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You would have definitely passed 'Stenigot Tower Course'. You weren't 'jarking' IRA thoroughfares and exit/entry points with high-placement gear for JCU NI were you? It takes a lot of bottle even with a lanyard and harness.
You would have definitely passed 'Stenigot Tower Course'. You weren't 'jarking' IRA thoroughfares and exit/entry points with high-placement gear for JCU NI were you? It takes a lot of bottle even with a lanyard and harness.
Respect to all that have worked at height.
My father in law worked for BT, he worked at incredibly silly heights.
Tells an hilarious story of him working in Townhill and was on a mast you had to have special training to work on. Come the end of the day and it’s getting dark he gets part way down and realises some locals have nicked his lower ladders. It took BT two hours to get new specialist ladders to him so he sat up top and had his sandwiches lit up like a beacon.
You have to be fearless working anywhere above five feet for me.
A great believer in taking anything you like to wherever you want to.
My father in law worked for BT, he worked at incredibly silly heights.
Tells an hilarious story of him working in Townhill and was on a mast you had to have special training to work on. Come the end of the day and it’s getting dark he gets part way down and realises some locals have nicked his lower ladders. It took BT two hours to get new specialist ladders to him so he sat up top and had his sandwiches lit up like a beacon.
You have to be fearless working anywhere above five feet for me.
A particular area of Blaenymaes had to have a heavy duty tubular steel barrier placed in 4 foot deep all around its green section to prevent joy riders from setting stolen cars on fire upon it, the guys spent more time watching their gear on their truck than doing the actual job.
You would have definitely passed 'Stenigot Tower Course'. You weren't 'jarking' IRA thoroughfares and exit/entry points with high-placement gear for JCU NI were you? It takes a lot of bottle even with a lanyard and harness.
Respect to all that have worked at height.
I couldn't possibly say . when I started on the job it was as it showed in the beginning of the Guy Martin film clip. we free climbed but with belts to carry a couple of podger spanners and pliers , as the working height regs came into force we then transferred to wearing full body harness and fall arrest equipment , the tower painters are something else , the smell of thinners and vaseline still haunts me
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when I started on the job it was as it showed in the beginning of the Guy Martin film clip. we free climbed but with belts to carry a couple of podger spanners and pliers , as the working height regs came into force we then transferred to wearing full body harness and fall arrest equipment , the tower painters are something else , the smell of thinners and vaseline still haunts me 