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Old 10-08-2008, 10:31 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Dealing with Fear of Heights

Back in my FECC days the tallest things I ever had to wrap were computer mainframes. They might occassionally go about 7' tall. Most of the time my feet never left the ground. Thank God, cause I had a "fear of heights". But now that has changed since our recent carreer change!

I had to look fear in the face and conquer it, or get in trouble for not tarping the loads. I like the first option better since the second was not an option. Well at first I was relutant to try it, but now I enjoy every chance to get high that I can atop of my load! LOL Tarping, I'm talkn tarps here!
Disclaimer: Please say NO to drugs! They are bad for you!!!

Below are photos of the tallest load we've done. We loaded it today. Its recycled body parts of a jet. Loading was quite interesting. Jackstands had to be custom built as they loaded the crates atop of each other. Then the crates were screwed together. After that it was our turn to strap and tarp the load. We are stacked 13' high!

You will see the progress of loading from setting the top crate (24'x4'x2.5' to finished tarp job along with some gutted out Airbus jets. Kind of a sad sight to see a once majestic bird end up this way!
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