If heights bother you, don't open this thread
This gave me the willies just sitting in my chair. Heck of a way to make a living but you can't beat a 55mile view
I warned you
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Holy Crap, they have not yet printed enough money to get me up there. Those guys are NUTS. Thanks for sharing but no thanks.
Jeff
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HOLY CRAP!!! I had to turn it off! LOL! Not a job for me, thats for sure........One wrong move and GOODBYE!
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Seen that one before, but you suckered me into watching it again!
you couldn't pay me enough to do that. no way, no how...
Were they going up there to replace the light? The narrator really didn't say the intent of the climb.
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Cool video. Now I'd like to see them climb down. That looks like it might be even more of a head ache to get back down. At least going up your looking up at your steps. Going down you can get vertigo real quick I bet.
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I've seen this before too, but my hands still got sweaty just watching it again. Got me curious though, and I found this: "the tower climbing job[COLOR=#454545][FONT=Arial] has more fatalities per 100,000 workers than any other job in the U.S. according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)."[/FONT][/COLOR]
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Long time ago we installed cell phone stations ( the buildings at the base not the tower )and they each had some type and different heights of towers.....Well.....the one that I climbed was 309 ft high......YES I was young and dumb....but to get that high it took around 45-50 min and the view was spectacular ......when finally getting to the top the other guys started to whistle the trapeez song and the whole tower started to swing-sway and you wanna talk bout scared.....I will never do that kinda s#*& again......YOU Don't get a second chance...
Thanks for sharing that vid
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Ooops, I left my 5/8" wrench on the truck........
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Heights don't bother me, it's my job! I'm a tower climber by trade. The pics are small but this is only a 300-footer in Texas.
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OMFG!!! There is not enough money in the world to get me to do that! He just kept going up! Thought he'd reach the top and then he'd just go higher! That is just crazy!
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