Opinions wanted please

Eric McCarthy

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Yeah I was thinking the same thing. But I want to know how the hell they found a guy willing to climb a tower. One man came up with the idea of a trackhoe climbing a tower but where do you find a man dumb enough to be the first to try. Its not like they had a safty net or anything to keep the hoe from falling.
 

Green Mountain Slim

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I wouldn't have wanted to be that reporter at the end either. He was right under that excavator when he was making the last move. I noticed all of the safety features of that climb though, and it was well engineered.

What a blast! :eek:
 

Bulldog

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I guess that reporter had no idea of the danger he was in. If a small rock had even fell off the trackhoe from that hieght it would have been ugly.