This is my job!!
30 March 2006, 12:19 PM
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Originally Posted by paulr
Paul,how did you get into it?
Sorry for being nosey,its just a fascinating job.
Sorry for being nosey,its just a fascinating job.
30 March 2006, 05:09 PM
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Mad man comes to mind 
1 thing why the hard hat , wouldnt help ya much if anything happend
(joke m8 & i hope you enjoy it for many years)
Got to say buddy if it was me id have to use a very very very long stick with a sponge on the end
1 thing why the hard hat , wouldnt help ya much if anything happend
(joke m8 & i hope you enjoy it for many years)
Got to say buddy if it was me id have to use a very very very long stick with a sponge on the end
31 March 2006, 03:46 PM
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Hey, you want a word with my mate Andy at Giraffe Access, dangle from a nice basket so you can keep more cold beers in, for when it gets warmer
I get tremours watching the "Vertical Technology" lads hanging off our nuclear reactor buildings in winter..... crazy!
I get tremours watching the "Vertical Technology" lads hanging off our nuclear reactor buildings in winter..... crazy!
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31 March 2006, 04:22 PM
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Originally Posted by paulg1979
I would be interested but is it a wind up or serious. What do you for a living to be able to organise a documantary and for which channel?
31 March 2006, 11:23 PM
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Originally Posted by paulg1979
Its all price work. But we can earn between £250 and £300 a day. It is all in the City of London so there is lots of money to be earned.
I own a company that specialises in abseil work. The contracts I go for are slightly more involved than cleaning the glass. Hence I know what you guys earn (Around the £80-£120 per day mark ) I also test and inspect the equipment that you hang off. (Or is that how you make the cash by forgetting about LOLER regs?) Can you tell me who you work for? I believe you might be inbreach of a couple of basic HSE and IRATA laws looking at those pics, which I've saved 
Anyway, good luck looking for your film star wages. If you need a reality check, let me know. I've got a bit of work on. I need a numpty to abseil down my toilet, that curry last night has caused havoc with the drains
31 March 2006, 11:36 PM
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That pic will kill your reputation (Not the bull****er one) for ever! What a prized tw@t! How did you get authorisation to rig off of that? What test did you perform before hand to say it would hold? Do you have any thoughts for the people you might land on if that goes wrong???????
Total cu*t. You must be one of those Easten europeans trying to kill our game.
31 March 2006, 11:48 PM
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Originally Posted by ben44
. Hence I know what you guys earn (Around the £80-£120 per day mark
01 April 2006, 12:18 AM
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Originally Posted by slickrick
nothing,but why the nasty post ?.wat does it matter what the guy earns?
***** of steel in my eyes
***** of steel in my eyes
I'm looking forward to the guys justification of his £300 day statement. That will get printed up and stuck on the wall
01 April 2006, 01:12 PM
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Originally Posted by ben44
rigs off plastic
where has he rigged off plastic in that pic?
the left rope is tied to the lower handrail, the right is round a concrete upstand on some kind of AC vent, and the centre ( what looks like a 3rd safety tie) is round another concrete upstand. Upstands are usually 150-200mm above the finished roof level of cast concrete ( err...solid! ), and I doubt the handrail post would be going anywhere.
01 April 2006, 01:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Chip Sengravy
where has he rigged off plastic in that pic?
the left rope is tied to the lower handrail, the right is round a concrete upstand on some kind of AC vent, and the centre ( what looks like a 3rd safety tie) is round another concrete upstand. Upstands are usually 150-200mm above the finished roof level of cast concrete ( err...solid! ), and I doubt the handrail post would be going anywhere.
the left rope is tied to the lower handrail, the right is round a concrete upstand on some kind of AC vent, and the centre ( what looks like a 3rd safety tie) is round another concrete upstand. Upstands are usually 150-200mm above the finished roof level of cast concrete ( err...solid! ), and I doubt the handrail post would be going anywhere.
You know alot about rope access and the lifting regs then? Obviously not.
01 April 2006, 01:54 PM
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whats that got to do with the price of fish, Mr Rolleyes?
and as it happens, I know **** all about rope access, but in my last job I would regularly bank and signal cranes up to 250T, and deal with the appropriate paperwork. I didn't have the formal AP training, but 15yrs of waving my arms about to crane drivers made me competant in my book
so, where has he rigged off plastic?
And I wasn't aware LOLER dealt with ropes?
and as it happens, I know **** all about rope access, but in my last job I would regularly bank and signal cranes up to 250T, and deal with the appropriate paperwork. I didn't have the formal AP training, but 15yrs of waving my arms about to crane drivers made me competant in my book
so, where has he rigged off plastic?
And I wasn't aware LOLER dealt with ropes?
01 April 2006, 06:14 PM
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LOLER definately deals with ropes and all associated rigging equipment. At least it does for all my tree surgery climbing equipment.
FWIW I don't see a problem with the tie ins either and that is from 15+ years of climbing, absailing and playing on disussed rail bridges etc.
Kev
FWIW I don't see a problem with the tie ins either and that is from 15+ years of climbing, absailing and playing on disussed rail bridges etc.
Kev
01 April 2006, 09:35 PM
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Chip, Imagine your misses walking under this uncordoned area and he drops a bucket. She wont be home that night for sure. But he will look good to the birds he was trying to impress in the office.
These ***** are killing our game. The reputation they bring along makes people scared of using us.
As Kev says, there might not be a problem with the handrail etc that he rigged off in the other pic, but I for one know that these old buildings do have major faults with handrails. Would they pass a 6kn test? Doubt it. Would a dynamic load on their safety line not slip accross the 75mm concrete build up and rip the plastic top off?
If one of these donuts hurts a member of your family, think about your post....
01 April 2006, 10:30 PM
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DOnt worry ..
Tony will have taxative legislation for this type of work ready to go!!
the wicked witch is all set to take on new clients...
and the H&S crew, are ready with 60 blank notepads to cover every safty thing they can think of.
if they want to do it, let them... if you want to bitch , join the police srvice and nick them
mart
Tony will have taxative legislation for this type of work ready to go!!
the wicked witch is all set to take on new clients...
and the H&S crew, are ready with 60 blank notepads to cover every safty thing they can think of.
if they want to do it, let them... if you want to bitch , join the police srvice and nick them
mart
03 April 2006, 08:49 PM
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Originally Posted by paulg1979
Just thought I'd share a pic of my mate at work. We're window cleaners but do it stylish way!!
hmmmm google earth,
i hope your trainers are clean