Would you do this and for how much?

[Ed34]

I'm not afraid of heights but this terrifies me.

[video]http://www.break.com/index/climbing-a-1786-tall-tower[/video]

 

[Gio]

No way. I got fuckin dizzy just by looking at it.

 

[Zac C]

A friend of mine used to do that for a living in the 90's.

Work on communication towers that is.

He was up 1200 feet on the CN tower once working on a 6'x12' platform with no safety harness.

Back in those days I recall him telling me that he was making $20/hr or something like that.

 

[mariam]

Now is more like $40/hr and safety harness is mandatory.

 

[Bob Smith]

No money in the world would have be climbing that high or that low.

 

[Krystal]

I would do it only if a parachute is standard equipment.

 

[school]

Can I have a drink first?:happy:

 

[missmojo78]

No effin way! wow your life must have to be reeeeally boring to wanna do that

 

[HELP WANTED]

Yeah I'm surprised a small emerg chute isn't mandatory....

But I guess on older towers there isn't room to maneuver around with one on.

A couple of things, since they are supposedly "engineers" why haven't they installed a rappelling line so they can just slide down?

Or a manlift on a cable?

Or a tool box already situated on top of the tower so they don't have to carry it all with them everytime?

This reminds me of the guys who run the cranes used in highrise construction. I forget what amount of time they're given (3 hrs a day I think) to get up and back down. Plus they're forced by labour law to take a 10 minute break halfway.

See, the thing is, on items that go out of service on a regular basis, they could easily devise a system where it drops down on a shaft to the top of the elevator. There it can be maintained then winced back into position.

I have a feeling that that video was of a tower in some place like china or ?? because I can't see ANY labour ministry allowing a worker to freeclimb that high.

As for the statement: if a storm comes up, there's no quick way down...there is...JUMP lol......

(btw, I have an idea of how hard it is to work in a place like that, I've had to go up 60 feet and do some work one handed. It's a pain in the ass I tell ya.....)

 

[green eyed popsicle]

My gosh I would soil my pants and then free fall. Imagine getting dizzy with no harness, or just light headed. Let's say on the CN TOWER, they would come crashing down in downtown Toronto. No way I agree with TBOY , no way the Labour Ministry would allow it without safety harnesses.

 

[almarj70]

I knew a steel worker who did a lot of work in Manhattan (he was a heroin addict...go figure?) and he said that most of the steel workers hated the 2 fall arrest harnesses and having to hook one, unhook the other when passing by a vertical girder. I said to him "but if you happen to slip just once, you wouldn't be cussing them ever again".

I took a fall safety course and really, even a drop of 6' can be fatal. The teacher told us a story about a guy on a site (sparky) who was installing lightbulbs in the garage. He had like 5 more to do at quitting time so he stayed to do them. At the fourth one he slipped on the rung of the step ladder and fell off backwards breaking his leg. They found him in the morning dead. He died of blood loss due to internal bleeding.

Can you imagine though falling off that tower at 1700 feet? You'd have about 53 seconds before hitting the ground.

Oh, one more thing they taught us about fall safety. If at any time we're around someone who DOES fall and uses the harness? Grab a blanket because anyone who has ever fallen has shit themselves and the blanket is to save them some embarrassment......another thing they taught us? don't set the bungee at 12' if you're only up 10 lol.....She investigated an accident and the guy did just that. He fell from one floor to another and had the harness set for 2' longer than the floor height lol...(dumbass)

 

[Sam S]

I don't have an issue with heights/ vertigo, but even THAT is a bit much for your's truly! :gasp:

 

[stephenie duncan]

Wow, I wouldn't care what the pay is, no way!

 

[Bella <3 Jandro.]

Ok now I have to go home....I feel real funny after watching that: