This is my job!!
28 March 2006, 07:42 PM
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Originally Posted by paulg1979
Filming would be better. Probably earn yourself a £250 on you've been framed.
I'll bring a hip flask, just in case the performers need a little extra pazazz.
28 March 2006, 10:03 PM
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fair play to you lads. Untold bottle.
i worked in cradles, painting years ago 11 floors plus, and that was scary enough.
F**k sitting in a harness, at least therewas a wooden floor under me.
same principal though i suppose?
i worked in cradles, painting years ago 11 floors plus, and that was scary enough.
F**k sitting in a harness, at least therewas a wooden floor under me.
same principal though i suppose?
29 March 2006, 10:18 AM
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Originally Posted by Karl 227
So, the rope snaps and you plumet to earth as your life flashes before you, the plastic hats are for what, exactly? 
I thought that. You can imagine the risk assessment: "what do you reckon Burt, additional abseiling lessons and extra knot craft?" Burt: "better recommend some helmets too; yellow, to match the marigolds"
29 March 2006, 10:31 AM
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[anorak=on]
paulq1979, what's the procedure, do you fix ropes and then do a x meter wide clean top to bottom, then return to the top, shift ropes over and start again?
Or is there some sort of system which moves the rope anchor point along the side of the building so you can clean the whole length side to side in one go, drop down, do the next floor etc?
Do you use regular climbing harnesses or something with a "seat"?
[anorak=off]
paulq1979, what's the procedure, do you fix ropes and then do a x meter wide clean top to bottom, then return to the top, shift ropes over and start again?
Or is there some sort of system which moves the rope anchor point along the side of the building so you can clean the whole length side to side in one go, drop down, do the next floor etc?
Do you use regular climbing harnesses or something with a "seat"?
[anorak=off]
29 March 2006, 10:34 AM
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I used to be in a coastguard cliff rescue team and going up and down cliffs in a harness was quite good fun 
Just as long as it wasn't a loose crumbly cliff. That's when you were glad of the hard hat
I then progressed to being a lifeboatman. Getting winched down from a Coastguard Sikorsky S61 chopper to an Arun class lifeboat which was rising and falling 15 feet in an Atlantic swell was.............interesting
Just as long as it wasn't a loose crumbly cliff. That's when you were glad of the hard hat I then progressed to being a lifeboatman. Getting winched down from a Coastguard Sikorsky S61 chopper to an Arun class lifeboat which was rising and falling 15 feet in an Atlantic swell was.............interesting
29 March 2006, 11:08 AM
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Originally Posted by JTaylor
I thought that. You can imagine the risk assessment: "what do you reckon Burt, additional abseiling lessons and extra knot craft?" Burt: "better recommend some helmets too; yellow, to match the marigolds"
29 March 2006, 11:18 AM
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300 quid a day, not bad, our Oracle contractors get 350, must make a point of introducing new working practises that involve extreme danger to get the moneys worth out of the buggers !
29 March 2006, 12:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Brit_in_Japan
[anorak=on]
paulq1979, what's the procedure, do you fix ropes and then do a x meter wide clean top to bottom, then return to the top, shift ropes over and start again?
Or is there some sort of system which moves the rope anchor point along the side of the building so you can clean the whole length side to side in one go, drop down, do the next floor etc?
Do you use regular climbing harnesses or something with a "seat"?
[anorak=off]
paulq1979, what's the procedure, do you fix ropes and then do a x meter wide clean top to bottom, then return to the top, shift ropes over and start again?
Or is there some sort of system which moves the rope anchor point along the side of the building so you can clean the whole length side to side in one go, drop down, do the next floor etc?
Do you use regular climbing harnesses or something with a "seat"?
[anorak=off]
29 March 2006, 01:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Karl 227
You trust your life to a plant pot?
No. Thats concrete under that plus the other two ropes. Thats 3 points all in all. Every one of them would have to go before you were heading for ground!!
29 March 2006, 01:22 PM
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i'd quite like to do this!
good money, better than a boring office job!
in reality, once you get above about 50 feet its irrelevant what hieght it is really, as if you fall your gonna die!
good money, better than a boring office job!
in reality, once you get above about 50 feet its irrelevant what hieght it is really, as if you fall your gonna die!
29 March 2006, 01:25 PM
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Respect to the original poster and his ***** of steel 
. I did a 70m bungy jump once from a crane over water and almost soiled my keks. 
BTW I used to work in the UBS building at 100 Liverpool Street - is that the one you are working on?
Suresh
. I did a 70m bungy jump once from a crane over water and almost soiled my keks. BTW I used to work in the UBS building at 100 Liverpool Street - is that the one you are working on?
Suresh
29 March 2006, 01:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Suresh
Respect to the original poster and his ***** of steel . I did a 70m bungy jump once from a crane over water and almost soiled my keks.
BTW I used to work in the UBS building at 100 Liverpool Street - is that the one you are working on?
Suresh
. I did a 70m bungy jump once from a crane over water and almost soiled my keks. BTW I used to work in the UBS building at 100 Liverpool Street - is that the one you are working on?
Suresh
No its not the UBS. This building is actually in old broad st.