Scared of heights anyone ?

[THE_MASK]

Scared of heights anyone ? First time ever i had to turn a video off .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4IFYWkmwfk

Fullscreen is much worse .

[GoldenRivet]

been posted before...

still a heck of a job those guys have to do.:o

[Dowly]

Hehe, I remember that one. Someone posted it here few months back.

[krashkart]

I remember this one. Gets the palms a little sweaty. :haha:

[August]

If I were younger and healthier I'd do it. Those guys make some really good coin.

[Takeda Shingen]

Still makes my palms sweat.

[krashkart]

If I were younger and healthier I'd do it. Those guys make some really good coin.


Indeed they do. $1 per foot IIRC. :o

[Platapus]

I am surprised at the apparent lack of wind or tower movement at that height.

I guess when you are that high it really does not make much difference whether you are 200 feet up or 1000 feet up. One false step and it is good night.

Can you imagine doing this in the rain? :nope:

[Geno_Mariner]

I nearly threw up :doh: I would never want to go up that tower if there's nothing around me. If it had a cage of some sort, I'd be ok... somewhat :dead: But no way, I'd ever climb that tower.

[Task Force]

Im not scared of heights, but I definantly wouldnt do that job. Climbing on the side of a radio tower is my idea of a good job. lol

[UnderseaLcpl]

I was good right up until he got to the very top. I've fallen off way too many high things to trust my balance and grip with so little purchase to be found.

[Ducimus]

Required equipment to do this job:
http://www.ducimus.net/sh3/brassballs.jpg

[August]

If you know what you're doing and you have the right equipment it's no more dangerous than any other adventurous job. A lot more electricians have been killed on the job than tower climbers.

[Growler]

August, you're just saying that because you've jumped from airplanes at lower altitudes than the top of that tower.:D

[Krauter]

:o I started yelling at him to use the safety harness more when he started free climbing :oops:

[Matador.es]

Ow yeah, thats high!

The higest i do is:
http://94.100.116.112/1750001-1800000/1770701-1770800/1770724_5_3GNk.jpeg

You can see my lower leg at the bottom right of the photo. This was while heading back in cruising conditions after a regatta in The Netherlands.

Its just 22 meter of hight, but the smallest movement below will lead to mayor movement up there.
:salute:

[magic452]

When I worked at Magic Mountain amusement park in So. California we had an attraction called the Sky Tower. It stood about 300 Feet ( not quit a hundred meters).
There was a 30 foot flag pole on top and if the wind was blowing just right the flag would get tangled on the pole.

They liked the flag to fly out straight so when it got tangled someone had to go up and fix it. The guy that most often did this was not there that day and since I had done some work on the roof the the thing I volunteered.

Went up and untangled the flag, came back down and went straight to wardrobe for a change of cloths, we wore uniforms.

I did this exactly ONCE. ( insert scared $h**less emocon here) The tower would move about 5 to 7 feet with the wind and the flag pole even more than that.

Magic

PS was just reading the username thread, not hard to see where mine came from. :know:

[papa_smurf]

Thats impressive, wonder what you'll need to work on the worlds tallest building; the Burj Khalifa at a mere 2716.5 feet:o

[Takeda Shingen]

If you know what you're doing and you have the right equipment it's no more dangerous than any other adventurous job. A lot more electricians have been killed on the job than tower climbers.

Statistics would disagree with that. According to them, at least in 2004, tower climbing ranks as one of the most dangerous professions in America.

http://www.wirelessestimator.com/t_content.cfm?pagename=Climber%20Fatalities

[August]

Statistics would disagree with that. According to them, at least in 2004, tower climbing ranks as one of the most dangerous professions in America.

http://www.wirelessestimator.com/t_content.cfm?pagename=Climber%20Fatalities

Well those are interesting statistics Takeda but I didn't say per capita and I also didn't limit it to cell phone tower climbers which have the poorest safety record of all the tower climbing industries.

BTW the video in the OP is a Radio tower.

[ETR3(SS)]

I'd climb a ELF tower no problem.:O:

[Spoon 11th]

Indeed they do. $1 per foot IIRC. :o
They have 2 feet, right? So that's $2. Nice. :woot:

[RickC Sniper]

Tak, interesting statistics.

My respect goes out to the ones who build it in the first place.

Construction is a dangerous business. Maintenance afterwords should be a cakewalk.


Crane collapse in Wisconsin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI-ENqgjQXM

[Sledgehammer427]

:o I started yelling at him to use the safety harness more when he started free climbing :oops:

i couldn't close the video until he hooked it up...even on a computer screen it makes me dizzy
and I'm the guy who would stick his head out the sunroof of a car at speed.

[antikristuseke]

right now I'd take on any job that offers better pay and more sensible hours.

[nikimcbee]

yes