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   john7g | Jun 08, 2008 02:47pm | #1

   I think it's cool but I wonder how many people get freaked by being able to look through the decking like that.  I know DW wouldn't use it. 

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   EricPaulson | Jun 08, 2008 03:28pm | #3

   I can remember trying to get a realtor or a prospect up a set of temp steps with open risers............then the time on a bike (cycle) ride we hit the steel grate bridge! Yikes![email protected]

    

    

    

    

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   McDesign | Jun 08, 2008 02:49pm | #2

   Cool!

   Going to read all that with breakfast.

   Forrewt - built a bridge in another life once

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   segundo | Jun 08, 2008 04:41pm | #4

   i love it. i think it is a great example of architecture and design.

   i have to comment on the following posts, as a person who works at height surrounded by other people working at height i forget there are those who are bothered by it.

   i remember when my boys were young, we went camping at Jalama beach

   http://www.mapquest.com/

   if you look at the map and switch to aerial and zoom in you can see the river/creek and the train tracks going over it. in order to hike up the creek you have to cross over to the north side (campsite is south) and my favorite way is to climb the steel below the train tracks.

   now mind you my boys have been taught to cllimb since they were young, plus like any normal boy natural climbers, and you climb up but not to high and then crawl or walk the steel (ironworkers call it "cooning the steel") to the other side and climb down, and there is water underneath so even if you fall you are ok as long as you don't fall close to either abuttment. it was all adult supervised, well i was there anyway.

   so we get hiking up this creek and find of all things a beaver damn, it is cool i didn't even know they existed in california we are all excited and can't wait to tell others.

   we go back with friends and the boys start leading the way and they just climb up on that steel like they know what they are doing, the friends stand at the bottom and say no, sorry can't do it. kids 8 - 11 can do it but friends are to scared.