> > > To: w3ea@hotmail.com; towertalk@contesting.com; ww3s@zoominternet.net
> > > Subject: RE: [TowerTalk] And we talk about free climbing !
> > > Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 16:35:02 -0600
> > >
> > > In those days men were men!
> > >
> > > Doug
> > >
> > > I wasn't born in Saskatchewan, but I got here as soon as I could.
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > >
> > > I assume this is B- 4 OSHA :)
> > http://www.ebay.com/itm/1955-Press-Photo-Two-Men-Install-High-Up-antennas-on 
> >
> > -Terminal-Tower-in-Cleveland-/351226615570?pt=Art_Photo_Images&hash=item51c6 
> >
> > > bcd712
> >
> >
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