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I sure as fuck am.
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Nah, waterfalls and dams scare the shit out of me.
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Those are high, so you may be coach?
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Those are high, so you may be coach?
No, I was a commercial roofer, then consultant and inspector. Heights never bothered me.
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You would not like being an AT&T Uverse Premises Tech. Little known fact; utility poles sway when your up one.
The gaffs cut into your calves, and you can't wear the proper boots because you go into people's houses and have to present an appropriate image.
So you try to use 30 foot extension ladders whenever you can. But once a week you have to use the gaffs, because of shit like the customer planting a palm tree next to a pole to hide it. Or customers appropriating space on the utility easement to build a pool house and so obstructing the place where you would have to put the ladder.
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That picture gives me the heebee jeebees
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Hate tall buildings and looking down but can sit in a plane thousands of feet in the air and look out. Never understood that, maybe coz it's so high there's no sense of height from the srroundings
I sure as fuck am.
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Hate tall buildings and looking down but can sit in a plane thousands of feet in the air and look out. Never understood that, maybe coz it's so high there's no sense of height from the srroundings
That's a good point, cause I'm the same, I think it's because I feel safe in plane.... and planes don't wreck that often.
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if I go to a city where the buildings are so high around me and look up I get the same sense of unease. Never had an incident to cause it so not sure why I'm affected
That's a good point, cause I'm the same, I think it's because I feel safe in plane.... and planes don't wreck that often.
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Try changing lights on radio towers. Thatll test your fear of heights.
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if I go to a city where the buildings are so high around me and look up I get the same sense of unease. Never had an incident to cause it so not sure why I'm affected
I get the same thing. Can look down off any height but looking up gives me the spins if there are other references to how high I am. Has to do with not being able to see where my feet are planted for me.
I cant stand hanging over balconies and then turning around to look straight up the building with my back to the ground. Shit my pants. Funny how the brain works.
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I'm afraids of weights
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I'm afraid of widths (Steven Wright)...
But really, yeah, not a fan of heights, fast amusement park rides, etc...
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I don't like heights. I feel giddy when I stand near the edge of a tall building/cliff etc.
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i put in ventalation units and chimneys on high rise buildings in new york city on weekends with my buddy,trust me man i never liked heights and still dont but i make 350 dollars cash a day so i deal with it. i just dont look down when im near the ends of the roof
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If I haven't been high for a while I get unaccustomed, but not to the point where I'd say I'm scared. I've done roofing and house building so have been in precarious places.
What I do get is some odd irrational fear of dropping something. I used to worry about dropping my hammer and end up being clumsy with it. At a hotel the other week I was leaning over a balcony using my phone, all of a sudden I'm gripping my phone like a mong. I never just drop my phone while holding it, but all of a sudden I'm worrying. It's like my hands are suddenly filled with sand.
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What I do get is some odd irrational fear of dropping something. I used to worry about dropping my hammer and end up being clumsy with it. At a hotel the other week I was leaning over a balcony using my phone, all of a sudden I'm gripping my phone like a mong. I never just drop my phone while holding it, but all of a sudden I'm worrying. It's like my hands are suddenly filled with sand.
I have this exact same problem too. When I lean over a balcony, browsing through my phone, I start feeling like I will drop my phone and start holding onto it more firmly.
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i remember dropping my pliers once from 17 stories up, i didnt even want to go downstairs cause i was scared to death someone would be seriously hurt or dead when i got there,my buddy got there 20min later and i asked him if anything was going on downstairs and he said no,why? it woulda been fucked up if i hurt some innocent person,i wouldnt felt really bad.that coulda been my son or wife walking down there
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i remember dropping my pliers once from 17 stories up, i didnt even want to go downstairs cause i was scared to death someone would be seriously hurt or dead when i got there,my buddy got there 20min later and i asked him if anything was going on downstairs and he said no,why? it woulda been fucked up if i hurt some innocent person,i wouldnt felt really bad.that coulda been my son or wife walking down there
It would have been fiiiine. Just go grab a slice of pizza.
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safe to say, that would have killed someone from that height!
i remember dropping my pliers once from 17 stories up, i didnt even want to go downstairs cause i was scared to death someone would be seriously hurt or dead when i got there,my buddy got there 20min later and i asked him if anything was going on downstairs and he said no,why? it woulda been fucked up if i hurt some innocent person,i wouldnt felt really bad.that coulda been my son or wife walking down there
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Just a few weeks ago I zipp lined down Legacy Mountain in Tenn. I am afraid of heights but wanted to beat it. It sucked ass. I had my eyes closed or looked up 95% of the time.
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safe to say, that would have killed someone from that height!
thats why i was terrified to go downstairs and see what happened, from then on i was much more careful.i was leaning over the edge of the building trying not to fall off the building and it was raining and my pliers slipped outta my hand. it happens but like u said at that height it could and will hurt/kill someone and i dont want to live with that on my mind
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I'm a mountain/rock climber whos afraid of heights. I can stand on a cliff looking down 1000 feet, but scared shitless of looking down a 10 story window.I guess its man made structures I don't like.
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Accidents happen, at least you're now more careful without anything bad having happened.
thats why i was terrified to go downstairs and see what happened, from then on i was much more careful.i was leaning over the edge of the building trying not to fall off the building and it was raining and my pliers slipped outta my hand. it happens but like u said at that height it could and will hurt/kill someone and i dont want to live with that on my mind
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Everyone scared of height's its a pretty strong instinctual urge.
The element of danger is what makes working at heights interesting.
It's like an adrenaline rush depending on what your use to.
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I can't say I like them, but they don't make me have to change my route to my destinations.
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i remember about 10 yrs ago in manhatten my co-worker lit up a joint when we where up about 17 stories fixing a liner,i remember i got so paranoid i started thinking about the WORLD TRADE CENTER bombing and everytime i heard a plane i started sweating bad,i learned my lesson and never took a hit of a joint again at work. i witnessed to 9/11 bombing live from hoboken where i was working,i was across the river in hoboken that morning and heard a plane hit the tower,i told my buddy and we walked down the block to the port in hoboken and saw the tower smoking from the plane. we said frigg it and said we might as well get breakfast and sit on the benches and than when my buddy was coming back with r egg whites the second plane hit,people knew at that point and alot of people where crying,screaming,yelling ect on the streets.very bad scene that ill remember the rest of my life,we saw the towers fall also and im not gonna lie man i was scared seeing that shit
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Bet it almost felt unreal but obviously something major was going down. Speaking of the height thing there's footage of people jumping from high up those towers (i think to escape fires). Imagine having to choose between burning or jumping.
i remember about 10 yrs ago in manhatten my co-worker lit up a joint when we where up about 17 stories fixing a liner,i remember i got so paranoid i started thinking about the WORLD TRADE CENTER bombing and everytime i heard a plane i started sweating bad,i learned my lesson and never took a hit of a joint again at work. i witnessed to 9/11 bombing live from hoboken where i was working,i was across the river in hoboken that morning and heard a plane hit the tower,i told my buddy and we walked down the block to the port in hoboken and saw the tower smoking from the plane. we said frigg it and said we might as well get breakfast and sit on the benches and than when my buddy was coming back with r egg whites the second plane hit,people knew at that point and alot of people where crying,screaming,yelling ect on the streets.very bad scene that ill remember the rest of my life,we saw the towers fall also and im not gonna lie man i was scared seeing that shit
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I love heights, I made it in the news ::) about 5 month ago ,helping to build the new Viking stadium .
http://www.startribune.com/video/268951381.html
(http://publicradio1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/stadium-watch/files/2014/08/roof-truss.jpg)
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I love heights, I made it in the news ::) about 5 month ago ,helping to build the new Viking stadium .
http://www.startribune.com/video/268951381.html
(http://publicradio1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/stadium-watch/files/2014/08/roof-truss.jpg)
Love???....love???...how about tolerate?
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I can't say I like heights but I do take risks when out taking photos. I saw photos of some guys out on the end of Hanging Rock near Sydney so put that on my Bucket List. I did this in January 2013 and even took the photo
by myself via a Canon wireless remote control. There was no one else around. Talk about crazy. What was I thinking? Out on the end you are 100 or so metres above the canyon below....on three sides! It took a lot of
nerve to climb down past that almost dead gum tree on the end. I sat on that big stone and inched my way along it. I didn't have to change my underwear but it was scary as hell. Then I had to take photos while there.
Finally, exhausted, I had to carry a heavy backpack about 5 miles back to my car and half the distance
was done in the dark. It was the most agonizing thing I have ever done because the backpack straps were cutting into my traps.
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sod being up there, let alone sat near the edge! And is that gap in the cliff i see you have to get over?
I can't say I like heights but I do take risks when out taking photos. I saw photos of some guys out on the end of Hanging Rock near Sydney so put that on my Bucket List. I did this in January 2013 and even took the photo
by myself via a Canon wireless remote control. There was no one else around. Talk about crazy. What was I thinking? Out on the end you are 100 or so metres above the canyon below....on three sides! It took a lot of
nerve to climb down past that almost dead gum tree on the end. I sat on that big stone and inched my way along it. I didn't have to change my underwear but it was scary as hell. Then I had to take photos while there.
Finally, exhausted, I had to carry a heavy backpack about 5 miles back to my car and half the distance
was done in the dark. It was the most agonizing thing I have ever done because the backpack straps were cutting into my traps.
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sod being up there, let alone sat near the edge! And is that gap in the cliff i see you have to get over?
The gap is about a metre wide. That is why they call it Hanging Rock. Takes a bit of nerve to jump over it. Here is a shot looking down from where I was sitting.
I brought a harness and rope to fasten myself to the tree but when I got there I decided to climb out there without it.
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Here is another view of Hanging Rock. I must return and have another go but earlier in the day.
Have a look at the dare devils jumping off the cliff and going under hanging rock! No thanks.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=hanging+rock+rope+swing+
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if u scared of heights u weak race!
U get used to hights. I had a job working on buildings with my Trimble total station, scared to death first time, then just got more and more "brave"...and thats stupid!
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how did you take that photo from a distance?
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not a fan of heights or deep water...another form of heights to me
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I love heights, I made it in the news ::) about 5 month ago ,helping to build the new Viking stadium .
http://www.startribune.com/video/268951381.html
(http://publicradio1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/stadium-watch/files/2014/08/roof-truss.jpg)
man that takes a good amount of solid nerves and courage,i saw some dudes cleaning trhe windows of this builsing i was fixing the ventalation/heating unit on in new york about 17 stories up. they where hanging there by clips that r installed on the outside of the windows, i waved at them and gave them the thumbs up, they got balls of steel imo
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Hate tall buildings and looking down but can sit in a plane thousands of feet in the air and look out. Never understood that, maybe coz it's so high there's no sense of height from the srroundings
Same here and I'm a pilot. Generally I think it's because I'm enclosed in something. Maybe also because I'm controlling it.
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how did you take that photo from a distance?
I put my Canon 5DII on a tripod. Then I added a wireless remote unit from Canon. Cost over $600 and will trigger the camera from up to 100 metres away.
I turned the camera on, set the delay for 10 seconds and focused it. Then I went down and out to the end. I was some 50 or 60 metres away. I had a remote control with me and
clicked the shutter then pretended to do something. When I finished I went up to the camera and brought the lot further down the hill so I would be closer.
Then I got out on the end again! Twice in one day. I foolishly brought my 500mm lens with me and it was a burden to carry all that way and then back again. Plus up the hill.
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Same here and I'm a pilot. Generally I think it's because I'm enclosed in something. Maybe also because I'm controlling it.
when i get on a plane i have to take some xanax,if i dont ill have a panic attack or something
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I foolishly brought my 500mm lens with me and it was a burden to carry all that way and then back again. Plus up the hill.
A catadioptric, prime, or zoom lens?
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aha, good photo. looks beautiful there
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A catadioptric, prime, or zoom lens?
Canon 500 F4is prime lens. I now have the 600mm.
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Canon 500 F4is prime lens. I now have the 600mm.
All shit stirring aside you should team up with a hiking or photo club out there, V. That's got to be a lot of extra steps on your own. If you can catch views like that by yourself you'd get amazing stuff with some extra hands.
Always great pics, dude.
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Still an impressive photo, disappointed you're not doing the thumbs up, clenched fist or pointing pose
Canon 500 F4is prime lens. I now have the 600mm.
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started with atat trouble shooting towers... climb 300ft towers sometimes when the guys up top cant fix it. you have to have faith in your climbing harness, if not you make it worse. seen guys hang upside down fix towers, crazy bastards
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I've jumped out of a plane at 13 000 ft but I still can't look down from my 24th floor balcony...
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I am, feeling very uncomfortable... Sometimes i have to work on roofs and bridges, not easy... Gracie bjj would you like to talk about 9/11 via pm?
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Pics like this make me nervous
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The first time I went skydiving I was fine until I got to the door. My mind was telling me not to jump and my body was not cooperating as I stared down 14k feet.
I finally rocked my body out the door and it was a rush!
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Pics like this make me nervous
(http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=560644.0;attach=591278;image)
The rule of thumb for construction safety standards in the 1930’s was to expect a fatality for every million dollars of total budget.
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As a strong man my only fear is catabolism.
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Love???....love???...how about tolerate?
Yes , I love heights the higher ,the better .
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when i get on a plane i have to take some xanax,if i dont ill have a panic attack or something
What causes you to panic? I can't understand why people are so frightened of flying. Commercial found has become so safe. Riding a bus is more dangerous.
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Bass ill comeback tour in thread
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I know there's a new thing in the climbing community about climbing without ropes... I remember seeing it on 60 minutes... Alex Honnold was the guy:
Video (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-2850078/Climber-scales-2-500ft-sheer-rock-face-without-rope.html).
I am scared shitless of heights, so seeing anyone attempt these type of stunts makes me cringe.
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(http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=560644.0;attach=591278;image)
The rule of thumb for construction safety standards in the 1930’s was to expect a fatality for every million dollars of total budget.
I think it is generally agreed that the photo was staged but the workers were real.
In other words, the photo was shot in a studio then blended into the shot of the girder on the 69th floor of that skyscraper.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2206050/The-picture-proves-iconic-photograph-workers-eating-lunch-Rockefeller-beam-publicity-stunt.html
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I think it is generally agreed that the photo was staged but the workers were real.
In other words, the photo was shot in a studio then blended into the shot of the girder on the 69th floor of that skyscraper.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2206050/The-picture-proves-iconic-photograph-workers-eating-lunch-Rockefeller-beam-publicity-stunt.html
The photo may be manipulated, but the dictum I stated is nonetheless true. Construction projects during this period expected a fatality for every $1,000,000 USD of budget.
Edit: The photo is staged, but they are indeed 69 stories up.
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I sure as fuck am.
Heights i don't know but there a A LOT of guys here who are afraid of hweights on a bar, squatting it ass to grass.