Who Wants A Job!

[bridgeman]

Granted its not 1600' off the ground but once every two years I have to climb 80' down a ladder from a catwalk to check the bearings on a river crossing bridge, theres a cage around it but I have this nightmare about missing a rung and slipping about 3/4 of the way back up and my chin catching about every third one on the way down. Bad thing about it is I'm 6'6" and the cage isn't quite big enough so I rap my shins a number of times each trip, two piers same height so when I get rested up from the first trip I gotta do it over again. Nobody else on the other teams wants or will do it so its my baby when its due for a look. As far as going up that ladder with that toolbelt in tow forget it! You'd think they would rig a pulley with a rope to get it up there.