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
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.
Seán Byrne
2024-08-27 22:59:21 +0000 UTCOh 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
Paul Ste. Marie
2024-08-27 20:58:11 +0000 UTCAge 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.
Howard
2024-08-27 20:03:56 +0000 UTCTo 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
2024-08-27 16:02:02 +0000 UTCStanding on a two-step stepladder makes me freak out nowadays
IamFubar
2024-08-27 15:58:15 +0000 UTCThat’s good to know.
Chris Horry
2024-08-27 15:30:23 +0000 UTCfeck that, not my idea of a nice night out. 🤣 2x👍
DC Allan
2024-08-27 14:38:33 +0000 UTCProbably...
Curtis Hoffmann
2024-08-27 13:59:40 +0000 UTCI have never been so close to a crane. It´s like being there myself. Thank you!
Kurt
2024-08-27 13:03:35 +0000 UTCThank you for this lovely ride! Also very nice rare view.
Kurt
2024-08-27 13:01:41 +0000 UTCLast year for the current creative director, so the content will change.
Big Clive
2024-08-27 12:52:39 +0000 UTCProbably an expensive crane.
Big Clive
2024-08-27 12:51:40 +0000 UTCWith most lifts it doesn't take much to make the tilt alarm go off. JLG are one of the worst for that.
Big Clive
2024-08-27 12:51:14 +0000 UTCI'm not brilliant with heights but went up in a balloon a few times and it's quite relaxing!
Mike Page
2024-08-27 11:18:02 +0000 UTCReminds 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.
Chris Horry
2024-08-27 11:08:24 +0000 UTCThe vertical video add to the feeling of height. Very nice 👍
David Collins-Cubitt (Sn0wlink)
2024-08-27 09:40:10 +0000 UTCBuilt by the lowest bidder...
Curtis Hoffmann
2024-08-27 07:31:21 +0000 UTCI'm 5'7" and I don't like being this tall.....
Mike Hughes
2024-08-27 06:44:12 +0000 UTCEff that. You're a braver man than me Clive. Feel sick just watching that...!
Rup (FastAsFunk)
2024-08-27 05:48:58 +0000 UTCWatched 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.
Lorcán Adrain
2024-08-27 04:59:54 +0000 UTCWent up and tested a relatively short man-lift...then the guys down below killed the power. I'm not a fan of heights.
Adam McKnight
2024-08-27 04:05:16 +0000 UTCWow clive that reminds me of my late friend who was an Iron worker .
Richard Lackie
2024-08-27 03:54:46 +0000 UTCThey park it and kill the power when you are still up there. 😂
Lostngone
2024-08-27 03:29:56 +0000 UTCYou're a braver man than me!!!
Doug Merrett
2024-08-27 01:01:58 +0000 UTCNO!!!!!!
John Key
2024-08-27 00:48:26 +0000 UTCSweaty palms just watching it. But great nevertheless!
Philip Holland
2024-08-27 00:40:22 +0000 UTCNO!!!
Brad Walker
2024-08-27 00:19:27 +0000 UTCFor this one I’d say It would depend on how much trust I have in the crew chief.
Fëanor Evanstar
2024-08-27 00:14:35 +0000 UTC
