Anyone here climb radio towers or know someone?

[Fusion]

My brother has been working on 200ft Vodafone radio towers over here and may be seeking the same job in the US in the next couple years. Last week he was on a wind turbine with the blades flying 100mph a couple feet above his head.

Would like to know what certification is needed, what sallary can be expected and how hard it is to find a job in this sector.

[mrsleeve]

should not be hard to find upper 5 figures into low six with overtime, putting wind mills up with experience. Your never home though and always chasing the next job. They are building a shit ton of Wind farms all over the place right now so its lucrative work if you can get it

[willworkfore30s]

A very close friend of mine does this for a living. He has recently hired two climbers under him and I imagine will keep doing that as long as the business is sufficient. If you'd like I can talk to him and get you his contact info. I'm sure he would be glad to talk to you about certification and stuff.

[Fusion]

^ That would be very much appreciated.

[Nick_S]

That picture made me dizzy. I'm a waffleswaffleswaffleswaffleswaffles. I'll stay on the ground thank you.

[Habla]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgO4Gd4RhvM

Be safe!

[cormier]

Ya seriously that an intense picture. Im gonna have nightmares. Best of luck!

Edit: I almost puked watching that video. Thats the most intense shit I've ever seen

[slaterd]

Vertigo like a mother. I get vertigo real bad, so I'd freeze up like a bitch up there.

[Fusion]

Holy shit. Can't believe he can be up there without safety lines.
On my brother's pic, you can see that rail in the middle, they put a safty lock in there and it works like a zip-tie, only letting you move up.

Same here, I get vertigo on a two story building.

[Vivek]

Wow, pic in OP is like sitting on the top of your house compared to that video. For quite a few seconds he was just standing on that little light thing 1760 feet up while he hooked on his safety line.

[slaterd]

Wow, pic in OP is like sitting on the top of your house compared to that video. For quite a few seconds he was just standing on that little light thing 1760 feet up while he hooked on his safety line.

A gust of wind is a tower climber's worst nightmare.

[cormier]

Holy shit. Can't believe he can be up there without safety lines.
On my brother's pic, you can see that rail in the middle, they put a safty lock in there and it works like a zip-tie, only letting you move up.

Leave it to the EU to have good safety innovations lol -- the video basically says they're too lazy to be hooking and un hooking all the time on this side of the pond

[mrsleeve]

Leave it to the EU to have good safety innovations lol -- the video basically says they're too lazy to be hooking and un hooking all the time on this side of the pond

NO we have the same things in the US on many of the NEW towers. Its not that they are too lazy to be doing it. Its just that it would take too much time and stamina for them to be constantly hooking and unhooking and thus exposing them to much much more time at those heights and wearing them out before they even get up there to do their job.

[Fusion]

It's a "slide" mechanism, not sure what the pro's call it. You hook up at the bottom and the safety slider thing follows you in the rail and "clicks" at intervals so that if you fall, you only drop a couple feet, without hooking/unhooking all the time. The tower in the video seems to have too many segments to allow it to be built in.
I think I saw a NatGeo doc about that tower, except they were showing how they replace the tip. Crazy shit.

[MasukBMW]

Kinda related, we just finished this up, it was a very cool project, and from what I heard they plan to implement several of these in the New England area soon

http://www.turnerconstruction.com/experience/project/16F5/wind-technology-testing-center