britfrog 180 Posted November 17, 2014 Report Share Posted November 17, 2014 remember its not the fall that kills you it is the sudden stop at the end. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/VxlKZereog0?rel=0 Link to post Share on other sites
Quickmarch 488 Posted November 17, 2014 Report Share Posted November 17, 2014 Cool. Note the tourists gathered under him while he's chipping concrete over their heads. Link to post Share on other sites
jaydor 345 Posted November 17, 2014 Report Share Posted November 17, 2014 No good suffering a hangover on that job.. Link to post Share on other sites
allardjd 1,853 Posted November 17, 2014 Report Share Posted November 17, 2014 Not in a million years; not for all the tea in China. John Link to post Share on other sites
hifly 925 Posted November 17, 2014 Report Share Posted November 17, 2014 I couldn't see the point of what he was doing up there. Chipping away a few pieces of precast concrete. With a safety harness on he was in no danger, the only people at risk were the crowd below, if he'd dropped his hammer or chisel someone might have got a bad headache. Link to post Share on other sites
allardjd 1,853 Posted November 17, 2014 Report Share Posted November 17, 2014 I couldn't see the point of what he was doing up there. I don't know if it ever freezes there, but if so, repairing small damaged areas is pretty important. Water and freeze/thaw cycles are pretty hard on concrete. I wouldn't want to see Jesus disarmed. If that work were done under our OSHA, it would probably require a 500 sq. ft. work platform, designed by engineers, to be built about three feet below the arm with handrails and kickboards all the way around, mesh netting to prevent dropped tools from bouncing through the handrails and the whole thing rated at > 200# per square foot. After the scaffold was put up it would have to be inspected and signed off by two or three levels of supervision and inspected once per shift until removed. It would probably be cheaper to just build a new statue. Link to post Share on other sites
hifly 925 Posted November 17, 2014 Report Share Posted November 17, 2014 Point taken about freezing and the safety regs would be about the same here. He sure was out on a limb. Link to post Share on other sites
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