Anyone here climb radio towers or know someone?

[CarsSuck]

I'll leave this here for those that have an hour to kill.

http://video.pbs.org/video/2238342648

[cormier]

fuck. that.

Amen. Especially at 14$/hr

[RUFFLZ]

fuck. that.

[EclipseMTL]

I JUST turned down a job that does this two weeks ago. Company is called High Tower Solutions and is based outta Elkhorn NE. Starting pay is 14$, work sun up to sun down. Travel all across the States Monday through Friday. The basics of the job were to take a digital caliper and measure every bolt, nut, cross member, everything. They measure and blue print each tower for Verizon mostly, seeing if the towers are structurally sound to add another antenna for cell phones. The first tower I had to climb for the interview was a 300 foot supported tower, in a freaking dress shirt and pants. Got to the top and saw lightning, climbed down quick, but had a bad feeling in my stomach after that, so declined it.

The jobs are out there, and they normally set you up for certs and whats needed. You can probably get set up quick just because no one normally likes to do this work.

[Farbin Kaiber]

I know we have a member that likes to climb and jump off of things like this, but he doesn't do it for work...

[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

[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.

[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.

[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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[slaterd]

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

[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

[Habla]

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

Be safe!