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Do you have a head for heights?
🕑 Added 2024-08-26 23:46:02 +0000 UTCThis is what it's like going up in the crane's elevator. It's very open and very wobbly. Definitely not for the faint hearted.
Sorry for the shady footage - it was filmed late at night. It would have been better to film this in daylight, although that would have made the experience a bit more intense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1wmkxE4Gek
Comments
Seán Byrne
I think wearing glasses for nearsightedness also makes heights feel worse due to how the glasses affect distance perception. I remember finding it incredibly difficult and uncomfortable to do anything on a ladder above about 2m before I had cataract surgery (which also corrected my distance vision). Enclosed heights that don't wobble usually don't bother me, for example, I enjoyed a hot air balloon tour during a past holiday in Turkey.
Paul Ste. Marie
Oh hell, you're complaining about an enclosed elevator? Try a six inch wide catwalk about 100' above the desert. That door leads to a second door in the antenna itself when the antenna is parked, and the catwalk goes up the lower strut to the focus. When i was in college i had to go up there with my prof to change over the receiver at the focus. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:OVRO_40-m#/media/File:OVRO_40m_telescope_18.jpg https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:OVRO_40-m#/media/File%3AOVRO_40m_telescope_19.jpg https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:OVRO_40-m#/media/File%3AOVRO_40_Meter_Radio_Telescope.jpg
Howard
Age is a funny thing. When I was a young guy, installing antennas, I didn’t have any problems with heights. Nowadays it’s a different matter. I watched this about 12 hours ago and my gonads still haven’t popped back down from their hiding place in my stomach.
IamFubar
To be perfectly clear...if I had a choice to go up as high as that or to lose my most favorite thing in the world? Sorry Clive :)
IamFubar
Standing on a two-step stepladder makes me freak out nowadays
Chris Horry
That’s good to know.
DC Allan
feck that, not my idea of a nice night out. 🤣 2x👍
Curtis Hoffmann
Probably...
Kurt
I have never been so close to a crane. It´s like being there myself. Thank you!
Kurt
Thank you for this lovely ride! Also very nice rare view.
Big Clive
Last year for the current creative director, so the content will change.
Big Clive
Probably an expensive crane.
Big Clive
With most lifts it doesn't take much to make the tilt alarm go off. JLG are one of the worst for that.
Mike Page
I'm not brilliant with heights but went up in a balloon a few times and it's quite relaxing!
Chris Horry
Reminds me of my brief stint in commercial steel, one day I'm 100ft in the air on a mobile lift and the tilt alarm starts blaring. I'm panicking, the grizzled old welder standing next to me didn't even flinch.
David Collins-Cubitt (Sn0wlink)
The vertical video add to the feeling of height. Very nice 👍
Curtis Hoffmann
Built by the lowest bidder...
Mike Hughes
I'm 5'7" and I don't like being this tall.....
Rup (FastAsFunk)
Eff that. You're a braver man than me Clive. Feel sick just watching that...!
Lorcán Adrain
Watched the tattoo on the BBC last night. Thought the lighting was excellent, a bit disappointed with the performers. It could be the BBC's editing.
Adam McKnight
Went up and tested a relatively short man-lift...then the guys down below killed the power. I'm not a fan of heights.
Richard Lackie
Wow clive that reminds me of my late friend who was an Iron worker .
Lostngone
They park it and kill the power when you are still up there. 😂
Doug Merrett
You're a braver man than me!!!
John Key
NO!!!!!!
Philip Holland
Sweaty palms just watching it. But great nevertheless!
Brad Walker
NO!!!
Fëanor Evanstar
For this one I’d say It would depend on how much trust I have in the crew chief.
