Tilers have it easy...

[Colour Republic]

:hurray: re- roofed quite a few steeples in my time Rob, height is a concept, falling doesn't kill ya, landing does!, but seriously I think peeps have an unhealthy fear of heights, you put a 12inch plank on the deck and most people will have no fear about walking it's length,......put the same plank 30 foot in the air and most people wouldn't walk it,,, but what's the difference??

confidence! I know what you mean I would run along a single skin dwalf wall but not a parapet!

TBH my fear of height comes and goes, If I haven't been up on a roof for a while it takes me a couple of hours to get my head straight, once the confidence is back, i don't give it a second thought. My stepdad was a roofer so got used to them early on, along with sore shoulders bumping tiles 8 hours a day!

But you still wouldn't get me going up that ladder! not because of the height but because it's about 10 tied together!

 

[Gazzer]

:hurray: re- roofed quite a few steeples in my time Rob, height is a concept, falling doesn't kill ya, landing does!, but seriously I think peeps have an unhealthy fear of heights, you put a 12inch plank on the deck and most people will have no fear about walking it's length,......put the same plank 30 foot in the air and most people wouldn't walk it,,, but what's the difference??

30ft I would say !

 

[doug boardley]

lol Neale, and true, and yes Rob unnecessary risks like that are not acceptable within a work environment, but don't forget that asian countries have built skyscrapers with bamboo lashed together (granted, with a few fatalities)😳

 

[doug boardley]

actually Rob it's really surprising how many people will not stand on the glass block at the top of B'pool tower

 

[Colour Republic]

now this is creative

[video=youtube;oybRYXXqb54]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oybRYXXqb54&feature=player_embedded[/video]

 

[SandyFloor]

That's quite impressive. Like you say, creative.

 

[SandyFloor]

The ladder on the steelwork brought back some memories. I used to work with steel erectors during holidays when I was a teenager and Health & Safety wasn't quite what it is today. You were expected to walk along the beams sometimes 40ft up and the erectors did it very comfortably sometimes half drunk from the night before. I did it sometimes but I was terrified and when I look back it was with good reason. If you didn't do it you were looked at as chicken. I also learned how to shin up a column as ladders were rarely used. Some of these guys would walk a 6" beam 40ft up with an gas bottle over their shoulder, change it on the cutting set and then walk back with the empty one. I was scared just watching them. You only need to fall once...no second chances.

 

[Andy Allen]

health and safety would have a field day with that one.

just think what they would say if you did that on a building site in this country. :yikes:

 

[mikethetile]

ive just had to buy a new long ladder and get my insurance amended for working over 10m height from a ladder, in order to paint two small windows

then I got wet and will have to do it monday

yep tilers aint got to worry about access at height

 

[user123]

Wow ... I enjoyed that... especially the fact that I don't have to do any of it!! Phew!!! I am blessed.... :hurray: