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CaptainBlowhole
09-16-2010, 05:33 PM
This may not be a job for you! Holy jeebus!!!


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PapaBear
09-16-2010, 05:57 PM
I could only make it 1:25 in before I started getting woozy.

Tenbatsuzen
09-16-2010, 07:15 PM
I could only make it 1:25 in before I started getting woozy.

1:40 for me. All I'm thinking is, "Why no safety rope?"

KC2OSO
09-16-2010, 07:44 PM
1:40 for me. All I'm thinking is, "Why no safety rope?"

My notchya is all a quiver. Why no parachute? It's just a base jump.

Space Edge
09-16-2010, 08:49 PM
1:40 for me. All I'm thinking is, "Why no safety rope?"

He is wearing a harness , you don't see it until a little bit further in but he stops a few times hooks in and takes a break.

KnoxHarrington
09-16-2010, 09:17 PM
He is wearing a harness , you don't see it until a little bit further in but he stops a few times hooks in and takes a break.

Yeah, but only during breaks. Otherwise, when he's actually moving, he's not wearing anything.

I love that they're wearing helmets. Yeah, fall off a 1,700 foot high tower, I'm sure that helmet's gonna help.

PapaBear
09-16-2010, 09:21 PM
I love that they're wearing helmets. Yeah, fall off a 1,700 foot high tower, I'm sure that helmet's gonna help.
I'd imagine the high winds would cause a great danger in banging your head against shit.

spoon
09-16-2010, 09:33 PM
That is nothing short of insane. I love how he gets to the top and has a calm one handed light grip as he wipes something off his shoe!

I wouldn't trust that structure to hold my weight most of the weigh, especially at the top with his buddy right behind him on the small pipe. These guys are f'n nuts.

razorboy
09-16-2010, 09:51 PM
Am I the only person who isn't scared of heights in my every day life, but has nightmares where heights terrify me?

midwestjeff
09-17-2010, 04:24 AM
FUCK THAT!
I'm still shaking just from watching that shit.
I can't believe the way that guy just nonchalantly hooks up his safety thing when he gets to the top.
I actually tried to tell him several times to get a tighter grip. I don't think he heard me.
Cant' they just use a helicopter or something to get up there?

CountryBob
09-17-2010, 04:42 AM
Holy SHit! My palms are sweating now!
Those dudes deserve to be paid huge amounts of money. I kinda wished they would have shown the decent - maybe speeded up :wacko:

A.J.
09-17-2010, 06:22 AM
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TripleSkeet
09-17-2010, 08:57 AM
Im not afraid of heights at all but thats just fucking ridiculous. Theres no way I would do that job without a parachute strapped to my back daily.

Space Edge
09-17-2010, 08:58 AM
Yeah, but only during breaks. Otherwise, when he's actually moving, he's not wearing anything.

I love that they're wearing helmets. Yeah, fall off a 1,700 foot high tower, I'm sure that helmet's gonna help.

They said during the climbing he could hook in after every step but it would take forever if he climbed one rung then hooked in.

Jujubees2
09-17-2010, 09:08 AM
Okay, now how do you climb down?

Imagine getting to the top and realizing you forgot a tool in the car.

Snacks
09-17-2010, 09:11 AM
They said during the climbing he could hook in after every step but it would take forever if he climbed one rung then hooked in.

I dont understand how this passes any kind of inspection or safety regulation? Watching him climb up that and have to maneuver over one ledge to get to the tower while carrying a 30lb bag of tools. Thats awful, how man deaths a year occur doing this type of job? They need to find a better way to build it and get to the top.

Space Edge
09-17-2010, 10:16 AM
WTF how come they removed the video ?

PapaBear
09-17-2010, 07:20 PM
WTF how come they removed the video ?
THIS (http://www.theonlineengineer.org/TheOLEBLOG/?p=561) is why.

ozzie
09-17-2010, 07:55 PM
Video is still up on yahoo (http://video.yahoo.com/network/101149635?v=8244494&l=5144241)


I climbed cell towers for a while in my early 20's.

Nothing even close to this high, but high enough.

We were hired to test the lines. Boss told me that the local rednecks sometimes liked to try to sight their high powered rifles by trying to take out the tower lights, and would sometimes miss and hit the cables causing signal loss. (There were other reasons why this could happen, but the others are boring)

In order to test the cables, we'd have to drop the calls on a bank of connections for a few minutes, so rather than interupting daytime service, we'd go out a few hours before dawn while it was still dark. (If your call suddenly drops at 5 a.m., this could be why)

At first the dark freaked me out being up there... until I had to go up in the daylight. At least at night you lost some perspective of how high off the ground you were. It was easier just to focus on the tower in front of you. The towers were always out in remote areas, so the only lights were from the shack directly below. In the daylight, you could see everything, and it was impossible not to take a look at the horizon, or worse, straight down at the ground.

And I didn't have to carry a ton of tools with me. Just a shorting plug and a dummy load, and a pair of pliers in case the connector was on too tight.

I was always ok while I was on the main structure. But to get to the ends of the cables, I had to squirrel out onto each of the three "arms" at the top, where there was nothing underneath but earth. Thats when I wouldn't move while I was un-tethered. But going up and down was always free climbing.

It paid well, but the hours sucked, and it would take hours to relax and go to sleep afterwards.

It sounded like a good paying job I could do in the wee hours and still go to school, but I didn't last but three months, and recommended a buddy to the boss to take my place.

He quit the second night out.

Suspect Chin
09-17-2010, 08:32 PM
It paid well, but the hours sucked, and it would take hours to relax and go to sleep afterwards.


How much we talking? If it it isn't at least $150k, you're insane.

CaptainBlowhole
09-18-2010, 03:53 PM
I imagine the tower sways in the wind a bit, and whever I am on anything that's a little unstable, I freeze up. No way could I do this! Even if that upper pole was 2 feet off the ground I couldn't do it! When this guy transitioned to the pole from the tower, I felt my whole body tighten up.

Jayw
09-18-2010, 04:12 PM
Whip It. Whip It Good. Crack That Whip.

DapottSci
03-16-2011, 01:53 PM
Im not afraid of heights but felt vertigo strongly while watching this video. I wonder why they couldnt have made the tower more climber friendly all the way to the top?

One good thing, you fall off that tower and you wont have to worry about being paralyzed for the rest of your life. Fall from a lower height and you do.

Andy
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IamFogHat
03-16-2011, 01:56 PM
I realized this summer I was afraid of heights when I went up a fucking tourist lighthouse. I never had a problem with heights until recently apparently, what the fuck is the deal with that?

disneyspy
03-16-2011, 01:58 PM
I realized this summer I was afraid of heights when I went up a fucking tourist lighthouse. I never had a problem with heights until recently apparently, what the fuck is the deal with that?

maybe you were afraid the house would be so light it would float away?

Judge Smails
03-16-2011, 02:16 PM
maybe you were afraid the house would be so light it would float away?

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Furtherman
03-18-2011, 11:09 AM
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Melrapuo
03-18-2011, 01:34 PM
I don't have a fear of heights because I'm afraid of falling. I have a fear of heights because I get the impulse to jump off for no apparent reason. It happened to me when I was in a hotel about 7 stories up in SC. Freaked me out.

Furtherman
03-18-2011, 01:40 PM
I don't have a fear of heights because I'm afraid of falling. I have a fear of heights because I get the impulse to jump off for no apparent reason. It happened to me when I was in a hotel about 7 stories up in SC. Freaked me out.

That's the evolutionary memory of our ancestors who eventually had to jump down from trees, or jump over rivers.... jump to get places.


At least, that's what I heard Ron say. Might be a good theory to look up.

spoon
03-24-2011, 09:53 PM
More fears for foody! Am I right Dude!?

:lol:

KC2OSO
03-24-2011, 09:57 PM
This is just bad English.

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spoon
03-24-2011, 09:59 PM
This is just bad English.

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jonyrotn
05-06-2011, 12:18 PM
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nope...

A.J.
05-18-2011, 09:26 AM
I'm locking this thread because I'm tired of it getting bumped daily by the fucking spammers.