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Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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< on 2/6/2008 3:53 AM >
|  | | | place weight on structure elements, while trying to stay off of secondary elements like the grating or middle of the stairs.
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blackhawk
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| |  | Re: how to properly walk on sketchy catwalks
<Reply # 1 on 2/6/2008 4:00 PM >
| | | | Or better yet, don't!
Most times the grating is the least of your worries.
That grate you picture still looks sound. Always use hand grips whenever available, expect structures to fail, always maintain at least one handhold, unless balanced and positive about your footing.
Don't get so fancy you distracts yourself or feel safe though... keep it simple and stay focused.
Word; attachment points!!!
Beware of anything anchored into block or especially concrete!
It can fail with no warning what so ever, leave you hanging in the air... briefly.
Corrosion invisibly erodes the anchors over the years.
Beware of heavy objects mounted to walls or above you. The slightest touch can bring them crashing down sometimes. I barely escaped being pinned when a pipe brace broke free with a loose six foot long, 8 inch wide, steel pipe on it.
Just when I thought I was out... they pulled me back in.
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atomx
    
Location: Brighton, ON
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| | | Re: how to properly walk on sketchy catwalks
<Reply # 2 on 2/7/2008 1:15 AM >
| | | | Left your fellow explorer go first.
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nohbdy
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| | Re: how to properly walk on sketchy catwalks
<Reply # 3 on 2/7/2008 1:36 AM >
| | | | you dont have to worry too much if its still active, even if it is 240' above the ground
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| | Re: how to properly walk on sketchy catwalks
<Reply # 4 on 2/7/2008 3:22 AM >
| | | | Posted by blackhawk
Or better yet, don't!
Most times the grating is the least of your worries.
That grate you picture still looks sound. Always use hand grips whenever available, expect structures to fail, always maintain at least one handhold, unless balanced and positive about your footing.
Don't get so fancy you distracts yourself or feel safe though... keep it simple and stay focused.
Word; attachment points!!!
Beware of anything anchored into block or especially concrete!
It can fail with no warning what so ever, leave you hanging in the air... briefly.
Corrosion invisibly erodes the anchors over the years.
Beware of heavy objects mounted to walls or above you. The slightest touch can bring them crashing down sometimes. I barely escaped being pinned when a pipe brace broke free with a loose six foot long, 8 inch wide, steel pipe on it.
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I have to agree with every word of this...
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| |  | | | Re: how to properly walk on sketchy catwalks
<Reply # 5 on 2/7/2008 9:12 AM >
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i totally did this tonight...im such a dick. i was like if you go first, ill follow behind you, which i did. im a total pussy when it comes to walking on shit with 90 feet of nothing below me. luckily it was dark otherwise i wouldnt have done it at all.
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shellyl
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I have learned not sweat the petty things and not to pet the sweaty things.
| | Re: how to properly walk on sketchy catwalks
<Reply # 6 on 2/7/2008 2:42 PM >
| | | | Posted by blackhawk
Or better yet, don't!
Beware of heavy objects mounted to walls or above you. The slightest touch can bring them crashing down sometimes. I barely escaped being pinned when a pipe brace broke free with a loose six foot long, 8 inch wide, steel pipe on it.
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I have to agree also. Many look down but forget to look up. This hole was very obvious. After I climbed down I looked back up to this room and realized just how many more holes were there that I didn't see.
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nohbdy
Gender: Male
| | Re: how to properly walk on sketchy catwalks
<Reply # 7 on 2/8/2008 5:02 PM >
| | | | my rules for sketchy catwalks is the same for sketchy roofs
most of the time i dont do it if it looks bad, i had an incident a while back, cracked a few ribs
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blackhawk
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| | | Re: how to properly walk on sketchy catwalks
<Reply # 8 on 2/8/2008 5:30 PM >
| | | | Posted by shellyl
I have to agree also. Many look down but forget to look up. This hole was very obvious. After I climbed down I looked back up to this room and realized just how many more holes were there that I didn't see.
http://i161.photob...photo/agway042.jpg
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Sobering thought. I'm guilty of similar inattentiveness; there's a lot to take in, but you need to stayed focused on what your standing on (or soon to be), and what can fall on you that's above or beside you.
I hate hellholes, sometimes people deliberately camouflage them or they're tough to spot; beware of drop rugs, cardboard, tall grass outside, etc.
Remember Looney Tunes?
Posted by nohbdyshome
my rules for sketchy catwalks is the same for sketchy roofs
most of the time i dont do it if it looks bad, i had an incident a while back, cracked a few ribs
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Ouch. The sucks.
I barely outrun a collapsing wood floor once and grabbed a vertical beam before it fell through. fuck that!
Damn things give way fast, and most times one isn't so lucky... the beam was 2 or 3 steps away, dumb luck.
Just when I thought I was out... they pulled me back in.
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nohbdy
Gender: Male
| | Re: how to properly walk on sketchy catwalks
<Reply # 9 on 2/8/2008 5:38 PM >
| | | | i heard that 2 explorers died either last year or the year before because of a concrete floor giving why, i was never able to confirm it but stories like that scare me, im been on the 6th floor of really old buildings when the wind picks up and shit starts falling, every time that happens i twitch a little
i really dont like sketchy anything im standing on or is above me, sketchy walls im ok with unless the wall has pulled far away from the floor to the point you can see all the way down to the bass by putting your head next to it and looking down
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blackhawk
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| | | Re: how to properly walk on sketchy catwalks
<Reply # 10 on 2/8/2008 6:30 PM >
| | | | Posted by nohbdyshome
i heard that 2 explorers died either last year or the year before because of a concrete floor giving why, i was never able to confirm it but stories like that scare me, im been on the 6th floor of really old buildings when the wind picks up and shit starts falling, every time that happens i twitch a little
i really dont like sketchy anything im standing on or is above me, sketchy walls im ok with unless the wall has pulled far away from the floor to the point you can see all the way down to the bass by putting your head next to it and looking down
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Concrete can fail, even pros get killed like this. A collapsing concrete stairwell killed a surveying environmental engineer at Byberry sometime back, if memory serves me correctly. Concrete gives no warning what so ever, cracks in the concrete, lime marks and rebar rust staining may be visible, but just hint there may be damage.
Salt exposure is very hard on concrete structures as can just water it's self over time. Repeated freezing can heavily damage wet concrete over time.
Attachment points that rely on rebar or metal attachments are prime suspects, but these aren't always visible as in the case of a concrete stairs.
Most times your biggest worries with concrete are things that are mounted to it, or holes in it (floor), but anything goes at a strange site....
Just when I thought I was out... they pulled me back in.
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nohbdy
Gender: Male
| | Re: how to properly walk on sketchy catwalks
<Reply # 11 on 2/8/2008 7:25 PM >
| | | | ever see concrete catwalks?
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blackhawk
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| | | Re: how to properly walk on sketchy catwalks
<Reply # 12 on 2/9/2008 12:49 AM >
| | | | Posted by nohbdyshome
ever see concrete catwalks?
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Surely you jest?
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Cool, no?
Just when I thought I was out... they pulled me back in.
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nohbdy
Gender: Male
| | Re: how to properly walk on sketchy catwalks
<Reply # 13 on 2/9/2008 1:12 AM >
| | | | i mean the hanging in the air kind, i dont get out nearly as much as i should
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blackhawk
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| | | Re: how to properly walk on sketchy catwalks
<Reply # 14 on 2/9/2008 3:09 AM >
| | | | Posted by nohbdyshome
i mean the hanging in the air kind, i dont get out nearly as much as i should
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I know your thinking smaller, but this catwalk is "hanging in the air". Concrete is strong under compression, but weak under tension.
Concrete catwalks tend to be arches because of this; steel is needed for providing strength under tension.
I've seen concrete and brick covered steel ones at blast furnaces. They use the furnace bricks as a heat shield and concrete for traction.
Just when I thought I was out... they pulled me back in.
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Air
Location: Canada
| | Re: how to properly walk on sketchy catwalks
<Reply # 15 on 2/9/2008 3:22 AM >
| | | | There is a suspended walkway, about 8 meters up in the air at a glass plant I visited a while ago. It has a 2" thick grate, very stable, but at certain points there where huge holes, like some xenomorph acid blood had eaten through the floor. Needless to stay heeding warnings about corrosion should be taken seriously. Take you time when going up and down stairs and across walkways.
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Drake
Location: Knoxville Tn
Gender: Male
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| | Re: how to properly walk on sketchy catwalks
<Reply # 16 on 2/15/2008 11:54 PM >
| | | | I try to just stay away from catwalks if ever possible.
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Atomsk813
Location: Portland, OR
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| | | Re: how to properly walk on sketchy catwalks
<Reply # 17 on 2/28/2008 6:44 PM >
| | | | Luckily, I haven't had a problem with catwalks yet. I DID, however put a foot through EVERY SINGLE ROOF of EACH building at the flour mill. Or at least came dangerously close to it. Especially on the original 1918 building's roof, which is a very critical part of my way in to the place, so yeah. Luckily it sags a little, and you can see where the steel beams holding it up are. I still don't run across it, but I wish I could, just to get off of it faster.
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yota94
Location: AEQUITS.VERITAS. CALI.
Gender: Male
| | Re: how to properly walk on sketchy catwalks
<Reply # 18 on 3/1/2008 5:54 AM >
| | | | common sence?
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musket boy
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| | | | Re: how to properly walk on sketchy catwalks
<Reply # 19 on 3/1/2008 6:19 AM >
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