Funny pic/gif thread...
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I was thinking he might be a Marine.....they are all a bunch of jarheads.
Ken :thumbup:
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Saves a lot of returns and problems.
Windy
The highest I have worked that I knew the height was 335'. As you say, very windy. I was wrapping some very thin stainless steel sheeting around an insulated pipe working alone. The sheets were 36" wide, almost five feet long, and sharp as a razor. I looked like I'd been in a barrel with a bunch of wild cats by the time I was done.
The wind was blowing somewhere around thirty miles an hour and when it caught a sheet of metal wrong all I could do was turn loose or go down with the metal. Must have lost a half dozen sheets that day. I couldn't help thinking that if a sheet of that stainless caught a person wrong at ground level it could lop a head off or cut somebody pretty much half in two. I never said anything about the lost sheets and nobody ever raised hell about it so I figured all was good.
Funny thing, the heights that scared me were from about thirty to about a hundred feet, the range where you might survive and be crippled for life if your luck was bad. After a hundred feet I figured that there wasn't much doubt, fall and you are dead. In those days some jobs had belts and single lanyards, other jobs they would look at you like you were a girly guy if you asked for a safety belt just because you were hanging by your toenails two hundred feet up!
Hu
The highest I have worked that I knew the height was 335'. As you say, very windy. I was wrapping some very thin stainless steel sheeting around an insulated pipe working alone. The sheets were 36" wide, almost five feet long, and sharp as a razor. I looked like I'd been in a barrel with a bunch of wild cats by the time I was done.
The wind was blowing somewhere around thirty miles an hour and when it caught a sheet of metal wrong all I could do was turn loose or go down with the metal. Must have lost a half dozen sheets that day. I couldn't help thinking that if a sheet of that stainless caught a person wrong at ground level it could lop a head off or cut somebody pretty much half in two. I never said anything about the lost sheets and nobody ever raised hell about it so I figured all was good.
Funny thing, the heights that scared me were from about thirty to about a hundred feet, the range where you might survive and be crippled for life if your luck was bad. After a hundred feet I figured that there wasn't much doubt, fall and you are dead. In those days some jobs had belts and single lanyards, other jobs they would look at you like you were a girly guy if you asked for a safety belt just because you were hanging by your toenails two hundred feet up!
Hu
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Might as well have a little style...get in a flip or two.
I know i have not been giving this thread the honor of my input lately...but as the Prime Contributor and Patron of the top hittin clicker:
At least the human host doesnt "take it" in the ear!!!!
