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Never had to climb anything like that but, back in my paramedic days, I had a couple instances when I had to render care on someone who was injured up on a tower. My only saving grace was that I was so busy with treatment and rescue that I didn't have much opportunity to think about the height.
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I would freeze I think. On a normal tower that is, I wouldn't and couldn't even attempt this.
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Well, someone has to change the lightbulb!
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Nope, no way would I ever do that!! That is very impressive to watch full screen, but I'll stay on the ground thank you very much.
I'm going to share this on FB. Some of my friends and family will get a kick out of this. Thanks Ian !
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That I would do for a decent pay check.
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It brings to mind Mel Brooks film "High Anxiety"
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It brings to mind Mel Brooks film "High Anxiety"
Funny flick,
Mel Brooks is 
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Eeh! All harnessed up and everything?! This just goes to show ya how soft we are today. Yep, so take a gander here at what Great Grandpa was doin' back in the 1930s!.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcq2HzadZRw 
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Dwight is that you waving to the moving picture box
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Its all nuts to me! Great to look at but i would have fallen off just looking over the edge....WOW
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Well, someone has to change the lightbulb!
I actually did that when I was a teen - once. Got paid a whopping $65 for changing the bulb on a radio tower - not nearly as high as this video though. I only did it the one time filling in for a friend who did it regularly. It was a regular deal before the LEDs became common. The swaying of the tower was the hardest thing to get used to.
It must be a young man's game though, because a few years back I was asked to change the light on the roof of our church tower (6 stories) and I couldn't do it.
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Dwight is that you waving to the moving picture box
Nah. That was my Great Grandpa Orville Argo!!!
(...striking resemblance though, huh!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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i climbed towers for about 5 years as an ancillary duty. My team installed RF infrastucture so climbing actually made our jobs easier. I've been on 1400' towers, highest I ever had to go was 320. Best climb, Jan 2011 Angel's Peak on Mt Charelston outside of Vegas. Base Elevation 9000', tower climb was only 60', it 30 degress with a stiff wind, but WHOOOO what a view!
BTW 99% of what that guy was doing is illegal now.
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Eeh! All harnessed up and everything?! This just goes to show ya how soft we are today.
Yep, so take a gander here at what Great Grandpa was doin' back in the 1930s!....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcq2HzadZRw
Look again Dwight, he was only tied off when he took a break and once he was at the very top.
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1 I gotta pee after watching that! 2. I'd probably drop a wrench after all that. & 3> he bring BASE jumping gear to get down?
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It's funny you said that about base jumping gear, that was my thought exactly.
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one of my guys droppedan antenna element from 320'...went right through the roofof the building below. Luckily it was a removal not an install...
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Well, in keepin' with the tenor of this here tower thread, and speakin' of steelworkers, I heard there was this tribe of Upstate Indians that were specially gifted at the high stuff.
I forgot who they were, mebbe somebody know.
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I think I've heard they were from the Mohawk tribe, Wade.
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There was a National Lampoon comic insert back in the 70's called "Trail of Tiers". It was a parody cartoon that told the story of Native Americans who worked on the high steel.
Lots of made up customs like when they became too old to work they'd seal them up in walls, becoming a 'brave', etc. Lots of funny stuff
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This stuff makes me quesy just watchin it! A few months ago, on a news show, they told how companies are "reajusting" (cheating) workers in this line of work. Hiring competing "low wage" companies, where young men are willing to do the work for less, that is, less training, less equipment, less pay, etc. A couple of ex-climbers had real horror stories about what some guys are doing for a buck.
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Wouldn't it be easier and faster to just repel from a chopper, hovered say 20' above it? 
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Wouldn't it be easier and faster to just repel from a chopper, hovered say 20' above it?
No expert here but I imagine that would be very difficult. Very small target and lots of wind.
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Wouldn't it be easier and faster to just repel from a chopper, hovered say 20' above it?
No expert here but I imagine that would be very difficult. Very small target and lots of wind.
If they can do it in that power lines video, I guess they could do it there too.
I'm guessing it's more of a $$ decision this way. The cost of hiring a helicopter and tower worker must be much higher than letting the worker climb alone. Power companies have greater budget than cell tower maintenance.
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It must be a young man's game though, because a few years back I was asked to change the light on the roof of our church tower (6 stories) and I couldn't do it.
I agree with that comment, in my mid 20's, which I am 30 years beyond now, I hiked, rode horses in the SE Utah canyon' country. That red rock is full of 500-1,500' Chinle cliffs, ledges, etc. That was then, this is now. Which itself has never made sense to me, as when you're young you have more to lose in terms of life.
That tower climbing video-yikes. It reminded me of this excavator climbing one that appeared on thse pages a few years back. Blows my feeble mind man 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO-wTO7ice8
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Wouldn't it be easier and faster to just repel from a chopper, hovered say 20' above it?
No expert here but I imagine that would be very difficult. Very small target and lots of wind.
If they can do it in that power lines video, I guess they could do it there too.
I'm guessing it's more of a $$ decision this way. The cost of hiring a helicopter and tower worker must be much higher than letting the worker climb alone. Power companies have greater budget than cell tower maintenance.
Guy is on a stable attached platform for the power lines not swinging from a rope. I have no actual knowlege og this stuff so still just guessing.
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It must be a young man's game though, because a few years back I was asked to change the light on the roof of our church tower (6 stories) and I couldn't do it.
I agree with that comment, in my mid 20's, which I am 30 years beyond now, I hiked, rode horses in the SE Utah canyon' country. That red rock is full of 500-1,500' Chinle cliffs, ledges, etc. That was then, this is now. Which itself has never made sense to me, as when you're young you have more to lose in terms of life.
That tower climbing video-yikes. It reminded me of this excavator climbing one that appeared on thse pages a few years back. Blows my feeble mind man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO-wTO7ice8
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That tower climbing video-yikes. It reminded me of this excavator climbing one that appeared on thse pages a few years back. Blows my feeble mind man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO-wTO7ice8
Watching that led me to this 
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Man when he took her hat he could have squished he head like a grape with a twitch.
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Guy is on a stable attached platform for the power lines not swinging from a rope. I have no actual knowlege og this stuff so still just guessing.
Oh, but that's what I meant, off the platform onto the tower.
Never occurred to me to try and lower to the tower while swinging on a rope! I think I would wear hockey pads and a good helmet to try that ! ha ha!
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Never had to climb anything like that but, back in my paramedic days, I had a couple instances when I had to render care on someone who was injured up on a tower. My only saving grace was that I was so busy with treatment and rescue that I didn't have much opportunity to think about the height.
It's funny. It's been a while since those days but when I think about places I had to get to, high, deep, dark, wet, cold, hot, violent, loud, strange, whatever, it was always about the patient. I'd never go into those place in a million years otherwise but, back then, I just jumped right in without a second thought. Because of the proliferation of toys the last couple of years we had to wear body armor. The guy that took my job took a bullet to the face his first week on the job. None of us ever thought about any of that stuff as far a I knew.
If I'd have given it that second thought I probably wouldn't have gone.
It seems like it was in an alternate universe now.
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