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Posted on 1/5/19 at 11:15 am to CatsGoneWild
The KPLC tower is around 1500 feet I believe and when it was built we used a 500 ton hydraulic crane with around 300 foot of boom to build the base. Then another contractor came in and built a crane that attached to the base and built itself up and it went similar to the sky scraper cranes do. It was pretty cool to see pictures of.
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Posted on 1/5/19 at 11:22 am to Parmen
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I'd have to get paid at least $200,000 per step minimum
Fify
Posted on 1/5/19 at 11:23 am to Parmen
Underwater welding too
Posted on 1/5/19 at 11:27 am to biggsc
Makes my palms sweat.
Have 2 phobias, heights and closed in. Don't fly and elevators aren't kind
Have 2 phobias, heights and closed in. Don't fly and elevators aren't kind
Posted on 1/5/19 at 11:33 am to Parmen
I got queasy looking at this.
Posted on 1/5/19 at 11:34 am to Parmen
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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.
Is this an observation or a suggestion? If a suggestion, I'd say:
1) holding a helicopter steady enough to change a light bulb would be extremely difficult, if not nearly impossible in anything more than a 5 mph wind.
2) given the number of towers out there, if this were the practice, there would be a few fatalities annually, from helicopter malfunctions or wind gusts
Also, the Earth will look flat from much higher as well. The true shape can be observed from, I think, 70,000 feet and higher.
Posted on 1/5/19 at 11:40 am to Parmen
The height isn’t the problem. It’s being worn the frick out climbing that thing
Posted on 1/5/19 at 12:14 pm to wfallstiger
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2 phobias, heights and closed in
Boy would you hate my job!
Posted on 1/5/19 at 12:15 pm to Parmen
I used to be a cellphone tower welder but I drug up because it wasn’t exciting enough
I’m an underwater welder now
I’m an underwater welder now
Posted on 1/5/19 at 12:43 pm to geauxtigers6492
Probably so, in fact, no doubt
Posted on 1/5/19 at 1:29 pm to Parmen
Once even you get past about 150’ isn’t it all the same??
Posted on 1/5/19 at 1:52 pm to Parmen
its not the fall that kills you, it the sudden stop at the end
jobs like this are why we are supposed to already have personal wearable jet packs to fly around with
jobs like this are why we are supposed to already have personal wearable jet packs to fly around with
This post was edited on 1/5/19 at 1:53 pm
Posted on 1/5/19 at 2:06 pm to STLDawg
Used to climb stairs to the NWS radar dome at Ryan airport. My knees would shake after about sixty feet up.
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Posted on 1/5/19 at 2:38 pm to Parmen
Wind turbines too. Some dudes got killed up there when a fire broke out a few years back. Can't think of too many shittier ways to die.
Posted on 1/5/19 at 2:44 pm to Parmen
Some of you from NELA will remember when KNOE's tower in Columbia fell. At the time it fell it was the tallest tower in North America at 1,989 feet. One guy died when it fell. Here is a facebook post about it with pics:
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KNOE Tower collapse On March 21, 1997, KNOE-FM suffered a catastrophic collapse of its broadcast tower. The 1,989 foot tower, roughly 545 feet taller than Chicago's Sears Tower, collapsed as a result of a maintenance crew's failure to install a temporary support structure during the replacement of diagonal braces. Of the three workers on the tower at the time of the collapse, one was killed, one fell into a satellite dish about 12 feet above the ground, and one was thrown clear and walked away basically unharmed. The workers were together about 200 feet up the tower when it collapsed. The tower, whose primary tenant was then- KNOE-TV, was also used by Louisiana Public Broadcasting. After operating from temporary facilities for more than a year, KNOE-FM's permanent replacement tower was ready for use in June 1998 and licensed for operation by the FCC on September 15, 1998.
Posted on 1/5/19 at 3:25 pm to messyjesse
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Wind turbines too. Some dudes got killed up there when a fire broke out a few years back. Can't think of too many shittier ways to die.
dont see how thats allowed by osha
they are so up everyones asses over rediculous safety BS yet there wasnt an escape plan to repell down by rope or have a mandatory helecopter on stand by for emergency evac?
Posted on 1/5/19 at 3:41 pm to Parmen
That red bag wasn’t carrying his tools. It was carrying his massive balls.
Posted on 1/5/19 at 3:44 pm to Parmen
I hunted off of one this morning. Not making this up
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