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Exactly. I'm a tree work junkie yet ax men was literally unwatchable.

Yeah it is a cool show! Of course they try to do the TV reality show thing of injecting non existent danger into the process multiple times, but very cool anyway. Always interesting to hear your perspective on tree work vs welding.

Looks like you can watch the skyscraper vid on that website in a few days, it just premiered on tv today.

Here you geaux, the stadium! https://www.sciencechannel.com/tv-shows/building-giants/full-episodes/worlds-greatest-stadium

That is f'g nuts. Somewhere back a few hundred posts, I think you likened tree work to welding at least in terms of learning it and maybe that each has it's ins and outs, iirc. Welding seems super technical compared to tree work, imho.

Lol I've heard this new Falcons stadium was 1/2 empty for much of this season due to fan anger over NFL players kneeling for anthem.:O

Anyone enjoying this thread would like 2 great TV docs I watched on Science channel, the series is called Building Giants. One show was about constructing a 1000' high skyscraper recently built in NYC on a very small footprint- no room for cranes in the street, so after using a tower crane...

Cool link, thanks.

Amazing pics of an incredible project. Thanks for posting

The joke always was, as folks are carrying those heavy mofos thru the bush, "if this is a young block, I'd hate to see the fully grown ones!!"

Probably right. Its all about the angles. Never the less the psi on those tips must be intense

Musta been hell to extract those grapple tongs.

College credit available with this thread;)

Excellent info there, thanks!

Interesting dead man stakes. I can see using those in tree work when 1 wouldn't seem to be enough Re sailing, why have they switched back to ropes and other lower tech materials or devices? Due to weight?

Crazy stuff!! 50mph in a dang sail boat! No wonder at all the crew wears crash helmets

Here's a vid on them. It's too long but skip around to check out these boats on foils https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBG1g8s3BT0

Have you seen the latest Americas Cup boats?? I think they are up on foils now. Completely radical stuff.

Good stuff, kyle