Some one sent this to me. MG, i am sure you have done this more than once. who neds a hot air balloon ??!!

http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2_player_files/mp55/player.swf?config=http://www.liveleak.com/player?a=config%26item_token=07b_1284580365%26embed=1

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I no longer question authority, I annoy authority. More effect, less effort....

1967 230-6 auto parts car. rust bucket.
1980 300D now parts car 800k miles
1984 300D 500k miles
1987 250td 160k miles English import
2001 jeep turbo diesel 130k miles
1998 jeep tdi ~ followed me home. Needs a turbo.
1968 Ford F750 truck. 6-354 diesel conversion.
Other toys ~J.D.,Cat & GM ~ mainly earth moving

screw that!

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1984 300SD Orient Red/ Palomino
1989 560SEC
2016 Mazda 6 6 speed manual
1995 Ford F-150 reg cab 4.9 5speed manual

it's a job.... someone has to do it.... but hell no! not me, that video is enough to make me never sleep again... I hate heights...

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1987 300TD 311,000M Stolen. Presumed destroyed

"Here we've reached the base of the antenna. It's only another 60' to the top."

As if the fact that you're at that height already weren't enough, "tricky parts" just seem to make it that much worse!

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1980 300TD-China Blue/Blue MBTex-2nd Owner, 107K (Alt Blau) OBK #15
'06 Chevy Tahoe Z71 (for the wife & 4 kids, current mule) '03 Honda Odyssey (son #1's ride, reluctantly) '99 GMC Suburban (255K+ miles, semi-retired mule) 21' SeaRay Seville (summer escape pod)

My bowels turned to liquid watching that...

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1987 560SL
85,000 miles

Another job that I can only hope they are paid what's it worth.
$1000 an hour doesn't seem too much. At $10,000 and hour I might try it, if they would get me a life insurance policy.

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1982 300SD " Wotan" ..On the road as of Jan 8, 2007 with Historic Tags

I like the little blurb about OSHA approving of the "free-climbing" section of the tower. Yet our forklift is non-compliant because the overhead guard is an inch lower than standard.

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1980 300TD-China Blue/Blue MBTex-2nd Owner, 107K (Alt Blau) OBK #15
'06 Chevy Tahoe Z71 (for the wife & 4 kids, current mule) '03 Honda Odyssey (son #1's ride, reluctantly) '99 GMC Suburban (255K+ miles, semi-retired mule) 21' SeaRay Seville (summer escape pod)

Those pegs that he climbs for the last 60' are unsupported at the outside. A bit of corrosion at the mounting point by the tube and one of them snaps due to the high bending moment.................

I was OK ( sort of) with the climbing inside the tower. It was going outside that made me queasy, and then the climbing over and onto the "platform" did it for me.

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1982 300SD " Wotan" ..On the road as of Jan 8, 2007 with Historic Tags

The family jewels retreated back into the body......

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Mike Rowe called them back and said he'll think about it . . .

My sphincter is so tight I won't be able to crap for a week. I could not do it. No way, no how.

I like the part at 6:40 or so. "This is the tricky part, getting on top". As if the rest was cake walk.

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Sent from an agnostic abacus

2014 C250 21,XXX my new DD ** 2013 GLK 350 18,000 Wife's new DD**

- With out god, life is everything.
- God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller as time moves on..." Neil DeGrasse Tyson
- You can pray for me, I'll think for you.
- When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

I have done some steel inspection--not much, but enough to appreciate the work. In fact doing it occasionally is worse than doing it everyday--it takes a while to get a feel for it.

Having said that, a coworker related a story. He was about 11 stories up on a steel framework for a nurses dormitory in Baltimore. With him, was a man who at about 70 years old, was considered the"dean" of steel inspectors in the area. My friend was following the older guy on an 8" beam and they were trying to have a conversation, but it was difficult so the old guy, without skipping a beat, did a 180 degree turn in the middle of the span, and then walks backwards so they can talk face-to-face. My friend said it almost made him fall just to watch the guy.
Some people can do that!

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1982 300SD " Wotan" ..On the road as of Jan 8, 2007 with Historic Tags

In my B.A. years..{before arthritis} I once took a bet of 100 bucks that I couldn't climb a 120 foot radio tower. I made it up fine, no problem.
Coming down was another story, took me TWO HOURS cause I hadda look down, that killed it for me. Massive, frequent panic attacks, brown stains to match!

I was also stone cold sober at the time........................

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I just watched it again, this time with the wife and using the 50" television as a monitor. My wife will be throwing that particular pair of my underwear out in the garbage...

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1987 560SL
85,000 miles