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Climbing cell phone/broadcast towers has to be up there for scariest jobs.
Posted on 1/5/19 at 10:10 am
Posted on 1/5/19 at 10:10 am
1999 foot tower being climbed in South Dakota
Dude climbing cell phone tower under old OSHA rules, barely using the safety hooks
Climbing 1700 foot tower with weird music
I'd have to get paid at least $200,000 a year minimum to do this, maybe even more.
Dude climbing cell phone tower under old OSHA rules, barely using the safety hooks
Climbing 1700 foot tower with weird music
I'd have to get paid at least $200,000 a year minimum to do this, maybe even more.
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Posted on 1/5/19 at 10:11 am to Parmen
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I'd have to get paid at least $200,000 a year minimum to do this, maybe even more.
Could not pay me enough.
Posted on 1/5/19 at 10:12 am to Parmen
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$200,000
Nobody on the OT is going to take a pay cut to do that job.
Posted on 1/5/19 at 10:13 am to Major Dutch Schaefer
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Could not pay me enough.
I get nauseous just watching the videos. Especially when one of those towers has pegs without hooks on the sides.
Those are brave men who do dangerous work so I can shitpost online on my phone.
Posted on 1/5/19 at 10:14 am to Parmen
I'm terrified of heights. To be honest, once I got higher than 100 feet above the ground, an additional 1,000 to 2,000 feet wouldn't make that big of a difference to me.
Posted on 1/5/19 at 10:14 am to BayouBandit24
I used to climb 1500 foot towers.
Only buckled in when stopped for a rest or work.
Young and dumb......
BTW I was paid by the foot for climbing, but nothing for coming down.
Only buckled in when stopped for a rest or work.
Young and dumb......
BTW I was paid by the foot for climbing, but nothing for coming down.
Posted on 1/5/19 at 10:14 am to Parmen
We used to climb a radio tower as kids at night, very stupid on our part.
We would go up several hundred feet
Dumb arse kids
We would go up several hundred feet
Dumb arse kids
Posted on 1/5/19 at 10:15 am to Parmen
I get this tingling feeling down in my abdomnen when watching heights like that. Someone should build a drone to work on those towers.
Posted on 1/5/19 at 10:18 am to Parmen
They better start a "More Women in Tower Climbing Repairs" initiative started out of the gate to make sure they even it out for that pay.
Posted on 1/5/19 at 10:18 am to ItzMe1972
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I used to climb 1500 foot towers.
Only buckled in when stopped for a rest or work.
Young and dumb......
BTW I was paid by the foot for climbing, but nothing for coming down.
Some of these towers look like you could just have a helicopter dangle you down on a rope...
Also the Earth looks flat as frick from up there.
Posted on 1/5/19 at 10:20 am to Parmen
I know someone & he makes even more than that but he is never home. Worse than turnarounds bc the travel never ends.
Posted on 1/5/19 at 10:25 am to LSUAngelHere1
Also once you're on a tower that goes higher than 1776 feet, like that 1999 foot one in South Dakota, you're higher than the top of the World Trade Center (the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere).
Posted on 1/5/19 at 10:28 am to Parmen
How about this one:
Posted on 1/5/19 at 10:29 am to t00f
Why though? Just tear the whole thing down.
Posted on 1/5/19 at 10:33 am to Parmen
No idea but he is up there for a reason.
Posted on 1/5/19 at 10:34 am to Parmen
I'd be fine with everything except the grabs going up the actual antenna. Seems there should be blocking on the ends to prevent the carabiner from sliding off during a fall.
Posted on 1/5/19 at 10:42 am to Parmen
How do towers this big get built? I know there aren't any cranes that can lift pieces that high
Posted on 1/5/19 at 10:53 am to CatsGoneWild
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How do towers this big get built? I know there aren't any cranes that can lift pieces that high
I always assumed like this scene in Ten Commandments when they erected the obelisk.
Posted on 1/5/19 at 10:53 am to Parmen
Cousin did that for a living. Said your legs really had to be in shape. Rested by leaning backwards. He wasn't scared of heights, obviously, said something about it you are over 50 feet up you are gonna die anyways, so... Nope, not me.
Posted on 1/5/19 at 11:06 am to Parmen
My ballsack just sucked into my stomach watching that
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