L33 BYT

Am I a Im a 23 year old fella but scared of hights real bad. Been working on a site in Derby installing a multi site telephone system we had to run some phones over to some of the control rooms so used over head cabling. Shit one is an understatment. It took me 30 minutes to get this high.

JAP CRAP

mate, I'm terrible with heights as well

reckon you picked the wrong career though

Chrissy_bwoy

do it a few times and all is good,

i do the same as you and after a while when your used to it, and youve proved to yaself uve come back down with no probs it will seem a whole lot calmer and easier to do, jus take ya time,

try looking down the 30th floor of a half built clifford chance building in canary wharf and lobbing a cable off!!!

RSrussell

nah your a pussy, what would be the worse if you fell?

Broken neck? broken legs/arms legs with bones popping out through your clothes? paah

cossiemen

scared about heights

AndyGranger

Near matlock by any chance?

L33 BYT

Longliffe Quarry mate. Near Ashbourne

Rene

had that as well but since i snowboard i have no problems with heights what so ever

James Raby

iTrader: (1)

I hate heights and fast roller coater rides, shit meself!!!

But ok with heights if summit there to stop me fallin'

richm

nowt unusual at all - I used to work in the mining industry when we had one, wierd thing is I was quite happy working on top of the cage with a half-mile drop 2 feet away, but fook would i go up the winding tower.. difference was, you couldn't see more than 20ft down the shaft as it was pitch black, so didn't worry about the other 2620 feet drop!

Rich@rd

I bungyjumped from 70 meters on crete. I saw the whole Island.. And I loved it.. Fooking awsome. So no scary for any heights though...

Chrissy_bwoy

high enough for ya??

Rab

I have the same thing..... I work on ships, and when the need comes for me to climb up to the top of the engine room.......

Not a fan/ I'm alright say, inside a building, but as soon as I can see DOWN.....

Graceland

top deck of a bus shits me up

hot a licence for them genie lifters that go about 50 foot - got to about 20 foot and was a shivering wreck

JamesH

iTrader: (21)

Not too bad with heights, or roller coasters and stuff

st3v3

well i got to here,by mistake,the highest point in Lanzarotte....and i was foookin scared



hope its not too big...

Mul@AMS

Fookin shit the bed moments wen it comes to heights with me

MadMac

weegaz22

nah im fine round heights, just makes me a bit more aware of what im doing, specially on really tall scaffold towers that sway back and forward when you move about on them

Stu.H

yeah the blackpool tower and the "walk of faith" is quite good

especially when u got 5 and 6 yr old kids JUMPING up and down on it

RichardPON

It's a phobia like any other - there's nothing sad about it at all...........

foreigneRS

as rich said.

i also used to be scared of heights, but no longer am. i used the power of my mind to just overcome it. deliberately go up high places that would normally make you shit yourself, but go up willingly with the positive thought first that it is alright.

do this a few times, and hopefully you'll get over it. now whenever i'm up a castle tower or summat, i jump up onto the wall and stand there and look down and everything just to reinforce the effect.

try it, but you have to have the power in your mind. that's the only thing stopping you, and it's within your power to control it.

RSeb

i used to be shit scared of heghts too went abseiling when younger after a couple of gos problem solved! now i sky dive from 15000ft for shits and giggles and its the most awsome thing i ever did!!!!!!!! just get out there and get amongst it!!!!!!!!

Martyn

Its when u get too casual about it that accidents happen, always best to be abit scared to keep your wits about you.
I have to go up about 40 foot in a little cage on a reach truck at work, scares the shite out of me sometimes!

Adam_BlackRS

Do you work for Hanson ?

Martyn

Nah, ABX Logistics

~Vix~

well i aint a bloke but i'm pretrified of heights! actually i'm scared of loadsa things

Lambchop

iTrader: (1)

i'm really not a fan of heights and dont like m8s fucking about near me anywhere high. friend lived on 2nd top floor of a massive tower block and i could only just bring myself to look out the window but i was deadly serious saying to my mates i'd go right fuckin through them whatever it took if they came near me pretendin to fuck about etc

phobias suck

Sticky.

iTrader: (4)

I use to be scared of heights but aint now

I was told you only fall once & that got rid of my fear. Touch wood, i havent fell yet

matts1

It ain't sad I hate roller coasters, the climb and just as you go over - fooking squeeeel like a little girl, couldn't tell you if i like the rest of it, my eyes are tight shut and my brain is to busy keeping my rectum shut

Do like cliff edges though, and climbing up and down them without safety gear, something fun about getting into a situation you chose and have to get yourself out of - must be the control factor.

L33 BYT

Back there tomorrow. I will take my proper camera there as the ones above were of my phone.

Adam_BlackRS

RST_lee, Is that a Hanson site your working on ???

gurnE

Not too bothered by heights myself.

Always get the urge to jump off when ever I'm up somewhere high tho

L33 BYT

Sorry mate see that posted earlier and some one else replied. Nah its Longcliffe Calcium Carbonates Ltd.

richm

That is a recognised medical condition Lee, as is the urge to push someone else off who is close to you.. Mate of mine used to work on radio masts with a guy like this, they both recognised he had that tendency, so had to make sure they worked far enough apart from each other...

starturbo

Theres nothing wrong with being scared of hights mate as a lot of peeps have already said.I think a lot of people have a phobia of some sort.It might be heights,spiders,women drivers or the bank manager phonin you.I used to be like a squirrel up the highest tree when i was younger tryin for conkers and you dont think twice about the consequences.When you grow up a bit you tend to think first.I got into a wiselift which is an electric elavating platform to work on an aircraft tail last week to fix some cables and the guy i was with was being a bit cocky and started rocking it from side to side as i clung onto the floor.It was only then that i realised i had the same problem as you.I tried to make excuses to get down like "I needed a pee,fag,coffee" and after they failed i had to threaten to beat the shit out of him if he didnt stop wobblin it.He got the message in the end.Oh and i am far from a chutnet ferret as well before any one says anything.

lancia delta 6 times WRC

I'm not too keen either, i had to install all the lighting up our 350ft stack. All straight climb and when windy sways real bad, well bad enough to make me feel ill.

Good points are always the great veiws and piece and quite

wildheart

iTrader: (4)

Longcliffe is just down the road from me,i may come and laugh at you tomorrow

CosRush

Fella,

I spent most of my life growing up petrified of heights. I would get 10 feet off the ground and that was enough...

I remember going on a school trip where we went to a massive factory, with huge towers, part of the trip was to stand on the top of them....
Not for me....no way.

What you feel is very common.
I decided to face my fear when i was 18 as i didn't want it to rule my life.
So i did a Parachute Jump, then another and another.... 5 later i was cured.

I have no problems at all now. I can happily sit on the edge of a high building and not be worried. Although to be honest, NOW when up high, i think about strapping a parachute on and jumping....A complete reversal....

L33 BYT

ITs getting better been up a ladder all day fitting a wireless link. Took about an hour to get up but there we go.