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.
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7 comments:

  1. Fuzzy CurmudgeonAugust 15, 2014 at 8:02 AM

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

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  2. Dave In IndianaAugust 15, 2014 at 5:30 PM

    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.

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  3. Old NFOAugust 15, 2014 at 9:03 PM

    Can we say vertigo??? Sheesh...

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  4. Bob in HoustonAugust 15, 2014 at 9:24 PM

    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.

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  5. Comrade MisfitAugust 16, 2014 at 12:24 PM

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

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  6. Roberta XAugust 17, 2014 at 2:38 PM

    Okay.

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  7. Adrian KAugust 17, 2014 at 5:09 PM

    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.

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