This guy has testicles (Antenna climb stairway to heaven)

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PlasmaBomb

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Some more information

Eighteen workers died in 2006 from falling from a communications tower in a Tower Climber Deaths profession that has approximately 9,800 employees that work on elevated structures primarily for the cellular and broadcast industries - although broadband activity is increasing throughout the country and wireless internet service providers' installations are adding to the current busy workload.

http://www.isp-planet.com/fixed_wireless/business/2006/tower_climber_insurance_bol.html

http://www.wirelessestimator.com/breaking_news.cfm

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/86842
 

Eli

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Nooo!! I was at work and youtube is blocked, now it's gone. :(

Edit: Guess I should have read the rest of the thread. :p

Damn, that is fucking insane. :eek: There is no way I could handle that, lol.
 
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iGas

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thanks

"Is it normal to pay $1,000 to $1,500 to hang three antennas on a tower? One's at 100 feet and two're at 290 feet."

soooooo 1600 ft = 5k? or 20k? lol
Some of the comments from the links, suggest that greater than $1000 a day is pricey, but some charge up to $1800 a day pending location. That said they have huge amount of insurance and gear cost, and the work is seasonal, weather pending, and sporadic.

I suspect that the pay per annum isn't that high.
 

lxskllr

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In case the link breaks. I had issues with it too...

First off I want to thank everyone for the great response I got on the video “Stairway to Heaven”, it was really much more than I could have hoped for. Now, having said that I am also very sorry that I could not keep the video up for you to share with your friends and family. I truly am sorry, I can see from the comments how popular it was and that’s why I want to explain what happened.
The footage of the climb came from a friend of mine that does this type of work, I have know him for several years and he has helped me many times in the past. Recently he gave me this video he shot on one of his jobs. I showed him the edited video and he approved it and I put it up on TheOnLineEngineer.Org and You Tube over the weekend. On Monday he was getting calls from colleagues telling him that they were concerned about what the video showed. His world is a very small one, and you don’t want to bite the hand that feeds you! Some facility owners are pretty uptight about liability and such and may not hire him if they think he does not take safety seriously.
So he asked me to take it down, and I did. That was Monday morning (Sep 13, 2010). Today (Sep 15) he told me it was up on You Tube, by the time I looked at it it had over 77,000 views. It was on more than a dozen websites. The chance that someone important would see it was increasing rapidly. So the video most of you saw was one that had been ripped off from my website before I took it down. I wrote asking the guy who put it up to take it down but got no response so I contacted You Tube.
Once again I am sorry about pulling the video, I know that every time I looked at it my legs got weak, there’s no way I could do that type of work. AND THATS MY POINT – I need this guy who made the video, we plan to do more of them, but it won’t happen if he can’t get work because he’s been black listed by the industry. He’s also my friend and I don’t want to see him get hurt because of some video I put up on the internet.
We have had two offers to broadcast this video, a request to submit it to a film festival in France, over 118,000 views on You Tube. This was all much more than we had ever planned for or thought would happen.
AS SOON AS WE CAN WE WILL HAVE MORE VIDEOS ABOUT TOWER CLIMBING, in the mean time please be patient.
And once again thank you for all the comments.
Russ
 

zerocool84

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I'm surprised with how many of you are afraid of heights and we're not talking really high stuff but balconies and small ladders and such.
 

Wyndru

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I'm surprised with how many of you are afraid of heights and we're not talking really high stuff but balconies and small ladders and such.

Why is that surprising, because you are not? Everyone has different phobias.
 

olds

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^ times 1000.

I DO NOT like heights...

I'm not even comfortable taking an elevator that high...:rolleyes: Every few years, I have to go to a meeting in SF on the 22nd floor of a building...<shudder> I hate the ride up/down...and stay away from the windows while I'm up there.

Oddly enough, being in an airplane doesn't bother me, I've done about 40 parachute jumps...and that doesn't bother me, but things like this...I get just a bit...uneasy.

cranes.jpg
 

lxskllr

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I'm surprised with how many of you are afraid of heights and we're not talking really high stuff but balconies and small ladders and such.

I don't like walking laterally at height, but I don't mind climbing for the most part. I used to walk bridge beams all the time, and when I was younger I did it unattached. As I got older, I liked it less and less, and I get shaky even when clipped in. The worst was doing it at night with iron workers everywhere, and fuckin' wrenches, nuts and bolts laying all over the beams, and light plants making weird shadows on everything. The last couple years doing that, I'd get mild anxiety attacks walking steel. It's the worst :^/
 

skyking

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I'm not in good enough shape to climb that much ladder. I don't have a problem with the heights.
What I do have a problem with is the wall walking you do when setting trusses. I can't get comfortable on a 3.5" or 5.5" top plate with nothing else. Old carpenters just get up and walk along like it is no big thing.
 

SandEagle

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just saw the vid. why not just take a helicopter up there and get the work done? seems fake.
 

olds

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Just watched the video.
As he was climbing up, inside the framework, I thought "so what, I could do that."

Once he climbed outside the framework and continued to climb, my sphincter clinched up.

When he go to the small section where he had to go hand over hand, I felt light headed.

When he climbed out onto the light, I shit my pants and fainted.
 
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xSauronx

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Some of the comments from the links, suggest that greater than $1000 a day is pricey, but some charge up to $1800 a day pending location. That said they have huge amount of insurance and gear cost, and the work is seasonal, weather pending, and sporadic.

I suspect that the pay per annum isn't that high.

i worked with a guy who did that kind of thing for several years. he really didnt get paid much, considering. said it was way safer than climbing a ladder and working on a roof and such due to the safety equipment he used.

i want to say he made less than $30/hr when he did it "full time" but he typically only worked on towers under 500 hundred feet high, which wasnt a really big deal for him. the highest he told me he ever did was something like 1400 feet.

when he stopped doing that full time he did it on the side, charged $50 or $60/hr iirc, 2 hour minimum even for a site survey.

no idea what he made climbing larger towers *Shrug*
 
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Awesome. I saw the video of the technician who replaces the beacon light on the Empire State Building's spire on The Discovery Channel a long time ago. This looked about 42 times more complicated than that.