Friday, August 15, 2014

Don't Try This At Home, Kids!

     Tower guys slicing out a bit of the top of one of the towers on the building formerly known as the Sears Tower in Chicago, so they can mount a "gin pole," a kind of footless crane, and take down some unused antennas.

     It curdles my hair to watch.

7 comments:

Fuzzy Curmudgeon said...

I am really glad I watched that BEFORE caffeine. Because nope.

Dave In Indiana said...

I've been to the top of that building once, that was enough for me. It takes a special kind of insanity to want to make a living erecting sky scrapers or climbing towers.

Old NFO said...

Can we say vertigo??? Sheesh...

Bob in Houston said...

I'm pretty sure that's what our President would call "not a smidgen" of Nope right there, and yes, that's the kind of Nope that is so Nope that it deserves capitalization.

Comrade Misfit said...

I think it's always been the John Handcock tower. The Sears tower is now called the Willis tower.

Roberta X said...

Okay.

Adrian K said...

John Hancock is famous for the Xs on the outside. IIRC, National Geographic did an article on it as an example of a modern multi-use tower when I was a youngster.