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Posted: 8/23/2015 10:19:42 PM EDT

Posted: 8/23/2015 10:22:05 PM EDT

[#1]

nobody else crazy enough?

Posted: 8/23/2015 10:23:18 PM EDT

[#2]

Would rather shoot myself in the dink than do that

Posted: 8/23/2015 10:23:29 PM EDT

[#3]

I don't think it's a real big applicant pool if you're interested.

Pretty sure pay is pretty good, too

Posted: 8/23/2015 10:25:42 PM EDT

[#4]

You have to be out of your goddamn mind. That's how.

Posted: 8/23/2015 10:26:30 PM EDT

[#5]

Would rather shoot ContrarianIndicator in the dink than do that.

Posted: 8/23/2015 10:27:11 PM EDT

[#6]

Oh damn... Left my tools down at the bottom...

Posted: 8/23/2015 10:29:54 PM EDT

[#7]

I'll stick to ground level jobs, thank you very much.

With my luck a rung would break on the way down and I'd be stuck there forever

Posted: 8/23/2015 10:30:46 PM EDT

[#8]

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Well I've been told that plenty of times so.

Posted: 8/23/2015 10:31:05 PM EDT

[#9]

Fuuuuu. Nooo! I'd go to the unemployment line first!

Posted: 8/23/2015 10:32:55 PM EDT

[#10]

Be a bad day to have diarrhea! Cuz I'd not need any help shittin my pants!

Posted: 8/23/2015 10:34:41 PM EDT

[#11]

Lots of radio repair shops have antenna climbers. I just had a long conversation about this with our FD radio repairman/business owner.

He was quick to offer me a job, I was quicker to decline.

Posted: 8/23/2015 10:35:01 PM EDT

[#12]

Only if I had a base jumping rig on.

Posted: 8/23/2015 10:35:52 PM EDT

[#13]

Why in the ever living fuk can I not see anything? Youtube links no longer show when I open a thread? DAFUQ

Posted: 8/23/2015 10:37:58 PM EDT

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I can't see shit unless I do this!!!

Posted: 8/23/2015 10:40:46 PM EDT

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Well I've been told that plenty of times so.

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You have to be out of your goddamn mind. That's how.

Well I've been told that plenty of times so.

You wouldn't have to worry about me taking your job.

#fuckthatshit

Posted: 8/23/2015 10:41:22 PM EDT

[#16]

They're changing the light bulb?

Posted: 8/23/2015 10:41:31 PM EDT

[#17]

All you have to do is to wait for someone to fall off of the job.

Posted: 8/23/2015 10:43:08 PM EDT

[#18]

Stupid question, if you had a reserve chute, would you survive a fall off the top?

Posted: 8/23/2015 10:43:13 PM EDT

[#19]

Not a chance in hell

Posted: 8/23/2015 10:44:27 PM EDT

[#20]

Nope. I get anxiety just watching the video.

Posted: 8/23/2015 10:44:57 PM EDT

[#21]

I was half way expecting him to swap out a 9 volt battery once he got to the top.

Posted: 8/23/2015 10:45:58 PM EDT

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Posted: 8/23/2015 10:46:39 PM EDT

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My ex's husband owns a window washing company. The guys that do tall buildings with the scaffolding and electric winches. He told me before that his best guy keeps an igloo drink cooler full of kool-aid and vodka in his truck.

Says he is never drunk but he won't go up without slamming a glass or three of the stuff.

Not saying I agree but I understand.

Posted: 8/23/2015 10:46:49 PM EDT

[#24]

http://www.comtrainusa.com/class-schedule.php

Posted: 8/23/2015 10:46:51 PM EDT

[#25]

If you fell from that high you would have 10.2 seconds to contemplate how badly you had just screwed up.

Posted: 8/23/2015 10:46:58 PM EDT

[#26]

My legs twitched when he leaned over and looked straight down.

Posted: 8/23/2015 10:47:06 PM EDT

[#27]

Fuck. That.

Posted: 8/23/2015 10:47:18 PM EDT

[#28]

If there was $1,000,000 tax free at the top id do it. I'd cry like a baby and but I'd get to the top, and back down.

Posted: 8/23/2015 10:48:04 PM EDT

[#29]

The pay isn't as great as you would think, and it's a really unstable industry right now.

Most tower guys that have been doing it a long time wouldn't fit in anywhere else.

It's a high stress, physically demanding job, and I personally know of 4 fatal accidents and one guy committing suicide.

I would eat ramen every day the rest of my life before doing it.

Posted: 8/23/2015 10:48:38 PM EDT

[#30]

This one is worse

Posted: 8/23/2015 10:49:47 PM EDT

[#31]

I imagine it would be a pain to build one of those towers.

Posted: 8/23/2015 10:50:23 PM EDT

[#32]

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The pay isn't as great as you would think, and it's a really unstable industry right now.

Most tower guys that have been doing it a long time wouldn't fit in anywhere else.

It's a high stress, physically demanding job, and I personally know of 4 fatal accidents and one guy committing suicide.

I would eat ramen every day the rest of my life before doing it.

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Really?

Posted: 8/23/2015 10:51:38 PM EDT

[#33]

Meh, I'd have no problem BEING that high.

IMH anything over around 120-150' isn't anything to sweat about, it the interim distance where if you fall you count to potatoe if you live that concerns me, and I've worked at that height climbing with no safety gear a lot.

That fucking CLIMB looks like a screaming bitch though.

IMHO only way I'd do that job is if i get a dope harness that I can lock in and sit in and take a break for awhile.

Posted: 8/23/2015 10:52:39 PM EDT

[#34]

Not a chance in hell.

Posted: 8/23/2015 10:52:57 PM EDT

[#35]

I worked an accident a about 12-13 years ago where 3 cell phone tower repairmen fell to their deaths harnessed together. An equipment failure caused them to fall and 2 came off the tower. The third guy couldn't hold the weight of the other 2 that were harnessed to him and he lost his grip and all 3 went 280+ ft to the dirt

It's easy to tell the ones who died on impact because their bodies aren't as swollen as the ones who lived a few seconds after they hit the ground, or so the paramedics were telling me.

Posted: 8/23/2015 10:57:37 PM EDT

[#36]

I've seen enough welds break to know I'm not trusting one exposed to the elements at 1700'.

Posted: 8/23/2015 10:58:14 PM EDT

[#37]

I have a friend who works for a tower company. He recently got his recertification to do the climbing again after some time working in another department. I think the highest he has been is 400'. The guys who go higher have a higher insurance level. Typically to get into this you need to be an electrician.

Posted: 8/23/2015 10:58:43 PM EDT

[#38]

Damn! That made me nauseous just watching it.
Time changes things. When I was 18 I used to climb & paint towers similar to that. Never did any that tall though.
Hessian-1

Posted: 8/23/2015 10:59:31 PM EDT

[#39]

The misinformation in this thread is going to be priceless.

Posted: 8/23/2015 11:00:07 PM EDT

[#40]

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My ex's husband owns a window washing company. The guys that do tall buildings with the scaffolding and electric winches. He told me before that his best guy keeps an igloo drink cooler full of kool-aid and vodka in his truck.

Says he is never drunk but he won't go up without slamming a glass or three of the stuff.

Not saying I agree but I understand.

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I was a professional window cleaner in Manhattan for 20 years and the highest I went was roughly 900 feet.I'm told old and fat now for that kind of climb but in my prime I wouldn't have given it a second thought.

Posted: 8/23/2015 11:01:21 PM EDT

[#41]

I met a few guys in the airport that did that, built and repaired towers like that. They all seemed a bit off when you talked to them, wonder why?

Posted: 8/23/2015 11:02:20 PM EDT

[#42]

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I was a professional window cleaner in Manhattan for 20 years and the highest I went was roughly 800 feet.I'm told old and fat now for that kind of climb but in my prime I wouldn't have given it a second thought.

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My ex's husband owns a window washing company. The guys that do tall buildings with the scaffolding and electric winches. He told me before that his best guy keeps an igloo drink cooler full of kool-aid and vodka in his truck.

Says he is never drunk but he won't go up without slamming a glass or three of the stuff.

Not saying I agree but I understand.

I was a professional window cleaner in Manhattan for 20 years and the highest I went was roughly 800 feet.I'm told old and fat now for that kind of climb but in my prime I wouldn't have given it a second thought.

So tell us some stories.

Posted: 8/23/2015 11:04:40 PM EDT

[#43]

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I have a friend who works for a tower company. He recently got his recertification to do the climbing again after some time working in another department. I think the highest he has been is 400'. The guys who go higher have a higher insurance level. Typically to get into this you need to be an electrician.

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The 3 guys on the job we investigated didn't have any certifications whatsoever. The employer said that they inspected the "bridge plates" that held the sections of antenna mast together. Apparently the wind and elements put stress on the plates and bolts that connect them to the tower and over time the plates and bolts wear out from the antenna flexing back and forth in hot and cold weather.

Don't know much else about it. Shame those boys got killed.

Posted: 8/23/2015 11:04:43 PM EDT

[#44]

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Only if I had a base jumping rig on.

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I would do it if the pay was good

Posted: 8/23/2015 11:07:34 PM EDT

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Stupid question, if you had a reserve chute, would you survive a fall off the top?

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Yep

I have 90+ jumps at 800' with a T-10 and another 30 or so at 1200-1500 on a T-11

Posted: 8/23/2015 11:07:38 PM EDT

[#46]

I felt my guts turning to water just watching that shit.

No way, no how. Fucking forget it.

Posted: 8/23/2015 11:07:50 PM EDT

[#47]

I just don't understand, why are you all so scared of heights. I assume it's a reflection on the population in general.

Posted: 8/23/2015 11:08:48 PM EDT

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I felt like puking watching that

Posted: 8/23/2015 11:08:49 PM EDT

[#49]

20 years ago, I used to go to 200-220' to change bulbs and antennas. I'm such a pussy now that 2nd vid of him free climbing almost made me throw up.

Posted: 8/23/2015 11:09:29 PM EDT

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I imagine it would be a pain to build one of those towers.

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Killed a few guys taking one down in Huntsville.

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