Reminds me of the time I was doing a theme project in Calgary a few years ago.
There was a structural steel tower being constructed around which we were to build a tree. It was indoors and three stories high.
The fellows doing the structural steel were different to say the least. To lift the last few pieces of steel to the top they had trouble thinking of a way and too small a budget to rent the proper equipment. They first took a dose of courage by toking up real good (out of site of the foreman. They then tied a rope to the bravest crew member and sent him up the tower. After looping the rope through the trusses and tying the other end to the beam he began climbing down the tower head first pulling the HEAVY beam up as he went.
I couldn't watch as he got lower and lower on the tower and eventually the steel passed him.
One slip and he would have crashed into the steel on the way back up or had the rope come undone he would have crashed into the floor and then had the big steel beam land on top of him.
But he survived unscathed and the tower eventually passed inspection (after failing three times for bad welding)
I breathed a sigh of relief when the project was dismantled a few years later when the business failed.
Lowest bidder isn't always the smartest way to build.
-dan
-------------------- Dan Sawatzky Imagination Corporation Yarrow, British Columbia dan@imaginationcorporation.com http://www.imaginationcorporation.com
Being a grampa is one of the the most wonderful things in the world!!! Posts: 8738 | From: Yarrow, B.C. Canada | Registered: Nov 1998
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Is this a before poster? I dont want to see the after picture, that's a tall structure.
It's like a cartoon I saw a number of years ago when they revoked the local motorcycle helmet laws. First panel, guy was riding with his feet of the pegs, with the caption 'Look Ma, no feet'. Second panel, guy was riding with his hands off the handle bars, with the caption 'Look ma, no hands' The last panel, guy riding with no helmet, 'Look Ma, no brains'
The ladder picture is much like the last cartoon panel.
I did notice there was a guy at the bottom of the ladder, the boss I would asume???
-------------------- "Are we having fun yet?" Peter Schuttinga DZines Sign Studio 1617 Millstream rd Victoria BC V9B-6G4 Posts: 521 | From: Victoria BC | Registered: Mar 2002
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This is no lie. There was a guy in this town who used to tie an extension ladder on the end of his Skyhook boom, to reach certain high rise signs on I-75. Talk about swaying in the breeze.
The guy in your photo at the bottom is probably the anchor man. He was told to just sit there and hold the bottom to keep it from slipping, but now he's in a quandry, because the guy on the ladder just told him to bring up another bulb.
-------------------- Jeff Ogden 8727 NE 68 Terr. Gainesville FL, 32609 Posts: 2138 | From: 8827 NE 68 Terr Gainesville Fl 32609 | Registered: Aug 2002
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Not to offend anybody, but that is plain nuts! I fell once five years ago from somthing a whole lot safer than that. Broke my back. Good luck to you, you're a braver man than me!
""Good judgment comes from experience; and a lot of that comes from bad judgment" - Will Rogers Posts: 3486 | From: Beautiful Newaygo, Michigan | Registered: Mar 2003
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