not paid enough

[Rusted]

I have no idea what these guys get paid, but it is not enough

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I wonder if there is a line that is crossed where it would make more sense to wear a parachute rather than the harness and traditional saftey gear

 

[Cody]

eff that ess

 

[I Lean]

Nope.

 

[mbryson]

That was rather traumatic just to watch. NO WAY IN HELL

 

[DOSS]

Id be up for it but I doubt that my white butt would be doing it without being clipped in a LOT more often.. I don't care if it slows my ascent, because unlike what they said in the video there is a very fast way down and I don't want to take it.

 

[kmboren]

I think that chute would come in handy after you get off the elevator at 1600 FEET .

No thanks, That job is not for me :sick:. My parents live in MO and I have seen these towers. They are TALL.

 

[RockMonkey]

Holy crap! At that elevation you'd have some time to think about your mistake. Hell, you'd have time to make some final phone calls...

 

[bryson]

I got butterflies just watching the video!

I might do it...

 

[864runner]

I would do it. It would be AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!

 

[UNSTUCK]

Has anyone noticed that the worse the job, the lower the pay rate? Wonder why that is?

 

[Herzog]

That is cool stuff. Scary but cool. I wonder what the fatality rate is on that type of job? The free climbing on that last part seem really sketchy! Not to mention a freaking back of tools hanging from you below. That's the part that made me queezy, just the feeling of something tugging on you from below at that height.

 

[Bear T]

Oh the memories... I used to work for a local tower company many years (and pounds) ago. 1700' is short. I never got the chance, but there are towers of the same type in the Oklahoma area that are over 2500 plus. My old forum had to climb 2500' just to change a light bulb, took him 4 hours with full bag. It was a record for free climb in our company. It didn't have an elevator system.

Highest I ever got was about 250' and for a guy that is afraid of heights, thats up there. My first tower was just outside of St. George, had to free climb 100' with no ladder system building a new tower.

I still have a lot of buddies that do that...crazy son's of b*tches.

 

[gijohn40]

back when I was a kid I actually climbed a 300 foot tower and replaced the light at the top... I had no problem with it... we had just basic rock climbing gear on and that was all you had.. that was like in 83. Now days they have all kinds of special gear they have to have with them to make a simple climb like we did...

Having been in a army huey helicopter that lost its transmission at 4000 feet I get scared looking over the edge of a 1 story house... yet for some reason at work I always get the task of climbing the extension ladders and tying them in before everyone else comes up...

 

[anderson750]

Oh the memories... I used to work for a local tower company many years (and pounds) ago. 1700' is short. I never got the chance, but there are towers of the same type in the Oklahoma area that are over 2500 plus. My old forum had to climb 2500' just to change a light bulb, took him 4 hours with full bag. It was a record for free climb in our company. It didn't have an elevator system.

Highest I ever got was about 250' and for a guy that is afraid of heights, thats up there. My first tower was just outside of St. George, had to free climb 100' with no ladder system building a new tower.

I still have a lot of buddies that do that...crazy son's of b*tches.

The highest I have climbed is 120'. I was 18 years old and convinced my dad that it was ok for me to change our mid tower lights. That was high enough for me.

Having dealt with tower climbers for a while....they are a strange goup of people.........Bear, that explains a lot about you.