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Offline westsiderippa

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stairway to heven, are you affraid of hights?
« on: September 16, 2010, 09:58:36 PM »
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
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Re: stairway to heven, are you affraid of hights?
« Reply #1 on: September 16, 2010, 10:59:41 PM »
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Re: stairway to heven, are you affraid of hights?
« Reply #2 on: September 16, 2010, 11:04:40 PM »

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) !!!!

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Re: stairway to heven, are you affraid of hights?
« Reply #3 on: September 16, 2010, 11:52:58 PM »
yeah, no...  it took me 2 years to jump off a 30ft high dive.
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Re: stairway to heven, are you affraid of hights?
« Reply #4 on: September 17, 2010, 12:17:34 AM »
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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Re: stairway to heven, are you affraid of hights?
« Reply #5 on: September 17, 2010, 12:27:34 AM »
I'll paste the direct video here so its easier:

Radio Tower Worker - SWTH.flv

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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Re: stairway to heven, are you affraid of hights?
« Reply #6 on: September 17, 2010, 12:51:05 AM »
Here's a good blog about it:

http://mattmitchellfiction.com/unabashed/2008/07/tower-dogs/

Doing a search, its not uncommon for people to fall.
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Re: stairway to heven, are you affraid of hights?
« Reply #7 on: September 17, 2010, 07:38:20 AM »
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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Re: stairway to heven, are you affraid of hights?
« Reply #8 on: September 17, 2010, 08:15:59 AM »
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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Re: stairway to heven, are you affraid of hights?
« Reply #9 on: September 17, 2010, 10:55:41 AM »
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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Re: stairway to heven, are you affraid of hights?
« Reply #10 on: September 17, 2010, 11:55:19 AM »
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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Re: stairway to heven, are you affraid of hights?
« Reply #11 on: September 17, 2010, 05:24:32 PM »
Amazing as that was, you have to hand it to the men of yore for the way they dealt with heights.



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Re: stairway to heven, are you affraid of hights?
« Reply #12 on: September 17, 2010, 08:03:23 PM »
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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Re: stairway to heven, are you affraid of hights?
« Reply #13 on: September 17, 2010, 10:30:02 PM »
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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Re: stairway to heven, are you affraid of hights?
« Reply #14 on: September 18, 2010, 12:37:09 PM »
Quote from: JETZcorp on September 17, 2010, 05:24:32 PM
Amazing as that was, you have to hand it to the men of yore for the way they dealt with heights.



"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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