|
 This was definitely not a job for vertigo sufferers and was often done by the
blind.
Imagine a giant mouse wheel, balanced at the highest point (up to 50m) of an
almost built cathedral and you've got an idea of what a treadmill looked like.
The operator would trudge for hours, turning the treadmill which moved the
winch on a crane.
It was monotonous and dangerous because if the treadmill was damaged by the
weather, or badly constructed it could come crashing down.
|
