Just a nice morning workout

[NuttinItUp]

Being a little scared of heights, this video made my skin crawl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZTTu-4sKTM

[Dr. Starcs]

That was hard to watch.

What an idiot.

[NuttinItUp]

That was hard to watch.

What an idiot.

Dude definitely has too much "Assassin's Creed" on the brain.

[Inhogswetrust]

That was hard to watch.

What an idiot.

It's one thing to do something with a backup just in case something happens. It is more than idiotic to do something without a backup or some sort of safety measure or equipment.

[jkstock04]

I read something about this a while back...hanging off buildings and doing stunts on the ledges while filming yourself is becoming a new fad. And no I'm not joking.

[jkstock04]

https://www.google.com/amp/www.citylab.com/amp/article/363980/

Gotta love millennials.

[Dr. Starcs]

Good for them. Less of them we'll have to deal with.

[Vantage 8 dude]

Being a little scared of heights, this video made my skin crawl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZTTu-4sKTM

Well all I can say is that if for whatever reason he wasn't fully awake before he went "ledge crawling" he had better be in a hurry!!

[NuttinItUp]

https://www.google.com/amp/www.citylab.com/amp/article/363980/

Gotta love millennials.

Jeebus. I watched the video on that link and went to his YouTube page.

That dude is bat$hit crazy.

[Tyro3]

It's one thing to do something with a backup just in case something happens. It is more than idiotic to do something without a backup or some sort of safety measure or equipment.

Thinking of safety equipment, we just returned from a trip to Hawaii, and they were working on the roof of one of the buildings at the resort, all were using ropes tied to a harness (sounds good) the problem was if they had fallen off,  the ropes were so long they would have hit the ground and had at least ten feet of slack

[jkstock04]

Jeebus. I watched the video on that link and went to his YouTube page.

That dude is bat$hit crazy.

I get the nutts in stomach syndrome when I'm watching stuff like that. I'm not terrified of heights but stuff like that for sure scares me. I watched a video a couple years back of a guy with a go pro on his helmet climbing to the top of a tower a mile high...lol not my thing!

[RagingHawgOn]

[theFlyingHog]

Offer me a million bucks and a night with Kate Upton to climb that tower and I'll tell you to go bugger yourself

[GolfNut57]

why climb down from that high? Can't you just use a parachute to get down? 

[LSUFan]

I'd rather watch kittens die than do this $hit

[GolfNut57]

No idea if true but I was told a long time ago that a tower climber like that gets paid 100K per job for doing that. And that they get paid on the spot as soon as they get back on the ground. If it's true you could only do that once a year and still be well off.

[jkstock04]

Offer me a million bucks and a night with Kate Upton to climb that tower and I'll tell you to go bugger yourself

And this coming from a pilot! Ya offer me a million bucks and I still don't think I would do it. Most of the time that guy is free climbing...no safety rope or carabiner unless he is stationary and resting.

Imagine if there was a big gust of wind...and you know that high up that tower has to sway some.

[Jackrabbit Hog]

When I was a senior in high school i climbed our town's water tower on a dare.  I thought I would be scared but turned out it was nothing.  When I got to the top I stayed about 5 minutes, walking around on the platform that went around the tank and taking in the nighttime views.  It was actually pretty cool. 

[LSUFan]

And this coming from a pilot! Ya offer me a million bucks and I still don't think I would do it. Most of the time that guy is free climbing...no safety rope or carabiner unless he is stationary and resting.

Imagine if there was a big gust of wind...and you know that high up that tower has to sway some.

OSHA actually had a little conversation with the tower climbing dudes.

[McKdaddy]

Can't imagine how long that climb took.

[LSUFan]

When I was a senior in high school i climbed our town's water tower on a dare.  I thought I would be scared but turned out it was nothing.  When I got to the top I stayed about 5 minutes, walking around on the platform that went around the tank and taking in the nighttime views.  It was actually pretty cool.

Dumas

[theFlyingHog]

When I was a senior in high school i climbed our town's water tower on a dare.  I thought I would be scared but turned out it was nothing.  When I got to the top I stayed about 5 minutes, walking around on the platform that went around the tank and taking in the nighttime views.  It was actually pretty cool.

I climbed a water tower on federal property. That's all I'm willing to say as they may still be looking for me. It was really dark inside but pretty awesome outside.

[theFlyingHog]

why climb down from that high? Can't you just use a parachute to get down? 

That's what I was thinking. With him not being hooked on most of the time and the wind....I'd have a chute

[Jackrabbit Hog]

Dumas

No, you inbred coonass.  Lonoke.

[JIMMY BOARFFETT]

When I was a senior in high school i climbed our town's water tower on a dare.  I thought I would be scared but turned out it was nothing.  When I got to the top I stayed about 5 minutes, walking around on the platform that went around the tank and taking in the nighttime views.  It was actually pretty cool. 

Did the fire department rescue guys bill you for having to bring you down or is that covered by your water and utility bill?

[PonderinHog]

Did the fire department rescue guys bill you for having to bring you down or is that covered by your water and utility bill?

Trash pickup

[Jackrabbit Hog]

Did the fire department rescue guys bill you for having to bring you down or is that covered by your water and utility bill?

Trash pickup

Listen, you lily livered rednecks....I don't see either of you performing feats of daring and bravery so keep your pie holes shut.

Unless you consider shooting bottle rockets out of your butts to be newsworthy.

[PorkSoda]

(Really near) Future Darwin award winner.

http://www.businessinsider.com/uli-emanuele-flies-through-6-foot-gap-in-cliff-2015-7

not sure if this is the guy, but I remember reading that the first guy to do this tried it a second time and didnt make it.

[LSUFan]

These guys give white people a bad name.

[RollHogTide]

I can't say that I am not afraid of heights, but I can say that as long as I have the proper safety equipment - then I feel completely safe. The only time I have ever felt kinda uneasy at heights, was working overhead while walking a catwalk between two chemical towers and it was probably only 100' or so off the ground.  OSHA and MSHA will eat you alive if you do not follow the safety procedures to the letter - often, we'd ask for the inspector to be with us before climbing or working at heights to make sure we were following the letter of the law.  I'm old, fat, and out of shape now - but if you have good steel soled boots, a proper fitting harness, good safety straps (yes two - you always have to be connected), and you don't have to pull a heavy bag of tools - it's not so bad.

Kind of a cool story - I watched a Velvet Revolver concert at the Reno Events Center, while sitting on the catwalk over the stage, drinking beer with the customer (City of Reno).

I was leaning over the top of a building one time approximately 175' up (safety harness and properly attached to the safety cable) and took a picture and sent it to my son.  He commented that he couldn't do it - but, he'll climb 30' in a climbing stand.  I told him the only difference between 30' and 300' is the amount of time that you have to get right with God before you hit the ground, because you probably aren't going to survive a fall from either and if you did - you probably would have wished you didn't.

[OneTuskOverTheLine™]

I'd rather watch kittens die than do this $hit

Id rather eat raw kittens than try that shirt!! I might can digest a few before I die. I'm pretty sure my fat assed heart would pop before I got anywhere near that ledge...

[LSUFan]

Id rather eat raw kittens than try that shirt!! I might can digest a few before I die. I'm pretty sure my fat assed heart would pop before I got anywhere near that ledge...

I'd piss my pants after all my limbs locked up.

I don't think it's "scared of heights", I think it's common sense.

[PorkSoda]

I'm not scared of heights, at least heights 10 feet and under.  I did go sky diving once (tandem with an instructor) it wasn't really that scary, at least once you are out.  its more surreal watching the ground get closer and closer like you are zooming in on a high def google map.

the worst part is everything right up until the moment you are out of the plane.  they open the door and the wind is rushing by and the ground is 10,000 feet below you, and they are talking about the guy that died last week, and they have you sit in the open doorway with your feet dangling out and you aren't strapped into anything, just hanging out waiting for the instructor (the guy with the chute) to clip in.   then boom you are out of the plane and any thoughts of chickening out are meaningless at that point, so you might as well enjoy the view.  well it was central texas so the view was mostly just farm roads and plains.

[LSUFan]

I'm not scared of heights, at least heights 10 feet and under.  I did go sky diving once (tandem with an instructor) it wasn't really that scary, at least once you are out.  its more surreal watching the ground get closer and closer like you are zooming in on a high def google map.

the worst part is everything right up until the moment you are out of the plane.  they open the door and the wind is rushing by and the ground is 10,000 feet below you, and they are talking about the guy that died last week, and they have you sit in the open doorway with your feet dangling out and you aren't strapped into anything, just hanging out waiting for the instructor (the guy with the chute) to clip in.   then boom you are out of the plane and any thoughts of chickening out are meaningless at that point, so you might as well enjoy the view.  well it was central texas so the view was mostly just farm roads and plains.

Did you die?

[PorkSoda]

Did you die?

no, but I no longer am into tempting fate. 

having kids quickly puts an end to the adrenaline junkie phase.

but I will probably take my son when he is a little older.  everyone needs to jump out of a perfectly good airplane at least once in their life.  It helps put things in perspective.

[GolfNut57]

no, but I no longer am into tempting fate. 

having kids quickly puts an end to the adrenaline junkie phase.

but I will probably take my son when he is a little older.  everyone needs to jump out of a perfectly good airplane at least once in their life.  It helps put things in perspective.

Pass.....I don't need to go sky diving and jump out of a perfectly good airplane to put life in perspective. Having open heart surgery last October took care of that for me.

I don't know why but nowadays all the small things that used to irritate me in the past no longer do........

P.S. And on a personal note, (I guess this is also ironic)........even though I am not a Hog fan I now have a Pig valve in my heart.    Yeah, my mother who IS a huge Hog fan thought that was just so funny..........

[HogShat]

Right out of high school my first career choice was aviation maintenance. Quickly learned there is no such thing as a "perfectly good airplane." I'm kind of like my Papaw now. I don't wanna be no higher than pickin' corn and no lower than diggin' 'taters...

[McKdaddy]

Pass.....I don't need to go sky diving and jump out of a perfectly good airplane to put life in perspective. Having open heart surgery last October took care of that for me.

I don't know why but nowadays all the small things that used to irritate me in the past no longer do........

P.S. And on a personal note, (I guess this is also ironic)........even though I am not a Hog fan I now have a Pig valve in my heart.    Yeah, my mother who IS a huge Hog fan thought that was just so funny..........

Good comment on perspective.

I did not know you weren't a Hog fan.  Besides the Sox, who is/are your preferred team(s)?

[theFlyingHog]

Right out of high school my first career choice was aviation maintenance. Quickly learned there is no such thing as a "perfectly good airplane." I'm kind of like my Papaw now. I don't wanna be no higher than pickin' corn and no lower than diggin' 'taters...

As a pilot, I was amazed when I started flying at how often the maintenance guys were guessing. I've had two in-flight radio failures, turned them off and/or pulled the cb and reported it upon landing only to see the corrective action was that they turned it on and pushed the cb back in

[PorkSoda]

Pass.....I don't need to go sky diving and jump out of a perfectly good airplane to put life in perspective. Having open heart surgery last October took care of that for me.

I don't know why but nowadays all the small things that used to irritate me in the past no longer do........

P.S. And on a personal note, (I guess this is also ironic)........even though I am not a Hog fan I now have a Pig valve in my heart.    Yeah, my mother who IS a huge Hog fan thought that was just so funny..........

to be honest, I'd rather jump out of an airplane than have open heart surgery.

[GolfNut57]

Good comment on perspective.

I did not know you weren't a Hog fan.  Besides the Sox, who is/are your preferred team(s)?

You likely didn't know I wasn't a Hog fan because I make a point of not being a troll here on Hogville. I mostly come here for the Golf Forum. But I do visit the other forums if there is something worth reading on them. The Red Wolves are my #1 team. But FSU Seminoles as a secondary football team and the Duke Blue Devils as my second NCAA BB team. MLB baseball and Golf are the only pro sports I follow. Screw the NBA, NFL, Soccer and Hockey.

to be honest, I'd rather jump out of an airplane than have open heart surgery.

It was a scary as hell experience to be sure. Especially since I never saw major surgery like that coming anytime soon. Even though I was overweight.........hell flat out Obese to be honest......I thought I was in pretty good shape considering. Up to that moment I had lost 45 lbs from June to Oct. I went to the Dr for a nagging and persistent cough that wouldn't go away and thought that he would just prescribe some antibiotics for, but after a chest XRay found my lungs loaded with fluid it turned out that my Aortic Valve was completely shot and had to be replaced within the week. The Infectious Disease Dr usually wants a week to do pre-surgery tests to make sure you are good on that front but the Cardiac Surgeon was scared to wait that long. He went ahead with the surgery after just five days. Ended up spending 12 days in the hospital for the before and after time.

As an aside, back last June I was 340 and set a goal of losing 100 lbs. As of yesterday I weighed 250. That is 90 lbs gone and only 10 more to go to reach my goal of 240.