POV Helmet Camera shows serviceman climbing to top of 1768 foot Radio Antenna

[TheNocturnalEgyptian]

http://video.yahoo.com/watch/8244494/21915033


That's a very long "commute" to work....They go through a lot of effort to keep these towers serviced.

[Plastic]

Definitely and i mean definitely not a job for me

I feel sick just by watching this video :puke :puke :puke



I nearly fell over in my own chair due to vertigo......

[ShortJohnSilver]

I wonder if these guys were legit or just guys on an adventure. Notice that the part they climbed up to, has no antennas to work on, and while they have a tool belt they have no replacement parts with them.

[MNeagle]

I wonder if these guys were legit or just guys on an adventure. Notice that the part they climbed up to, has no antennas to work on, and while they have a tool belt they have no replacement parts with them.


Then they're union guys. You know, another trip down for those parts!

[willie pete]

Don't think I could ever do that, and then free climb the last 60 feet up the antenna? :o if I was in that line of work, I think I'd wear a parachute, at least they have an elevator ride up the first 1600 feet....lol

Yea, birds fly that high and even higher, just think a bird could land on the top and wouldn't even think about it :D

[The Great Ag]

Yeah, but I bet they make more than $9.75 and hour! For the proper amount of pay, I could overcome a lot of things, including height.

The Great Ag

[silversurfer]

Yeah, but I bet they make more than $9.75 and hour! For the proper amount of pay, I could overcome a lot of things, including height.

The Great Ag


are you willing to transfer to Albuquerque?


Civil Tech/Tower Climber--Requires Construction Experience


Radio Tower Construction Company looking for Tower Hands. No tower experience necessary, but position does require climbing towers to extreme heights. Pay depends on experience but is typically $14-$15/hr to start. Potential to grow on hourly wage as you learn the business. This is a lifestyle AND a job, please read the ad fully before responding. Some construction background required--preferably concrete finishing/pouring/rebar experience. FREQUENT EXTENDED OUT OF TOWN TRAVEL 80-90% (can be weeks at a time) in company trucks. Clean MVD required. Drug screen required. Full benefits after 90 days, medical, dental, vision, simple IRA, life insurance. We will only consider applicants who are local to the Albuquerque Area. This is an average 40-70 hr/wk position with frequent overtime. We pay a $30 dollar a day per-diem (non-taxable) when you travel out of town.

[The Great Ag]

are you willing to transfer to Albuquerque?


Civil Tech/Tower Climber--Requires Construction Experience


Radio Tower Construction Company looking for Tower Hands. No tower experience necessary, but position does require climbing towers to extreme heights. Pay depends on experience but is typically $14-$15/hr to start. Potential to grow on hourly wage as you learn the business. This is a lifestyle AND a job, please read the ad fully before responding. Some construction background required--preferably concrete finishing/pouring/rebar experience. FREQUENT EXTENDED OUT OF TOWN TRAVEL 80-90% (can be weeks at a time) in company trucks. Clean MVD required. Drug screen required. Full benefits after 90 days, medical, dental, vision, simple IRA, life insurance. We will only consider applicants who are local to the Albuquerque Area. This is an average 40-70 hr/wk position with frequent overtime. We pay a $30 dollar a day per-diem (non-taxable) when you travel out of town.


$14-15 per hour???? ??? That's it??? ??? Good lord, a waiter makes more per hour. . .at least I did back in the day and I did not have to worry about testing my legs to see if they were springs. Geesh. No thank you!

Thanks for the wage, Silversurfer.

The Great Ag

[Saul Mine]

I couldn't load the Yahoo video, but I bet it was this:
http://englishrussia.com/index.php/2008/12/08/tallest-abandoned-structure/

You can get a flood of such material every day:
http://englishrussia.com/

"Because something cool happens every day on one sixth of the Earth's surface!"

(I don't agree with their slogan. It's more like "Hey, we can be just as wasteful and depraved as real people! And we've got lots of snow besides!")

[Saul Mine]

I found this youtube link in the Funny Strange Videos thread. It's not the Russian tower:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnxtTEhx2uI&feature=player_embedded

You wouldn't catch me climbing that for a lousy 15 bux an hour! Driving a bus pays that well!

[ShortJohnSilver]

Yeah, but I bet they make more than $9.75 and hour! For the proper amount of pay, I could overcome a lot of things, including height.

The Great Ag


are you willing to transfer to Albuquerque?


Civil Tech/Tower Climber--Requires Construction Experience


Radio Tower Construction Company looking for Tower Hands. No tower experience necessary, but position does require climbing towers to extreme heights. Pay depends on experience but is typically $14-$15/hr to start. Potential to grow on hourly wage as you learn the business. This is a lifestyle AND a job, please read the ad fully before responding. Some construction background required--preferably concrete finishing/pouring/rebar experience. FREQUENT EXTENDED OUT OF TOWN TRAVEL 80-90% (can be weeks at a time) in company trucks. Clean MVD required. Drug screen required. Full benefits after 90 days, medical, dental, vision, simple IRA, life insurance. We will only consider applicants who are local to the Albuquerque Area. This is an average 40-70 hr/wk position with frequent overtime. We pay a $30 dollar a day per-diem (non-taxable) when you travel out of town.



The reason that position is still open is because the company is lowballing the wages.

Typical charges for climbing a tower start at $60-$100 per hour, 2 hour minimum; goes up from there based on height and difficulty (i.e. 200 foot monopole non-guyed cell tower is "simple" , 500-foot guyed tower is not).

[milehi]

I used to climb towers and install cell sites around the Pacific Northwest in my late twenties. The pay was great and I didn't mind the swaying towers, downpours or the cracks of lightning, but the FREQUENT EXTENDED OUT OF TOWN TRAVEL burned me out.

[keehah]

My palms got all sweaty watching that. I expect that would not be a good thing if I was climbing! :D

[silversurfer]

protect yourself

you do 4 pullups or dive

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz32kXTPZqU

[LuckyStrike]

Then they're union guys. You know, another trip down for those parts!


LOL absolutely MNeagle, I'm glad to have another anti marxist labor union poster around. ;)

[LuckyStrike]

1700 ft is for girls how about 2700+

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWVLzVhnYE0

[LuckyStrike]

protect yourself

from copyright law

you do 4 pullups or dive

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz32kXTPZqU




That is mind blowing, the tallest thing I've ever climbed was probably a crane like that but not nearly as tall this thing was cocked at an angle it might have been 100 ft or so but I'll be damned if I would've done pullups on it holy crap.

[willie pete]

1700 ft is for girls how about 2700+

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWVLzVhnYE0


That's TALL... :o but he incorrectly stated "this is the highest point in the world"...it's not

[LuckyStrike]

That's TALL... :o but he incorrectly stated "this is the highest point in the world"...it's not


Highest man made though if I'm not mistaken.

[willie pete]

That's TALL... :o but he incorrectly stated "this is the highest point in the world"...it's not


Highest man made though if I'm not mistaken.



It probably is.....as for Height; Mt. Everest comes in at #1 ; 29k ft above sea level , Now if that's not high enough for you, you could travel to Mars and climb the highest point in the Solar System at just over 89k ft high....Olympus Mons

[Saul Mine]

Who put this stuff up? And how?

[Saul Mine]

http://i51.tinypic.com/do8i3d.jpg

[Saul Mine]

High points around Kiev. (http://englishrussia.com/index.php/2010/09/18/interesting-kiev/) (And a few shots in the subway.)

[bellevuebully]

Ya, that is really hard to watch for someone who is not fond of heights. My palms were soaked by the end of the video. I honestly don't know how someone could possibly do that. :o

I also find it very hard to believe that a proper continuous belay system isn't built into the design for the safety of the maintainers. I mean it's only a steel cable with some one way clips.

[nunaem]

All that just to broadcast Jerry Springer?!

[Olmstein]

No. Fucking. Way.

[Liquid]

I also find it very hard to believe that a proper continuous belay system isn't built into the design for the safety of the maintainers. I mean it's only a steel cable with some one way clips.


I thought the same thing. It would not be that hard to put in a cable and preventers, etc. But to free climb at that height? Just complete recklessness.

If I had a harness and was secured, I'd love that job. I enjoy climbing things. I free climb at work, but usually not more than 20 feet or so. Enough to break a few things, but 'hopefully' not life threatening. I would not climb in those leather gloves, that's for sure.

When you think about it, there's no real difference between 1700 feet and 100 feet, if you fall you are dead. I've had one bad fall, it happens quick. Everything is going fine, next thing you are airborne. It's not like the movies. It's almost business-like, the thought process as you are falling thinking "this is going to hurt". But the guys in this video, would be thinking it's game over.

No thanks. Not worth it. I really don't see a reason why they could not climb this secured to a harness, and not taking the chance of free climbing. Just doesn't make sense, at all.

[Joe King]

When you think about it, there's no real difference between 1700 feet and 100 feet, if you fall you are dead.

Yep. Once you're up there, it's all the same if you fall.

That said, I wouldn't do it. Not for no $15 an hour anyways.
Perhaps I'd think about it for 4-6 times that much. lol


Speaking of "heights", how many of you would do this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EV5b8QHHqw&feature=related