No thank you.

They're replacing a roof at work.

I've been accused, on occasion, of having a lot of balls. Not enough for that.

Heights are a killer for me. I couldn't even bear to fall.

Hoo boy. That's a little misstep away from really having a bad day.

I know an older guy who's a sign painter and started doing billboard installations a while back for a little extra cash. He never liked the billboard jobs, and decided to stop doing them to focus on other project. On his last day of installations, he fell off the platform, something like 40 feet. He survived and he's "okay" but it'll be a long while before he's right again.

hell no! I got a ranch and can't hardly get on my roof..

1-2 stories makes me a little shaky. 300' on a radio tower? Sky Diving? No problem. I'll never feel the impact at the bottom

Up until last year, I've always cleaned the gutters on my 2 1/2 storey house. Got three-quarters of the way up the ladder last spring and couldn't do it. Uh, uh, no way.

If noticed that my fear of heights has gotten worse with age.

M2Pilot wrote: If noticed that my fear of heights has gotten worse with age.

I think the greater immediate pain and slower recovery has a lot to do with this.
At least with me...

M2Pilot wrote: If noticed that my fear of heights has gotten worse with age.

Same, I usually have no issues (although I am not a fan of ladders), but last year I was on a cliff over looking a bluff and just started getting very very nervous.

M2Pilot wrote: If noticed that my fear of heights has gotten worse with age.

Another one. I used to be fearless. Last spring, spent a few hours literally cringing on a ladder and swiping at my second-story windows instead of actually, you know, cleaning them.

This year, I think I'll just enjoy the way the light from the dirty windows is more flattering to my aging skin.

Margie

Odd thing for me is that heights don't bother me in an airplane, but seriously disturb me in/on a structure.

And +2 or 3 or wherever we are on the increasing with age.

I don't have any particular fear of heights but I am getting smarter...I used to crawl out the attic window and walk down to the lower edge of the roof to clean the gutters, then I progressed to climbing up on a ladder, and finally I got new gutters with guards on them so I don't have to clean them at all.

Marjorie Suddard wrote:

M2Pilot wrote: If noticed that my fear of heights has gotten worse with age.

Another one. I used to be fearless. Last spring, spent a few hours literally cringing on a ladder and swiping at my second-story windows instead of actually, you know, cleaning them. This year, I think I'll just enjoy the way the light from the dirty windows is more flattering to my aging skin. Margie

We've got a ginormous mother berkeleyer of a telescoping rod type deal that has a hose hook-up on one end, and a brush on the other. It rules. I get nervous 8 feet off the ground. I don't do ladders.

"I know this guy" who's afraid of heights and was fairly inebriated checking into a hotel in downtown Atlanta a couple weekends ago. It wasn't until AFTER the doors had closed and he hit the button for the 28th floor that he realized he was in a GLASS berkeleyING ELEVATOR.

jrw1621 wrote:

M2Pilot wrote: If noticed that my fear of heights has gotten worse with age.

I think the greater immediate pain and slower recovery has a lot to do with this. At least with me...

I noticed it most the last time I went to Cedar Point. When it first came out, the Power Tower was the E36 M3 to me. I had to have ridden it 30 times that summer. I went a couple summers ago, and it scared the bajeezus out of me. Not a chance in hell I'll ever go on it again.

As both a sign guy ans window guy I have been dangling from some crazy high places. As long as I tie my self off I don't worry.

I've very, very respectful of heights, and always have been. In school I worked at improving the situation by rappelling. Once I'm over the edge on a rope, I'm fine.

At Airborne School, I'm convinced, the plan is to make students more afraid of the black hats (instructors) than they are of the fall. I had no problems there, even with the 250-foot free tower (Umgawa!). The actual jumps from planes were a breeze.

These days, I think long and hard before getting on the roof of my one-story house - Then I send my son.

I've jumped on the glass floor on the CN tower, on multiple occasions

That said I wouldn't want to do that job.

Its not so much the fall or the heights I'm scared of, its just that sudden stop at the bottom.

Actually, I am scared of the heights. Stadium seating makes me dizzy.

I still have a strange relationship with heights. Last Fall, we installed some new bits on the roof of the g/f's 2nd floor addition. This required setting up a ladder on the sunroof roof and then climbing up to the 2nf floor roof peak. The work we did in the middle (bath fan vent and sanitary vent) wasn't bad. Hanging out near the edge to extend the sunroom wood stove chimney got a little hairy.

But after awhile, I was up and down the ladder like it was nothing... My g/f's brother who helped does stage and scenery work professionally, so heights don't bother him at all. You get used to it. It was at that point that I crawled along the edge of the house to clean the gutters out. The addition isn't bad as the roof pitch is reasonable. The steeper pitch of the older house got my heart going, but I got the done and it's less of a hassle to do it that way than to use a ladder.

Of course, I think about some of the stuff I did in stage crew back in high school... "Hey you... hold my legs while I hang off a cat walk 60 feet above the auditorium seating to change this broken bulb..."

that's what... 6 floors? Does not seem that bad.

This is how I get up 40 feet to do the climb and focus on the truss at work

berkeley_that.

Sissies. All of you.

I heard after 5 stories, you bounce the same.

About an hour north of my house there is a local lookout that features an old fire tower. It allows you to see from the escarpment for miles over Lake Temagami.

They also have a large wood viewing platform that is built out past the edge of the cliff. I can't stand it and I can't even watch other people (especially my kids) walk out on it. You can look down through the gaps in the boards and see nuthin but air!

Lesley wrote: Up until last year, I've always cleaned the gutters on my 2 1/2 storey house. Got three-quarters of the way up the ladder last spring and couldn't do it. Uh, uh, no way.

I think its got something with the aging process . I'm the same way. Years ago I would climb up a two story ladder without a second thought. Several years ago I tried to repair the gable vents located at the peak of my two story house. My legs were shaking and I was holding on to that ladder with a death grip. Last year I bought new gable vents and had to install them. I treid to do it from inside teh attic, remembering how much trouble I had on the ladder. I borrowed a co-workers stabilizer device and put on the top of the ladder. That made all the difference in the world.