Tower climbing video

[Suzy]

(don't watch if you have vertigo :blink: ) (via)

 

[Izack]

Wow. I would never be able to do that.

Unrelated, but that video only has only ~480 views ATM with no sensible tags, and yet has 88 comments. :blink:

 

[tl8]

This is why one becomes an engineer, to get technicians to do that...

 

[Spike Spiegel]

That has to be the gutsiest thing I've ever seen. I wouldn't even do that if you gave me a safety line AND a parachute.

 

[SiberianTiger]

This is also making cold sweat stream down my back:

Just to remind how powerful an electric arc may be:

http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=NQQMK1Rvq0A

 

[tl8]

I could do that job, I know the science behind it, and I know I can (partially) control it.

Gravity however, I can't (partially) control.

 

[Slice N Splice]

That dudes got guts, you couldn't pay me enough to do that, thats just super crazy...

That tower is about a mile high.

And on top of it all, they are way up there in that weather?
It could rain and lightning could kill them at any time...

Wow, the nerve of some people.

Climbing a ladder isn't anything, climbing a ladder 1768 feet is a whole other story.

 

[Quick_Nick]

How many technicians does it take to screw in a light bulb? Apparently two, with a lot of guts.

 

[statickid]

this is amazing! so is that whinnie the pooh powerline crawling guy

 

[Xyon]

That tower is about a mile high.

Actually 1/3 of a mile. 1,760 yards in a mile, three feet in a yard, 5,280 feet in a mile...

 

[Sky Captain]

That's nuts, especially the part where he had to go outside and climb those studs welded to main mast.

I have only climbed 60 m tall forest fire watch tower, but that had a safety cage around the stairwell so you would have to be especially careless to fall from that. On top of that transmission tower one small mistake and you fall.

 

[Keatah]

They only climbed a hundred feet or so. Pay attention to the beginning. They mentioned an elevator ride to to 1600. This is no big deal. LEO is a farther up than this!

 

[Rtyh-12]

They only climbed a hundred feet or so. Pay attention to the beginning. They mentioned an elevator ride to to 1600. This is no big deal.

Hundred feet isn't too much, but doing it 1600 feet above the ground is a completely different story.

LEO is a farther up than this!

:lol:

 

[SiberianTiger]

LEO is a farther up than this!

When at LEO, you are falling for such a long time that you may never actually hit the ground!

 

[Mojave]

Wow, I sure wouldn't have the guts to climb that high.

 

[flying coffin]

I used to do this. My Father worked for a TV station and I would regularly climb that tower. It was a 300 ft tower on top of a mountain, and I would climb about halfway up. I didn't want to go higher because close proximity to
316 kW is not good. There was a standby antenna that I would also climb
to the top of. It was not powered up except for emergencies to it was "safe" to climb to the top.

The scariest was when I worked for a radio station in Tahoe. 150 ft. guyed tower, no ladder, no safety line, hauling an antenna up to the top. When the wind blows (even a little bit) those things move around a lot!

 

[Artlav]

Awesome and terrifying at once.

All that just to change a light bulb.
Considering that's the light bulb that keeps the aircraft from hitting the tower, that's not quite a just.

I wonder if a lightning striking the tower would be a sure death for them?
After all, they aren't between the current and the ground.

 

[Turbinator]

They are grounded, if lightning hit, they would die.

 

[TSPenguin]

Great view up there. Next time, I suggest jumping off with a parachute

Actually 1/3 of a mile. 1,760 yards in a mile, three feet in a yard, 5,280 feet in a mile...

Let me just huggle my metric system here right now

 

[tl8]

I wonder if a lightning striking the tower would be a sure death for them?
After all, they aren't between the current and the ground.

Maybe, it wouldn't be pleasant, but it could be survivable (unless they fall off).