How are you with heights? Emirates - Page 3

VINMAN · 08-10-2021, 06:51 AM

masraum · 08-10-2021, 06:55 AM

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Originally Posted by speeder

How did she get up there?

Probably via the same method as anyone that has to perform maintenance. My guess is that there's a "ladder" built into the tower.

VINMAN · 08-10-2021, 07:04 AM

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Originally Posted by masraum

Probably via the same method as anyone that has to perform maintenance. My guess is that there's a "ladder" built into the tower.

Yep, there are internal ladders in the tube.

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matthewb0051 · matthewb0051's Garage

Jeez

I got a queasy feeling and sweats just watching the behind scenes video on pg 2. Impressive commercial but hard pass.

pavulon · 08-10-2021, 08:15 AM

They went through a lot of trouble to make it look like CGI.

vash · vash's Garage

no doubt i could stand there. maybe not in those shoes.

i would drop a sign for sure.

for me it is the mount and dismount. those moves i would piss myself. but just standing there, i'm good.

matthewb0051 · matthewb0051's Garage

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Originally Posted by vash

for me it is the mount and dismount. those moves i would piss myself. but just standing there, i'm good.

Exactly, just like the transition from the roof to a ladder. Don't mind being on the roof, but on and off ladder I loath.

Its amazing how Army basic training gets a lot of that fear out. They have several obstacles on the course that break you out of the height fear issues. But as I've gotten older and not so bullet proof anymore, my sense of self preservation has kicked in and some of that fear has returned.

TimT · 08-10-2021, 12:31 PM

Me many moons ago at my old office..

Note the safety belt (not harness) really wasn't good for anything, because if you did happen to fall, chances are you would slip out of the belt...

Top of that bridge is 330'? I'm about 320 feet up

stevej37 · 08-10-2021, 12:34 PM

That is a great pic!
Brooklyn bridge behind you?
Which bridge are you on?

Bill Douglas · 08-10-2021, 02:00 PM

Geeze Tim. You're my hero climbing up there!

In fact you are my double hero. Marrying that beautiful woman

Zeke · 08-10-2021, 03:27 PM

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Originally Posted by ZOO

The article says she's a sky-diver. She must have had really good aim

I was hopping she was wearing her base jumping chute and jumped.

masraum · 08-10-2021, 03:37 PM

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Originally Posted by sc_rufctr

It's as real as it could be in our modern world.

That's awesome.

I think I'd do it. I've jumped out of a plane. I climb stuff and will get on top of things.

Captain Ahab Jr · Captain Ahab Jr's Garage

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Originally Posted by Geronimo '74

I am not afraid of heights at all.
Depths are another matter entirely though…

I'm the opposite....

I'm far more relaxed holding my breath under water looking up than looking down standing on something tall while breathing fresh air

TimT · 08-10-2021, 05:24 PM

I'm near the top of the Brooklyn Tower of the Manhattan Bridge, I've forgotten the exact nomenclature layout and orientation of the cables but I'm on the south most outer cable, fall to the outside, its 330' feet until you hit the water.. fall to the inside splat on the roadway 150 feet below...

Before those nitwits knocked those two buildings down.. we used to sometimes grab a BEC sandy, or bagel and a thermos of coffee and trot up to the top, and have a nice breakfast watching the sun come up over NYC...

With the exception of working in the sandbox for about 5 years, my whole career has been on the big suspension bridges in the northeast US....

All the major bridges around NYC, Philly, the few over the upper Hudson..

I guess it was a small niche career..... I'm hanging up my hardhat soon....

flatbutt · 08-10-2021, 05:37 PM

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Originally Posted by masraum

Probably via the same method as anyone that has to perform maintenance. My guess is that there's a "ladder" built into the tower.

I don't see a ladder that gets her on to the top of the platform.

VINMAN · 08-10-2021, 05:44 PM

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Originally Posted by flatbutt

I don't see a ladder that gets her on to the top of the platform.

Its on the interior of the spire. ( the tube she's standing on..)

masraum · 08-10-2021, 06:57 PM

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Originally Posted by TimT

I'm near the top of the Brooklyn Tower of the Manhattan Bridge, I've forgotten the exact nomenclature layout and orientation of the cables but I'm on the south most outer cable, fall to the outside, its 330' feet until you hit the water.. fall to the inside splat on the roadway 150 feet below...

Before those nitwits knocked those two buildings down.. we used to sometimes grab a BEC sandy, or bagel and a thermos of coffee and trot up to the top, and have a nice breakfast watching the sun come up over NYC...

With the exception of working in the sandbox for about 5 years, my whole career has been on the big suspension bridges in the northeast US....

All the major bridges around NYC, Philly, the few over the upper Hudson..

I guess it was a small niche career..... I'm hanging up my hardhat soon....

Very cool and fascinating! Thanks for sharing.

masraum · 08-10-2021, 06:59 PM

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Originally Posted by flatbutt

I don't see a ladder that gets her on to the top of the platform.

Nah, she just hugs it and shimmies up the outside.

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Originally Posted by VINMAN

Its on the interior of the spire. ( the tube she's standing on..)

Dude, sssssshhhhh.

It's crazy in the behind the scenes video. It said that they had to climb once they got to "level 160" and it took them an hour.

VINMAN · 07:20 PM

One thing I noticed, ( with me at least...) the higher up I go , the less sense of height there is. If that makes sense.. I'm no more uncomfortable at 400ft, than I am at 40 ft. In fact a little more at ease. Maybe because the ground is father away.

I did a rappel a few years back off the roof of this 34 story building in Jersey city. Had no problem going over the edge. On the other hand I hate stepping on and off off a ladder from a 2 story roof.

We regularly practice our rope rescue stuff In the old Hindenburg hanger here. 225ft from the inside floor, to the top catwalk. Only un-nerving part is now and then you have to bang on the boards in front of you to make sure you foot don't go through it.

Here I am doing some transverse highline and basket work off the roof line. Love it!

masraum · 08-10-2021, 07:46 PM

Very cool Vinny!

There was the opportunity to rappel down a building in downtown Houston for charity many years ago. I didn't find out until I saw people doing it. That would have been cool.

I agree, lower stuff is somehow more real than high stuff. I used to crawl on the roof of our second story house. I was able to go to the top of the fence, then to the garage roof and then to the house roof. I had no problem wandering around up there. The house that I'm in now has a much, MUCH steeper roof. I've been up there once, and it will make your berries tingle (I guess that's my spidey sense). Getting on/off the ladder and just being up there sucks.

But jumping out of an airplane was absolutely no problem. It didn't seem real or scary or anything.

And as a kid, I climbed a lot of trees.