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The Spire, Lights

  • 16-12-2014 11:48am
    #1
    Pippy1976
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,047 ✭✭✭


    I've noticed for the past month or so, but it could actually be longer, that the lights aren't working on top of the Spire.

    Anyone know why? Think of all the money the darn thing cost and now the bulbs are gone!


Comments

  • #2
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Hate to be the lad going up there with the ladder to change the bulb.


  • #3
    Pippy1976
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,047 ✭✭✭Pippy1976


    The_Valeyard wrote: »
    Hate to be the lad going up there with the ladder to change the bulb.

    Ha! I know! I thought the exact same thing. I'd be cackin' me pants if it'wer me!


  • #4
    Irishcrx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,861 ✭✭✭Irishcrx


    It's actually one of the lads in my job that goes up the spire to do it, they love the climb apparently..


  • #5
    Pippy1976
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,047 ✭✭✭Pippy1976


    Irishcrx wrote: »
    It's actually one of the lads in my job that goes up the spire to do it, they love the climb apparently..

    Can you ask him why he hasn't changed the bulbs this time, please?


  • #6
    The Peanut
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,169 ✭✭✭The Peanut


    Pippy1976 wrote: »
    Can you ask him why he hasn't changed the bulbs this time, please?

    Contract exspired.


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  • #7
    Pippy1976
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,047 ✭✭✭Pippy1976


    The Peanut wrote: »
    Contract exspired.

    His contract or the bulb's?


  • #8
    Mr. CooL ICE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,672 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    How many electricians does it take to change a light bulb in the Spire?


  • #9
    Lenin Skynard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,970 ✭✭✭Lenin Skynard


    The_Valeyard wrote: »
    Hate to be the lad going up there with the ladder to change the bulb.

    I saw the lad change it once and he hadn't even got a ladder, just a load of kitchen chairs stacked on top of one another.


  • #10
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,471 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Nicolas Cage wrote: »
    How many electricians does it take to change a light bulb in the Spire?

    One to change the bulb.


  • #11
    Duff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,561 ✭✭✭Duff


    A magnet suit would be quicker than a ladder, surely?


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  • #12
    franer1970
    Registered Users Posts: 336 ✭✭franer1970


    The maintenance contract went out to tender yesterday.
    Response deadline is 2nd February, so I wouldn't expect any lights for many months to come.


  • #13
    MugMugs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,875 ✭✭✭✭MugMugs


    IS it the aviation beacon you're reffering to ?


  • #14
    Highflyer13
    Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭Highflyer13


    The spire should be taken down. As a major monument its completely uninspiring. Its a daft looking yoke and to me looks like a needle representing the junkies in the area who frequently use it as a meeting point to meet their dealers. In the end its just a big pole. Surely we can do better than this........


  • #15
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,728 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    Fibre optics should have been the way to go. Have fibre optics going through it to the top, but the bulb would only have to be changed at the base.


  • #16
    MugMugs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,875 ✭✭✭✭MugMugs


    Highflyer13 wrote: »
    The spire should be taken down. As a major monument its completely uninspiring. Its a daft looking yoke and to me looks like a needle representing the junkies in the area who frequently use it as a meeting point to meet their dealers. In the end its just a big pole. Surely we can do better than this........

    I see what you did there.......


  • #17
    Odyssey 2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,065 ✭✭✭✭Odyssey 2005


    Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »
    Fibre optics should have been the way to go. Have fibre optics going through it to the top, but the bulb would only have to be changed at the base.

    Carefull there Badly Drunk Boy, you'll get a yellow card for making sence.:p


  • #18
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,724 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    Odyssey 2005 wrote: »
    Carefull there Badly Drunk Boy, you'll get a yellow card for making sence.:p

    No chance of that for you :D


  • #19
    conorhal
    Registered Users Posts: 7,018 ✭✭✭conorhal


    Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »
    Fibre optics should have been the way to go. Have fibre optics going through it to the top, but the bulb would only have to be changed at the base.

    Unless it's the worst designed structure in the world I'd imagined that the light at the top could be winched up or down from the bottom to change the bulb. Why would you design the structure any other way?


  • #20
    Pippy1976
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,047 ✭✭✭Pippy1976


    conorhal wrote: »
    Unless it's the worst designed structure in the world I'd imagined that the light at the top could be winched up or down from the bottom to change the bulb. Why would you design the structure any other way?

    Agreed! I actually think it is changed from the base.

    Every morning without fail I see a bunch of Corporation workers set up a little tent there to do.. God knows what....


  • #21
    wilhelm roentgen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 256 ✭✭wilhelm roentgen


    conorhal wrote: »
    Unless it's the worst designed structure in the world I'd imagined that the light at the top could be winched up or down from the bottom to change the bulb. Why would you design the structure any other way?

    It was built by Radley Engineering in their workshop in Dungarvan, their Managing director said when interviewed by a local paper that in Engineering terms it was the equivalent of building a nuclear submarine…………...….what a twát


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  • #22
    Philo Beddoe
    Registered Users Posts: 560 ✭✭✭Philo Beddoe


    wilhelm roentgen wrote: »
    It was built by Radley Engineering in their workshop in Dungarvan, their Managing director said when interviewed by a local paper that in Engineering terms it was the equivalent of building a nuclear submarine…………...….what a twát

    It's just like a nuclear submarine. Except without the nuclear reactor, the engine, the ability to manoeuvre underwater etc. etc.


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