Someone has to do it !!

Old Roy · Feb 3, 2012

Many folks get mental fatigue some don't have any mental problems at all cause they don't have a brain. How would you like to do this for a living ??? And yes it takes 2 people to change a light bulb.
I white knuckled my mouse and had to replace it .. LOL

Don't mind the first part as it is a cartoon.
wont catch me here

oldtanker · Feb 3, 2012

Seen that before......guess if it were me that darn thing wouldn't get fixed!

Rick

donjr · Feb 4, 2012

I was dumb enuf to climb poles for a living for thirty years. But those guys made my prostate pucker. I was never that crazy even when I was young and dumb.

Lou from Wi. · Feb 4, 2012

Whoeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! never never never.If it can't be bolted together and raised from the ground up. FORGET IT!!!!Tall structures scare he11 out of me . have a tendency to do a leap off. Not a vocation for the weak at heart. LOU

Old Roy · Feb 4, 2012

My feet get where my head was I'm too busy hanging on to do anything

Old Roy · Feb 4, 2012

Can't say anything about that pucker, but darn sure that second fella has it tough if following a new person after a milkshake.

JerryS · Feb 4, 2012

Holy Krap! Don't know if I'm gonna be able to sleep tonite. I can't even imagine doing that.

donjr · Feb 4, 2012

I wonder if there's anything in his insurance policy 'bout that?

Super Trucker · Feb 4, 2012

OH HELL NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If we were meant to get that far off the ground we'd have wings!

MarkB_MI · Feb 4, 2012

That's an amazing video. No safety lines!

Dieselrider · Feb 4, 2012

Bet those boys get more then minimum wage.

Chris(WA) · Feb 4, 2012

One word...NO!!!
Those boy have got something I don't have or want! God bless'em! Hard for me to even watch the video!

ohiojim · Feb 4, 2012

i understand the climb but i don't know how you carry a set of gonads that big all the way up...???

Billy NY · Feb 4, 2012

Heights never really bothered me, and after working on skyscrapers in NYC, doing inspections or testing on swing-stage scaffolds on the shear face of these tall buildings, but that video made the tops of my hands and feet hurt just trying to watch it, almost makes you nauseous.

In '95, I climbed a local transmitter tower over in the nearby mountains, no harness, right up the center, to the top, several hundred feet, not sure the exact height of it, but the view was incredible, no problem, one heck of a work out, it will make you sore. Probably not the most intelligent thing I've ever done. Friends watching, see me get to the top, next thing I know, I am passing them on the way down, saw me do it and now had to try it.

A person places a lot of trust in the hand and foot holds on that tower, when traveling and the lanyard is not hooked in !

John Harmon · Feb 4, 2012

Why am I out of breath?

fixerupper · Feb 4, 2012

It looks like an interesting job but my arms and legs never have had that kind of stamina. Marilyn's brother used to climb towers on weekends and sometimes in the evening after work. He once commented about the rotten wooden platform at the top of one of the towers.Jim

BANDITFARMER · Feb 4, 2012

A good friend of ours was stationed at White Sands NM and his soul job was to climb the tower every day to change the light bulbs on the tower, Rain or shine or snow. I asked him how do you get use to it? He said you never do! I dont think there is enough money in the world to get me to climb one. Bandit

Gun guru · Feb 4, 2012

I always was afraid of heights above 20 feet, I could never be a roofer. But climbing that tower is insane. If someone gave me 10 million bucks to climb like the guy in the video is doing I would faint, or freeze up and fall off, I wouldnt get the money.
Does OSHA look at what has to be done on that task? No safety harness I see. Just watching the video made me queezy.......Im gonna hurl.....

Billy Shafer · Feb 4, 2012

I had an interview for a job as a site keeper. Going to remote sites to clean and work on them. Interview was going good until they said we also supply the climbing gear. Ask them what gear. Said you have to climb the towers. End of interview.

If it is broken more than ten feet off the ground. It is going to stay broke.

Anonymous-0 · Feb 4, 2012

Not enough $$$ in the entire world for me to even attempt that!

Errin OH · Feb 4, 2012

Did that for about ten years. It was better than min wage but not by much. I have been up to 1600 feet. But it was a piece of cake. An elevator takes you to 1500. You only climb 100 foot or so. Those 4-500 footers were a pain because they are to small for an elevator. Once you past about 60-70 feet it really doesn't make a difference. The out come is the same. However the higher you go, the longer you have to think about it.

rocko · Feb 4, 2012

Never really had a problem with heights, worked derick on a oil rig for 7 yrs, cut many a spruce tree down limbing on way up and cut and drop about 6 ft at a time on the way down. That would be quite a bit beyond what I ever done thow, cant really see it in the video but I can just imagine how much that tower is actually swaying and flexing when you get that high. Remember taking down about a 50 ft spruce and I swear that thing was going 10 ft off center( 20 ft back and forth) when I would top off 6 ft. That tower would surely be moving some when you got up there. Does that thought settle your stomachs any fella's. LOL. Rocko.

Nebraska Cowman · Feb 4, 2012

I kept hooking my leg under my desk chair so I could rest my hands. I'm probably too old to be climbing that far off the ground but I'd climb up there before I'd crawl under a house. I don't do crawlspace.

Funtwohunt · Feb 4, 2012

Here a few pics of a 1940 foot tower that came down about twenty miles south of here. I was on the call with the FD. There were two guys killed in the accident. One was about 700 feet up and ended up in the pile. The other was right at 1700 feet and rode the tower down. The pict. with officer is where the second one was. The longest whole piece on the ground was about 900 feet of the tower. The top is the one on the left about 400 feet long. The second guy was right where these pieces connected. About 400 feet is in the twisted piles at the bottom. The men were changing out the cable pins where it attached to the tower. It was determined that they pulled the wrong one at the wrong time. Bad Deal. One of the guys girl freind was at the bottom by the building when it came down around her. funtwohunt

Gary from Muleshoe · Feb 4, 2012

I wouldn't do it, heck I don't even like being 5'8". LOL

Grabatire · Feb 4, 2012

When I was about eight or nine years old Mom and Dad came home from town to find me on the barn roof, with my feet hanging over each side of the point that extended out from the roof. Dad said Mom fainted. I don"t remember that incident, but I do remember doing hand stands on the barn roof in a manner that when I was upside down, my back would be braced against a cupola ventilator.

Now I'm with Billy Shafer. "If it is broken more than ten feet off the ground. It is going to stay broke."

onefarmer · Feb 4, 2012

How would they go get the dude when he has his heart attack up there? Provided he was tied off at the time. Then it wouldn't matter.

Rick Kr · Feb 4, 2012

Around 4:20 of the video it appears as the climber is feeling around for his next grab point. Wouldn't catch me up there.

How much does a 1700 foot tower sway? I've been in 50 foot trees that were swaying, can't imagine what 1700 foot would be.

Brother-in-law climbs 400 footers around here. Keeps him really fit and muscular for sure.

Rick

Az peapicker · Feb 4, 2012

Billy would you e Mail your E mail address ?

mine is [email protected]

John

Az peapicker · Feb 4, 2012

Billy would you e Mail your E mail address ?

mine is [email protected]

John

D15DAN · Feb 4, 2012

I might would consider doing it......if they let me wear a parachute.

NEKS · Feb 4, 2012

Better get your early morning chores done before starting up there. My hand would not be the only thing starting to get weak if I got very high.

dhamps10 · Feb 4, 2012

A friend of mine owns several towers, and works on more. He is 57, and 1 tower is 1200 feet. It takes him 90 min. to climb.
Dennis

Funtwohunt · Feb 4, 2012

or something. Seems the photo"s I posted are gone. Didn"t mean to offend anyone, sorry. Any ideas to why they may have been removed so I"ll know in the future? I just figured as long as tall towers as on the adgenda I though I might have something to share. Sorry Again. Respectfully, funtwohunt

DRL · Feb 4, 2012

Although the climb up would be bad enough, the climb down would be even worse. Can't imagine trying to find your foothold when you can't see where you are going. Glad someone is willing to do it, because I sure couldn't!!

Dave in MS · Feb 5, 2012

Was that the WLBT tower that came down a couple years ago?

Funtwohunt · Feb 5, 2012

tower out of Rapid City, SD. The tower was located 20 miles NW of Alliance NE. Came down in fall of 2003 if I remember right. Basically it was determined that the two guys had pins pulled on the same side of tower and one of the tension devices they used to take tension off thepin failed and that created an imbalance and down it came. A lot of people considered it the holy grail for para gliding or para shooting. People from many different states would climb up it several hundred feet and jump. They were always charged with tresspassing and fined, but they felt it was cheaper than having to pay for a jump somewhere else. funtwohunt

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