This will make your SPHINCTER twitch

[Gazwag]

It's the thought of buggers who must have gone up there first to build the thing that gives me the shivers!

would they have built it on the ground and hoisted it up

 

[captainmorganrum]

what is it - i cant get youtube at work

What about this?
LiveLeak.com - Stairway to Heaven – Climbing a 1786 ft Tower

 

[clippedgull]

I wish the bloke would keep his head steady, the movement is making me feel queasy!

 

[Martinf]

I feel sick.

This.

 

[GYM]

Serious danger pay!!!!!!!

No way would you get me near that thing and I dont mind heights

 

[Southwick_Seagull]

Wouldn't wanna do that on a windy day!

 

[Easy 10]

Wouldn't like his life insurance premiums.

 

[m20gull]

No. Just no.

So that's how they change the red light bulbs on the top!

 

[drew]

Wouldn't wanna do that on a windy day!

I wouldn't do it irrespective of what I had eaten the previous day!

I like the way he says 'when there are storm clouds there is no quick way down'. Well, actually there is. However, it is not the preferred method of descent!!!

 

[JBizzleBeard]

Fook me!!

 

[footychick]

!!! What if they needed a wee?!

 

[Theatre of Trees]

!!! What if they needed a wee?!

They pee off the side, whose going to notice 1768 foot below.

 

[chimneys]

Wow!

1. What do they get paid do you reckon? Presumably similar to North Sea divers i.e. a lot!
2. How did they get that tower up there in the first place?

 

[brakespear]

oh good god no.

that bit near the top when he clips on for a rest and takes both his hands off the ladder nearly did for me

 

[tedebear]

My palms are now sweating....I couldn't watch it all the way through..

 

[clippedgull]

Bad news, seems like the guy who filmed it, is getting nasty noises from the industry.

First off I want to thank everyone for the great response I got on the video “Stairway to Heaven”, it was really much more than I could have hoped for. Now, having said that I am also very sorry that I could not keep the video up for you to share with your friends and family. I truly am sorry, I can see from the comments how popular it was and that’s why I want to explain what happened.
The footage of the climb came from a friend of mine that does this type of work, I have know him for several years and he has helped me many times in the past. Recently he gave me this video he shot on one of his jobs. I showed him the edited video and he approved it and I put it up on TheOnLineEngineer.Org and You Tube over the weekend. On Monday he was getting calls from colleagues telling him that they were concerned about what the video showed. His world is a very small one, and you don’t want to bite the hand that feeds you! Some facility owners are pretty uptight about liability and such and may not hire him if they think he does not take safety seriously.
So he asked me to take it down, and I did. That was Monday morning (Sep 13, 2010). Today (Sep 15) he told me it was up on You Tube, by the time I looked at it it had over 77,000 views. It was on more than a dozen websites. The chance that someone important would see it was increasing rapidly. So the video most of you saw was one that had been ripped off from my website before I took it down. I wrote asking the guy who put it up to take it down but got no response so I contacted You Tube.
Once again I am sorry about pulling the video, I know that every time I looked at it my legs got weak, there’s no way I could do that type of work. AND THATS MY POINT – I need this guy who made the video, we plan to do more of them, but it won’t happen if he can’t get work because he’s been black listed by the industry. He’s also my friend and I don’t want to see him get hurt because of some video I put up on the internet.
We have had two offers to broadcast this video, a request to submit it to a film festival in France, over 118,000 views on You Tube. This was all much more than we had ever planned for or thought would happen.
AS SOON AS WE CAN WE WILL HAVE MORE VIDEOS ABOUT TOWER CLIMBING, in the mean time please be patient.
And once again thank you for all the comments.

 

[sam86]

No. f***ing. Way.

I was going to comment on 1.20 about him having to climb onto a platform... then I watched the rest.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

i think ill stick to washing machines

What type of.machine do you wash?

I felt queasy watching that. I am sure I almost had a cardiac arrr....arrrr....arrryt... heart attack jumping 30 metres into some water on a stag do last month. They are brave men!

 

[Frutos]

I don't feel comfortable up a ladder to hang stuff off the ceiling at work, so f*** that.

 

[mcshane in the 79th]

I would love to do something like that. Great stuff