Could you climb a 1768 foot tower?

TV transmission tower at the top

Often there are other antennas lower down

The one near my house broadcasts 2 TV stations, plus has a Ham Radio repeater at about 1500 ft, and probably some others too

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yaaaaaaaaaaah I got to about one minute and had the heebie jeebies so bad I had to shut it off

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I will not even get on the kitchen counter to change a lightbulb. Watching that made my belly flop. All that movement -all that bobbing his head was about more than I could take.

I am *shocked* they climb that high with so little safety precautions. He was barely holding on with his hands, much less with safety ropes. I bet his life insurance policy is pricey.

They make $100 an hour on average. I know people who work those type of jobs. Some people work for wind farms..they have to climb those towers to repair the broken fans, etc.

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I had to turn it off at 2:17 when mine were pressing so hard together I couldn't take the pain.

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Not me, and the weird thing isn't being afraid of falling off the ladder ( you're clipped in after all) I'd be thinking the whole wretched thing is going to collapse! Its too freaky looking across the horizon at height (which is supposed to be a good way to handle heights) and seeing the top of adjacent towers. I just stopped kidding myself at that point! That and it'd take hours to get up there and hours to get down, yuk!

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I had a job that paid 100 dollars an hour or more sometimes, and didn`t have to do anything at all that risky. I think they are way under paid for this job thank you very much. You couldn`t pay me enough to do what they do, no way in L. > Marc

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I would pack a parachute. It would make the trip down a lot quicker.

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I'd stay on the ground and give moral support to whomever was doing the climbing 'cause it sure as heck wouldn't be me. If it were up to me to climb that thing, someone would be doing without TV.


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The height on the video didn't really bother me as much as the freaky "fisheye" perspective the camera was giving. Did anyone else notice that?

I think that the highest point in the refinery was the flare stack, which was 250 feet. I never climbed it myself.

The tallest processing unit we had was the FCC unit, that had regular readings that had to be taken at around 120 feet, but the FCC unit had an elevator, so that's not really the same thing.

Most readings were within 3 or 4 stories from the ground, but when readings go up to 6 or 8 stories they usually provided a "man lift" to ride on. They are a little creepy to get used to, yet safe if everyone follows the rules. Here is how the man lift worked.

http://www.millelevatorsupply.com/pr...ries-1331.html

As you can see, it was just a vertical conveyor belt with little platforms and handholds. They sure beat climbing ladders, but I don't know if OSHA still allows them.

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My friend makes 100 dollars an hour doing IT work , his chair doesn't have to leave the ground

100 dollars an hour, but how many times would you be required to climb something like that? Its not like its a 40 hour work week, it would seem to me anyway

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They do it fairly often since those who so that sort of work tend to travel all over the country.

They often do it late at night because the towers can't be trasnmitting or it would cook them like a microwave ( which is exactly what it is)

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LOL yep the 4' then 8' then at last 12' fences didn't slow us down a bit . we used to joke the fence would have to be taller than the tower WITH hidden electric wires.
And WOW that looks like a great place to watch the 4th of July from!

Not Now..........I'm way too old & tired.
Back in the early '60's, I worked for a guy in South Texas, on TV towers.
Biggest one he had a maintenance contract on, was IIRC, about 1200'.
We had to change a big bulb in the light on top of it.
Most of the work was scraping & painting. It was boring work, even up high.
You had to be reall careful of dripping paint, tho.
One guy got fired for dropping a big pair of channel-locks.
They went partly through a 12' micro-wave antenna. Insuance paid for it......guy got fired. Glad it wasn't me. The job paid well.

Hnnh! that was about 50 years ago........I was a much younger man, then.

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