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Holy smokes... Pretty neat vid.
Any comments or enlightening thought Calimarikid?
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The Long Commute.
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scumbag
- Barista of Doom
- Location: Dubbya-Eh
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calamari kid
- Ayatollah of Mayhem
- Location: Lake Shitty
Man I miss working the big towers. I haven't been over 200' in a couple years. There's something elemental about reaching the top of a 1k' tower with the sun rising and Bach's Toccata Fugue in D minor blasting on the ipod.
Not as well as you'd think. $25/hr is doing pretty good.SSCAM wrote:BALLS!
I'll bet these dudes are paid well.
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"Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba...." -Hunter S Thompson
"A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on." -William S. Burroughs
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Bigshankhank
- Fully Autonomous Cock-Puncher
- Location: Exiled to Living in a Van Down By The River
- Contact:
I've climbed 300' towers before, but never without a static line and a rope-grab device. Once you learn to trust the harness, the fear starts to go away. Why these individuals climb the upper mast without a static line, makes no sense to me. It does not slow you down, except when you are falling which, of course, is the point.
It's time for Humankind to ditch the imaginary friends of our species' childhood and grow the fuck up.
-Davros
"Lasse mich deine Seele dem Herrscher der Finsternis opfern"
Let me sacrifice your soul to the ruler of darkness
Always carry a bottle of whiskey when you travel in case of a snakebite. Futhermore, always carry a small snake.
-Davros
"Lasse mich deine Seele dem Herrscher der Finsternis opfern"
Let me sacrifice your soul to the ruler of darkness
Always carry a bottle of whiskey when you travel in case of a snakebite. Futhermore, always carry a small snake.
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Jaeger
- Baron von Scrapple
- Location: NoVA
- Contact:
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roadmissile
- Chief Marketing Schwaggerizer
- Location: CO
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Toonce(s)
- Asshat Spambot
- Location: south of cheese
Meh. 3rd classing. Big, predictable hand and footholds everywhere. Being a mere 50 feet off the deck would make you just as dead if you were to come off.
Now THIS....
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(John Bachar did die climbing in 2009, though he was nearly killed in 2006 in a serious car accident)
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(John Bachar did die climbing in 2009, though he was nearly killed in 2006 in a serious car accident)
It's a stack of fuck-shit on top of itself, Ninja.
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dozer
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wow. parachuting down not an option? all i can think about is doing his shift up there, being tired as fuck, and having to climb the whole way down before riding home.
"All you lazy bastards, you don't build no castles!"
-Jim Bishop.
-Jim Bishop.
Sisyphus wrote: If, on the other hand, a full-on revolution starts within one year, you will provide me your mailing address and I will send you the balsa wood box for you to eat. Provided I haven't already eaten it. In which case I will send you an object of equal or lesser value that hasn't been eaten, provided it is as edible as balsa and is of nearly equvalent volume (empty).
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Jaeger
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Dude, that's awesome. I'm actually jealous. That would be cool.calamari kid wrote:There's something elemental about reaching the top of a 1k' tower with the sun rising and Bach's Toccata Fugue in D minor blasting on the ipod.
That's really fucked up. What're they doing up there, anyway? Any idea? I'm sure that wasn't done just for fun... was it?calamari kid wrote:Not as well as you'd think. $25/hr is doing pretty good.
Imagine getting up there and suddenly getting a case of the shits.dozer wrote:wow. parachuting down not an option? all i can think about is doing his shift up there, being tired as fuck, and having to climb the whole way down before riding home.
--Jaeger
<<NON ERRO>>Bigshankhank wrote:The world is a fucking wreck, but there is still sunshine in some places. Go outside and look for it.
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calamari kid
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None of the antennas I've worked have had any kind of installed safety line. Most safety lines that are on towers are 3/8" steel cable as a standard static line wouldn't last a month being beaten against the tower by the winds at that elevation. A steel line gets cooked by the RF and becomes brittle which is my guess at why they aren't installed on the antennas. That actually killed a couple guys I worked with briefly. They left their steel winch line on the tower running past an FM antenna over night, and instead of climbing rode the line up the tower. The line snapped, two guys died and another is a vegetable.
It's not real technical climbing for sure, basically just a ginormus jungle gym. It can get interesting when you're on a monopole with limited pegs and you have to climb out/over/around another carriers installation. I saw a pretty tough guy puke from nerves after a particularly hairy monopole climb once.
I'm normally anti gloves myself, but it didn't take me long to adopt them for this gig. There are all kinds of odd pointy bits that you can grab without knowing they're there, not to mention how cold the steel can get. I sure wouldn't want to be looking at a down climb with a couple blocks of ice on the ends of my arms.
I'm thinking that they were troubleshooting the beacon light. There's not much else to do at that level, and they had too many tools for a simple bulb change.
As far as the shits, ya just hang it out on the leeward side and let fly. I worked with a guy who had Crohn's disease which is a nasty gastrointestinal affliction. He utilized a bolt bucket and sent it down the line, a guy in the middle of the tower grabbed the bucket to keep it from getting hung up and wasn't too pleased. He didn't realize that "shit coming down" was meant to be taken literally
It's not real technical climbing for sure, basically just a ginormus jungle gym. It can get interesting when you're on a monopole with limited pegs and you have to climb out/over/around another carriers installation. I saw a pretty tough guy puke from nerves after a particularly hairy monopole climb once.
I'm normally anti gloves myself, but it didn't take me long to adopt them for this gig. There are all kinds of odd pointy bits that you can grab without knowing they're there, not to mention how cold the steel can get. I sure wouldn't want to be looking at a down climb with a couple blocks of ice on the ends of my arms.
I'm thinking that they were troubleshooting the beacon light. There's not much else to do at that level, and they had too many tools for a simple bulb change.
As far as the shits, ya just hang it out on the leeward side and let fly. I worked with a guy who had Crohn's disease which is a nasty gastrointestinal affliction. He utilized a bolt bucket and sent it down the line, a guy in the middle of the tower grabbed the bucket to keep it from getting hung up and wasn't too pleased. He didn't realize that "shit coming down" was meant to be taken literally
"Go soothingly on the grease mud, as there lurks the skid demon." -Honda manual circa 1962
"Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba...." -Hunter S Thompson
"A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on." -William S. Burroughs
"Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba...." -Hunter S Thompson
"A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on." -William S. Burroughs
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dozer
- Hammer Time
- Location: umbc
- Contact:
wait, you fucking poop from up top on those towers?! that is the most awesome/disgusting thing I have ever heard.
"All you lazy bastards, you don't build no castles!"
-Jim Bishop.
-Jim Bishop.
Sisyphus wrote: If, on the other hand, a full-on revolution starts within one year, you will provide me your mailing address and I will send you the balsa wood box for you to eat. Provided I haven't already eaten it. In which case I will send you an object of equal or lesser value that hasn't been eaten, provided it is as edible as balsa and is of nearly equvalent volume (empty).
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Bigshankhank
- Fully Autonomous Cock-Puncher
- Location: Exiled to Living in a Van Down By The River
- Contact:
What do you think towercrane operators do when teh time comes? They sit up in that cab 12 to 16 hours a day, #2 will come to visit at some point. Most keep a small bucket with some "blue-juice" they get in a bottle from the port-o-john septic truck. C'mon Dozer, everyone here knows the question you really want to ask pertains to masturbation up there..."mast"-turbation?dozer wrote:wait, you fucking poop from up top on those towers?! that is the most awesome/disgusting thing I have ever heard.
It's time for Humankind to ditch the imaginary friends of our species' childhood and grow the fuck up.
-Davros
"Lasse mich deine Seele dem Herrscher der Finsternis opfern"
Let me sacrifice your soul to the ruler of darkness
Always carry a bottle of whiskey when you travel in case of a snakebite. Futhermore, always carry a small snake.
-Davros
"Lasse mich deine Seele dem Herrscher der Finsternis opfern"
Let me sacrifice your soul to the ruler of darkness
Always carry a bottle of whiskey when you travel in case of a snakebite. Futhermore, always carry a small snake.
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Sisyphus
- Rigging the Ancient Mariner
- Location: The Muckworks
- Contact:
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tumbler
- The Business
- Location: Carmichaels, PA
- Contact:
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calamari kid
- Ayatollah of Mayhem
- Location: Lake Shitty
We travel pretty regularly, mostly in Washington, but I've been all over the country with the gig. The amount will vary from company to company. Companies that do radio and TV towers will tend to travel more because the sites are fewer and further between than cellular sites. Companies that do cellular work will vary depending on how many carriers they work with and the size of the local market. The more sites you can work locally the less you need to travel to find work. I spent the first three months of this year out of town, and have been out for a week here and a couple days there in the time since.Sisyphus wrote:Huh. I just did an 85' mast this afternoon and I have to say that after the first 50 feet or so it really is all the same. I think in the past I've done 120 or so.
Do you have to travel much to do this job?
If you're thinking about looking into getting in let me know and I can poke around to see if I know anyone who knows anyone in your area worth checking out. You might ping Priest too, he used to climb.
"Go soothingly on the grease mud, as there lurks the skid demon." -Honda manual circa 1962
"Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba...." -Hunter S Thompson
"A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on." -William S. Burroughs
"Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba...." -Hunter S Thompson
"A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on." -William S. Burroughs
-
Sisyphus
- Rigging the Ancient Mariner
- Location: The Muckworks
- Contact:
I'm just thinking at this point. With winter approaching it's not the kind of gig I'd want. Northern New England (read: Maine, NH) in the winter can be pretty shitty and I'm kind of a pussy these days. But if all else fails I have a family to feed and $25/hr is pretty reasonable to me. Considering it's skilled labor and you're working for someone else that's alright.
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