Two Stroke Motocross
Two Stroke Motocross Forum => Non-Moto => Topic started by: westsiderippa on September 16, 2010, 09:58:36 PM
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click the link then watch the video. i hope it still works they are yanking it all over the web. i guess these guys are not supposed to working without safety lines and from what i read this is a very tight small group of workers world wide.
http://www.casttv.com/video/ne5b3ne/radio-tower-worker-swth-flv-video (http://www.casttv.com/video/ne5b3ne/radio-tower-worker-swth-flv-video)
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Another impressive climb.
Catherine Destivelle climbing solo in Mali (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N70DLM8Az_8#)
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And who can forget the guys in Paris doing pull ups off a crane tower without safety gear?
Completely crazy climbing on a tower crane (no safety) !!!! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68fJP35FxyQ#)
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yeah, no... it took me 2 years to jump off a 30ft high dive.
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I love flying in airplanes, helicopters, and such. To me it's a thrill as great or greater than riding. However, although heights don't bother me at all when flying, heights absolutely bother me the rest of the time. Ladders, for example, are just all kinds of bad for me, I hate them with a passion. Understandably, then, that first video made me squirm and shiver with discomfort. I simply cannot believe that anyone has enough massive brass balls to do such things. I would be reluctant to do it even if the tower was only five feet high and the ground was made out of ten layers of the finest and softest of feather pillows. But to go more than a QUARTER MILE straight up, with no safety gear or anything, clinging onto a little metal platform with your ass hanging over the countryside...
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I'll paste the direct video here so its easier:
Radio Tower Worker - SWTH.flv (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRg9StpwRsg#ws)
But ya, this is a crazy video, especially since when it starts out you're like, oh he's in a cage, then he's at the top you're like ok, he's done. Then he keeps going. Then you're like oh ok, he reached this point, nope, not done yet. Then he climbs again and there's like 5 times when you're like, Ok, he's done, but no then it's another 60 feet! I mean he went to the birds nest on that thing and he's standing there on top of that light. Completely crazy, and I was thinking, you know, it's much easier to go UP than is would be to go back DOWN! Not that going up was easy, I was just thinking of trying to transition between those different types of climbs going back down!
I was also thinking you couldn't be hung over and do thisjob! What if you go to the top and you had to take a pee, would you do it off the top of the tower?
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Here's a good blog about it:
http://mattmitchellfiction.com/unabashed/2008/07/tower-dogs/ (http://mattmitchellfiction.com/unabashed/2008/07/tower-dogs/)
Doing a search, its not uncommon for people to fall.
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Those guys must be extremely fit. I've done a lot of hiking and mountain biking and a 2000 ft change in elevation is no small thing. Can you imagine "oops" one of the guys drops a ballpeen hammer!
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I hate heights... :-[ I hate heights so much, that watching the video is hard for me to do... If my family's survival depended on me dealing with heights, sorry guys were are going to starve.... These guys simply amaze me.
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Are you effin' kidding me???? No way, no how, not ever!!!! I'm uneasy in a 15 ft high bow hunting tree stand, and I have a safety harness on and am sitting down!
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Holy crap... that was a hard video to watch for me... I don't like heights and that was nerve racking! My hands are all sweaty and clammy just from watching that.
Many members of my extended family, including my dad, worked in the Iron Workers Union in New York City. They worked from the late 1950's through to the 1980's in that field. I've seen them do stuff that was absolutely frightening... At heights that I could never bring myself to climb, which were not high at all compared to what these radio tower guys do.
The one thing that video does not convey is the wind factor... even a slight breeze can be frightening! The other thing to keep in mind is that the towers most likely have a little "sway" built into them. Which means that it's not like climbing up a solid object, it sways back and forth like a tree!
My dad pointed out the the Twin Towers (a building her worked on in the early 1970's) swayed approximately 3 feet from side to side at the top!!
I'm with Eric.. I would not be able to do that....
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Amazing as that was, you have to hand it to the men of yore for the way they dealt with heights.
(http://i527.photobucket.com/albums/cc358/putu4u/people/ebbet/6b.jpg)
"Dammit, I dropped my sandwich. That thing cost me three days' pay!"
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yah, my hands were sweating to, lol. how gnarly would that video be if it was on one of thoe big imax screens, i bet people would be puking all over the theater, hahaha.
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Or how about IMAX in 3D like they had when they showed Avatar? I know at least a few people lost it on that one, and it wasn't nearly as spooky (although there were some damned big distance shots in that movie).
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Amazing as that was, you have to hand it to the men of yore for the way they dealt with heights.
(http://i527.photobucket.com/albums/cc358/putu4u/people/ebbet/6b.jpg)
"Dammit, I dropped my sandwich. That thing cost me three days' pay!"
That is the kind of work my dad did!!
That particular photo looks like it's from the 1930's though! For those that know NYC you can see Central Park in the background.
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Yeah, that one is presumably from the construction of the Empire State Building, because that's what I typed into Google.
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I like heights it,s exciting gets your blood pumping and keep you extra sharp. When I was about 8 yrs. old, I had to climb the inside steps on a silo with a fork in 1 hand,then pich corn siledge down. I was more worried about the gases in the silo,making me pass out. Then climbing on top of the silo, to shoot pigeons and any other birds,with my bb-pellet gun was alot of fun. Anytime I grabbed my gun,the cats where fired up. I worked as a tree trimmer-climber,your basically a human monkey with a chain saw,I moved to New Hampshire with 230 dollars in my pocket, I got the job over the phone. I worked for acme tree surgery-cool name 1st in Wi., the owners kid bankrupt the co. I cut my knee with the chain saw at acme,36 stitches only missed 5 days of work. At a utily co. I worked for I hung pipe on bridges, with no safety harness, we had a suicde-jumper over us on a high bridge, I really didn,t want him landing on me and bring me down with him. The most fun I ever had, being high up,was bungee jumping after work with a bunch of beer in all of us, down in Florida, when your springing up and down you laugh so hard. I wanted to keep my eyes open all the way to the ground, but I blinked my hands hit the cushion. You pickup some pretty good speed,the wind is howling in your ears,then you start bungeeing,everyone wants a longer free fall, it,s a awesome feeling.
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Its not the fall that worries me, its the sudden stop... :o
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This kind of thing just isn't my cup of arsenic.
GoPro HD HERO camera: Base Jump Movie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRzhBkZNQFI#ws)
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One job I was involved in was the dismantling of a three story lime plant. All the dangerous work was done by members of a certain well known biker gang and they thought nothing of walking down a narrow lime covered steel I beam three stories up. There were pigeons flying everywhere and I was glad when that job ended.
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Not a fan of heights either. :-[
My first and only bungee jump was of the Victoria Bridge in Zimbabwe back in the 90's.
110 metres straight down into the river below.
I talked the jump instructor to let me jump backwards.
Being a kiwi he believed me that I had done countless jumps. ;)
I was well and truly shitting myself.
Anyway going of backwards I think helped because I couldn't see the water rushing up to meet me. :o
Having not slept for 2 days ( the truck blew a gearbox in Malawi ), and having a lager breakfest may have helped as well. :-X
After 2 days of drama with the truck & customs, when we arrived in town the breakfast was warranted.
Sufficed to say I havn't jumped off a bridge again.
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Bungee Jumping Victoria Falls (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dIwsH5ciVs#)
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Bungee cord scare (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYX3-Q8IB-Q#ws)
Bungee cord snaps, TN youth dies (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_tjLUo2jB8#)
Bungee Cord Breaks During Jump, Caught On Video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s1zE5LS8dY#)
Don't Bungee Jump in Acapulco (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7s6oXNBEdQ#ws)
I'll pass on the bungee jumping. ;D
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After a 30-second search, I couldn't find how many people are killed bungee jumping each year. However, I get the impression that bungee jumping results in about as many deaths as people swimming in shark-infested waters. Which is to say, almost zero. Personally, I'd avoid the heights and take the shark option. And did I ever mention that the Mako is my favorite kind of shark? :D