WANTED! Crane Operator

AllKiller · Post by **AllKiller** » Fri Nov 21, 08 10:06 am

SteveCase wrote:That'd make you jump if you were down there at the time!

Hard hat area Steve you'd be ok

Guy · Post by **Guy** » Fri Nov 21, 08 10:57 am

I was wondering, just how do they get the cranes down when they have finished

Dave-R · Post by **Dave-R** » Fri Nov 21, 08 11:07 am

Jeff wrote:
SteveCase wrote:Reminds me of being up the CN Tower in Toronto, looked down at things like that and thought the same as you!
How did you get on with the glass floor Steve? Scared me Bananarama!!

I don't remember a glass floor when I was there in 1979?
There were some "windows" so you could look straight down. Is that what you mean? But nothing in the actual floor that you could stand on or anything? That would be really cool but make your knees shake a bit.

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Fri Nov 21, 08 11:24 am

Yes Dave, they now have a glass floor you can stand on, or walk across! It paralyzed me!

Dave-R · Post by **Dave-R** » Fri Nov 21, 08 11:41 am

That would get my legs wobbling!

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Fri Nov 21, 08 11:48 am

Well, when you come visit, you can try it out!

Dave-R · Post by **Dave-R** » Fri Nov 21, 08 11:57 am

They have a CN Tower in BC as well then?

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Fri Nov 21, 08 12:13 pm

What? Keep up Dave! We are going to Ontario, Somewhere around, or close to Barrie.

Dave-R · Post by **Dave-R** » Fri Nov 21, 08 12:19 pm

Now you tell me. I just bought several thick "lumberjack" jackets. I am going to look a right prat walking around Toronto wearing them.

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Fri Nov 21, 08 12:21 pm

Mate, you will fit right in..... I want some of those, then I will get me mullet growing, and a big bushy beard!

AllKiller · Post by **AllKiller** » Fri Nov 21, 08 1:28 pm

Spinnaker Tower Portsmouth

170 metres tall and a glass viewing floor at 110 metres

You'd love it dave ....Not

Look at the peoples socks ...i defy anyone to walk on here and not try to grip your toes

Dave-R · Post by **Dave-R** » Fri Nov 21, 08 1:37 pm

That's only 360 feet mate. No problem. The roof of Durham Cathedral is higher than that and the climb up a lot more interesting with its worn 900+ year old stone tight spiral staircase.

I am actually OK with heights these days. All these 750-850m+ climbs up the steeper fells have seen to that.

I think wor Diana would have big problems with it though.

Trigger_Andy · Post by **Trigger_Andy** » Fri Nov 21, 08 2:07 pm

AllKiller wrote:Spinnaker Tower Portsmouth

170 metres tall and a glass viewing floor at 110 metres
You'd love it dave ....Not

Look at the peoples socks ...i defy anyone to walk on here and not try to grip your toes

Well try standing on a rusty grating deck that if you stamp down hard enough you put your foot through, on a 35 year old Oil rig in the North Sea with nothing but the swell of the sea crashing into the Leg's below ya! When I put my foot through it made my Sphincter tighten a few notches!

SteveCase · Post by **SteveCase** » Fri Nov 21, 08 5:41 pm

Dave, couldn't walk on the glass floor up the CN tower, but did look through it. That thing is high! Why is it that the kids insist on standing on these floors and jump up and down on them?!

Dave-R · Post by **Dave-R** » Fri Nov 21, 08 7:00 pm

Here are a couple of photos I took at the CN tower in June 1979 before they had a glass floor.

The photo looking down is from the lowest level which is the underside of the bit in the second photo.