First time I saw the ad I assumed it was CGI....seems I was wrong.
https://youtu.be/1m5lPITfMQc
Balls of steel...well.
First time I saw the ad I assumed it was CGI....seems I was wrong.
https://youtu.be/1m5lPITfMQc
Balls of steel...well.
I felt squeeze'y just watching the video, wow.
I’d have to have a gun to my head to do that, even then I’d just say pull the trigger, fair play to that person…
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Yep, I assumed it was CGI. How does she manage to look so nonchalant about it?
Yet another thing I wish I hadn't been tempted to watch. Just imagine all those grimy builders having their BigMacs delivered by a MacDrone all the way up there.
Not a chance in hell!! I was sure I was going to fall off the Empire State Building.
Although I spent a lot of my working life atop turntable ladders and hydraulic platforms without batting an eyelid that made my toes tingle somewhat.
F.T.F.A.
That's just awesome on so many levels
Don't just do something, sit there. - TNH
I guess that once you're about what, 30 feet high, you're going to die, so it doesn't matter how high you are. At least, that what I'm telling myself.
I bet that wouldn't have impressed Fred Dibnah that much.
Originally Posted by hogthrob
Fred would have climbed up the outside and scaffolded the top section.
All whilst smoking a Park Drive.
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"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."
'Populism, the last refuge of a Tory scoundrel'.
Its not the fall that kills you, it’s the abrupt stop at the end.
Falling from that height would give you a lot of time to worry about the abrupt stop that’s coming.
I suppose you had a high chance of suffering a heart attack while you are falling? The negative acceleration is not something to look forward to for the worrying mind.Its not the fall that kills you, it’s the abrupt stop at the end.
Falling from that height would give you a lot of time to worry about the abrupt stop that’s coming
Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.
Good grief - you are Tim Vine and I claim my £5!
Thank you, I'm here all week.
Don't just do something, sit there. - TNH
Couldn’t do that however much money you offered me.
Uhhh. Ahhh. No thanks.
I doff my hat, what a brave gal.
Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.
Wow, I also assumed it was cgi!
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I wouldn't have done that in those heels. They're lethal!
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Ignorance breeds Fear. Fear breeds Hatred. Hatred breeds Ignorance. Break the chain.
I’d love to get up there. What a great tale to be able to tell, and imagine the photos you could get.
Andy
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I have actually come out in a cold sweat watching that!
All things create a gravity around them and a building that size will create a reasonable one at that so you are likely to collide with it, at least once on the way down.
Nicole Smith-Ludvik, she's a skydiver
Funny how different things bother different people. I'd do that any day of the week over clambering into a confined space. Wouldn't even need to think about it.
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Would be surprised if the gravity exerted by the building was sufficient to have a significant influence on a body of substantial mass and momentum. But I'm not a physicist and have no idea how to do the maths. I will say though that I'd be surprised to feel a gravitational force from a large building from standing next to it at the base.
The forces are indeed very small but can be enough to draw an object in over the length of the building.
Now this is scarey...
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=417211795577530
Stumbled on this one night and got caught in a loop. Didn't get to bed until 3am. What a guy.
Didn’t Tom Cruise do something similar?
Yes in his bare feet
https://youtu.be/z8ietmnBmAQ
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Fred's exploits were never less than toe tingling . . .
Whilst I think it’s impressive, if you’re not afraid of heights I guess it’s just another day in the office. As a skydiver she must fall into that category - so not surprised she looks so relaxed, probably more focussed on the pay cheque and what she’s having for lunch!
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Yea I worked at height for many years, its fairly easy to get conditioned to it as a normality. Obviously this is extreme but as others have said once your above 60 feet the outcome is pretty much fateful. The only time I fell (from an untied ladder) in 25 years was from 15 feet broke my leg and arm!
The scariest thing I saw were two drunk Irish labourers throwing themselves into the safety nets on Top of the Post Office Tower, that was in the early 80's H&S was not so big in those day's, I rarely remember wearing a harness?
As an apprentice I was asked by my supervisor to walk out on an 8" steel and clip on a wheel and fall. That was at 80ft on Barking Power Station. I declined, a steeple jack did it for £10, no harness.
Watch the clips of Fred Dibnah on U Tube they are awesome but it was just a days work to Steeple Jacks.
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It doesn't work like that - at least not for me. I'm a paraglider pilot, been flying for 20 years. For anyone who thinks paragliding is just jumping off a hill and floating to the bottom, the highest I've ever managed to get to is 10,000ft. I was also an active caver, and have dangled on a single rope 80 odd meters above a cave floor many times. But I hate ladders & I really dislike having to get up on the roof of a house. I don't think I could ever bungy jump.
I think I would have done what that girl did, because it's a once in a life time opportunity, but I would not have been looking quite so calm.
What a brave gal to look so serene, stuck up there, knowing that the whole of Dubai can see up her skirt!
Same here - 10,000` but i got there with a motor on my back:
What a lot of people don`t understand is that higher altitudes are safer - gives you more time to throw your reserve if it all goes wrong!
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I have jumped off the top of the Burj Khalifa. We went to Dubai for a holiday, had to visit the Burj which is well worth seeing.
On the 125th Floor they have a VR game in which you climb up the outside of the Burj on a mission of some sort which culminates in you parachuting off the top.
By the time I got to the ‘top’ I was so freaked out I was saying to anyone who would listen ‘I’m not jumping! I’m not jumping!’. The family have never let me forget it.
Kudos to the whole team.
Health and safety PPE at 60 feet in the 1980’s!
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The air hostess on the top of the tower may have been brave, but posting the above image with that hairstyle tops it for me.
Health and safety PPE at 60 feet in the 1980’s!
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You have balls of steel Wildheart!
I say that as someone who sported a similar mullet at the time but would NEVER release that image for public view.... !
God that makes me feel so queasy
Who? Clive?
'Against stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain' - Schiller.
Either or!Who? Clive?
I visited the Shard the other week and absolutely zero problems with height etc. However, the moment I have to climb a ladder and have a chance of falling, forget it. I cannot do it. This, is impossible.
Blimey .. that’s some gutsy trolley dolly
Brave girl, I nearly fell off the couch watching it.
For some reason I can't post a link to a URL so you'll have to search for it.
I wonder if the BBC offered life insurance back in the 70's, clearly their EHS team were having a day off when it was filmed
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Yes, that was incredible. Don't think Health and Safety had been invented in the 1970's.For some reason I can't post a link to a URL so you'll have to search for it.
I wonder if the BBC offered life insurance back in the 70's, clearly their EHS team were having a day off when it was filmed
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Can imagine Noakes and Dibnah would have done the Dubai thing without thinking about it. Fred would have probably lit a fag up there by striking a match on the side of the tower.
Fred Dibnah what an absolute legend!! I’m pretty sure he’s climbing in hobnail boots as well, can you imagine how slippery those ladder treads would have been….
And that John Noakes clip is a painful watch as well, he’s climbing in flares and a pair of Clarkes best, fair play
I can't begin to imagine the mental strength or capability needed to conquer such heights. I know I don't have it!
Aye, Fred was a one-off. The 'old school' manual work he performed while hanging off the side of towers was mind boggling to watch.
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