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Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 10:32 pm
by henpecked
Assembling the tallest building in the world in ............
90 days !
All 'off site modular' but what a feat. 5 times as energy efficient, one tenth the cost of the 'Burj al Arab' and most importantly, 5 tames as earthquake resistant than current buildings
Talk about 'forcing the leading edge' . :O
Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 11:16 pm
by lutonlagerlout
so what happens when some one flies a plane into it?
no need to go so high
just build a radio antenna 1000m high then lets forget about it
i have been up the eiffel tower and the stratosphere tower and they are plenty high enough at 1000ft
LLL
Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 11:23 pm
by mickg
this video set the ground breaking speed constructing a 30 storey high modular hotel in only 360 hours
30 storey hotel constructed in only 15 days
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 5:20 am
by haggistini
Crazy shit... I'm happy on the ground boys ain't got the head for heights I'm like bambi on scaffolding....
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 9:02 am
by henpecked
haggistini wrote:Crazy shit... I'm happy on the ground boys ain't got the head for heights I'm like bambi on scaffolding....
I'm the opposite, the higher the better 
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 9:05 am
by Tony McC
My dad would get dizzy on the first rung of a ladder; I'm ok, but feel happier on the ground; while my back was turned, my 3-yr old granddaughter scuttled all the way up a double extension ladder at the weekend to see what it was like when grandad scraped the leaves from the gutters!
Is vertigo genetically inherited or learned?
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 4:22 pm
by Carberry
Tony McC wrote:Is vertigo genetically inherited or learned?
Not sure but you would probably find this experiment interesting
Visual Cliff experiment
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 5:40 pm
by rab1
to be honest I personally think that if your scared of heights and have to work at height you get used to it but have a more carefull attitude and a greater respect of the dangers.
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 6:28 pm
by lutonlagerlout
never bothered me,but when you have been on the monkey for 3 years you just have to get used to ladders and such.
I have seen grown men freeze on roofs and scaffolds,and it can hit you at anytime
danny the groundworker who was with us recently froze on a ladder,he couldnt get off onto a flat roof 2 storeys up
he just stood there stuck to the ladder,poor sod
it must be a "what you are used to thing"
i like getting up high and having a good look around
LLL 
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 7:35 pm
by mickg
>>>>when you have been on the monkey for 3 years
go on I give up what does this means
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 7:54 pm
by Mikey_C
mickg wrote:>>>>when you have been on the monkey for 3 years
go on I give up what does this means
+1
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 7:54 pm
by rab1
think it means scaffolder
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 8:39 pm
by lutonlagerlout
hod carrier
round these parts it is known as being on the monkey
the hod is often referred to as a monkey
i guess it is a monkey on your back
LLL
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 8:54 pm
by mickg
we just called them hod carriers 
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 9:05 pm
by GB_Groundworks
god do you remember the double sized mortar hods, i remember cutting my teeth during school holidays as a 15 yr old carrying them up the ladders i do love telehanders and mortar skips