Originally Posted by
mopardave
I'm staggered at this thread! It never occurred to me that anyone would feel this way. Absolute respect though. Nutloose makes a good point.....the connection with the ground. Drifting a little here, and certainly not making a comparison.....but, as I got older, I found it more and more difficult to operate aerial platforms (up to 99 feet) in the fire service. I'll never forget the feeling when I thought I'd toppled an hydraulic platform....merely a trick of the inner ear thankfully. Anyway.....apologies for commenting here. Nothing but respect from me gents.
MD
We used them on the Tens for working up on the tail plane, I took someone up to full stretch and was rotating it for him to get some pictures when I heard an awful graunching noise, the guy laughed and pointed at a hose that had got caught, I went cold as it was the main hydraulic line to the jack, I rotated back, lowered it down and put the thing U/S for a stretched hose. Ignorance on his side was bliss.
But some people just had no fear, some of you who know the Ten will understand this, we had a guy that used to cling onto the drip strip above the rear galley door and then swing himself up onto the pylon... It still scares me to think of it.