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adamangler

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Came out to this.View attachment 7917

Yep, that's the contents of my 500l tank lol

Alas, there was no major problem just that I had opened the tap to wash my hands before I went in and forgot to turn it off.

Have about 50 left in it. So that's my day cut short as I'm half hour from home . Might squeeze a couple more houses out of it.

Any excuse to go home early eh lol

 
Could trad em this afternoon mate /emoticons/wink.png
Yeh I could :laugh:

I do have trad gear and ladders with me.

Except last time i tried to climb a ladder I got half way up and then came back down shaking. :eek:

 
Yeh I could :laugh:
I do have trad gear and ladders with me.

Except last time i tried to climb a ladder I got half way up and then came back down shaking. :eek:
Try doing dormer windows in a loft conversion on a townhouse with 8.5m ladders fully out

Even makes my pooper quiver a bit lol

Safe to say the ankalad and microlite were in use doing that

I know when ladders are too high for me if the phone rings and i won't stop and answer it up there

 
I used to climb and abseil as a hobby so have no fear ( well a healthy fear as you need to know what is dodgy) of heights

175ft upside down abseil is fun

 
Used to do abseiling as well, used to run down forwards, used to love it.

My problem with ladders is complacency, I know I will fall off if I use them to often as I have absolutely no fear and I think fear is good for ladder work.

 
Same here @Diwrnach

What i consider fine and safe i have had other people with me who have been panicking for me and they are the ones just standing there or footing the ladder

It is all perception

I know if i do things correctly having had experience growing up working with my mums 2nd husband who is a roofer and working on the glass for so long i am fine but it is too easy to get complacent and it only takes 1 **** up to put you in intensive care

 
I did a 3 story last week with one side of the ladder propped up on part of a broken brick and far from straight lol, had to get the wife to hold it on one side so it didn't go sideways.

Still climbed it without a thought.

Stupid.

 
I recorded a programme on telly last night about people who do industrial abseiling and how it is one of the most dangerous jobs in the country

Gonna watch it in a mo as i love that sort of stuff

 
We were forced to abseil when i was about 10 years old on a school trip.

Lean backwards 90 degrees over the edge of a bridge 100ft up in the air holding onto a bit of rope, safe to say that i cried, in fact quite a lot of us cried that day lol

 
We did the same as the royal marines selection excercise when you have to have 100% faith in your belay holding the rope at the bottom as you run forwards off a rock face and down it

I think that is what @Diwrnach was talking about also

That bit when you lean back over the edge into a sitting position is quite comfortable and i have been known to sit like that and have a smoke while waiting for others to hurry up

 
It is indeed, I also did marine selection when I was 19.

Long story but my eyesight let me down.

 
I always wanted to join the marines

Where kids go to sea cadets etc i went to royal marine cadets in nw london

I have pics of me at 18 in full marine uniform and was well into it

Got into mechanics at school and ended up doing my apprenticeship in the bodyshop and then joined reme

I still to this day regret not doing selection for the marines

Was 12.5 stone

Running 100m for borough of barnet

Boxing

In the gym all the time

Climbing

Abseiling

Provisional canoe/kyak instructor at welsh harp sailing base

One of my biggest regrets not joining

 

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