I'm sure most of you know this already but, I work at small theme park in south Georgia, running a ride called Skycoaster, which is basically a giant 180ft belly-to-earth swing. This equipment requires regular inspection and maintenance. Today, as I do every week/month, I climbed the tower to perform monthly inspection (which requires checking the cables that hang from it as well, kinda difficult). I took some pics with my phone camera:
Here's a panoramic view of the top catwalk (it's a phone option that isn't very accurate, but hey):
To my right from there below me is the Cheetah, a wooden coaster:
This is what it looks like straight down:
Me hanging my legs over the edge at the crowd below:
The water park:
My co-worker, peeking over from the very top:
He brought his camera too:
Me, looking very dignified:
After I climbed down, I had to let the cables go (they were tied to the tower via nilon rope). One of the cables has a 50-60 lb. weight attached to it, and the rope was stuck to where I wrapped it. When I un-did it, the thing almost fell down were it not for my fingers getting wrapped up in the nylon rope and being pinned down to the stairs. Ouch.
Nothing broke, but I bruised my poor pinky
I know Alto's been here before, never seen him though.
Here's a panoramic view of the top catwalk (it's a phone option that isn't very accurate, but hey):
To my right from there below me is the Cheetah, a wooden coaster:
This is what it looks like straight down:
Me hanging my legs over the edge at the crowd below:
The water park:
My co-worker, peeking over from the very top:
He brought his camera too:
Me, looking very dignified:
After I climbed down, I had to let the cables go (they were tied to the tower via nilon rope). One of the cables has a 50-60 lb. weight attached to it, and the rope was stuck to where I wrapped it. When I un-did it, the thing almost fell down were it not for my fingers getting wrapped up in the nylon rope and being pinned down to the stairs. Ouch.
Nothing broke, but I bruised my poor pinky
I know Alto's been here before, never seen him though.
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