Being scared of heights / vertigo

[malfosse]

Apprehension about heights definitely increases with age. In my early teens I would have no problem working from a ladder at the top of a gable. Also worked from some pretty dodgy scaffolding planks prior to the Health and Safety at Work act. Now I get nervous going up a step ladder to paint a ceiling.

I don't mind working off ladders usually, but the one that sacred the (bad word) out of me was in Manchester. We had to work off a flat roof and lean a ladder across the void to the next building, the gap was under 10 foot but the drop was about 30. You wouldn't have got a sheet of paper between my arse cheeks on that climb.

 

[kev]

I don't mind working off ladders usually, but the one that sacred the (bad word) out of me was in Manchester. We had to work off a flat roof and lean a ladder across the void to the next building, the gap was under 10 foot but the drop was about 30. You wouldn't have got a sheet of paper between my arse cheeks on that climb.

Another one from when I was a painting. (again this was pre 1974 H&S at work act) we were working on a three storey row of shops and our longest 3 x extension ladder wouldn't quite reach. No problem - just lash another ladder to it with a bit of rope and send up the 16 year old apprentice (yours truly). It was a freezing cold windy day too.
No wonder I packed that job in lol

 

[ForestBlue]

On the way to Goodison travelling north we go over the M6 Thelwall Viaduct .. hate it! Just have to stare ahead and follow someone's bumper.

No so bothered about it traveling South on the way home for some reason!

 

[Zezti]

Not sure if its completely the same, but people with arachnophobia say handling a big spider cures them (exposure therapy?)
So, click at your own risk:

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[malfosse]

Another one from when I was a painting. (again this was pre 1974 H&S at work act) we were working on a three storey row of shops and our longest 3 x extension ladder wouldn't quite reach. No problem - just lash another ladder to it with a bit of rope and send up the 16 year old apprentice (yours truly). It was a freezing cold windy day too.
No wonder I packed that job in lol

The firm we worked with once got a contract to paint the outside of a very tall London hotel. Accommodation, food, and use of it's health suite all thrown in for free.
It was from a bosun's chair.

This is a bosun's chair.


Can you guess which illustrious GoT poster wouldn't be seen dead in a bosun's chair.

 

[Methuselah]

Climbing ladders doesn't bother me but don't like real heights, you know like mountains and the like. When flying, I always make sure I get an aisle seat.