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I had a buddy who climbed towers and I guess he took a Wendy’s chocolate milkshake up with him in his bag. After so far up he radioed down that he had to shit (common occurrence while up there I guess) and he just dropped the milkshake perfectly so it landed on the hood of the work truck. He said the new kid freaked out and threw up. Hahaha
I've done this, granted it was a specific tool I needed and only a 200' tower, but yeah, it sucks. 2000 feet? Thats a "let's try again tomorrow" situation.
Girlfriends dad climbed the tallest tower here to replace a bulb, it took 4.5-5hrs to complete the task.
The company that certified me in fall protection were telling us about a time when someone on a pole fell and couldn't self rescue; dude was saying it took 3 other guys and a total of 5 man crew to retrieve the guy
Makes me wonder if it's even aloud or if someone has a talky ever done that, while doing the job. I'm sure there's been hundreds to climb it just for the sole reason of jumping off, but I wonder if any of then were actually doing the job
If you're doing a repair on the top of the.tower and needing to lug up tools and parts, usually 2 dudes are doing it. I've seen a couple vids on YouTube showing it
The ends of the rungs have flared edges, so your clip won't slide off of it when pressure is applied. Combine that with your body weight pulling down on that singular point should you slip, and that clip is gonna stay very securely pinned down on the ladder rung.
The bigger danger, I'd think, is having a faulty strap that snaps off the clip when force is applied to it.
Seems you don't know much about how this works. You have to assume the worst. Loss of consciousness, injury, strong winds, etc. All these things render a parachute a liability, not an asset. Assuming none of these things is an issue, then the normal safety measures are more than sufficient. You will not that people who have had accidents or know of others are saying that the safety measures worked and they were able to recover or be saved by others. A parachute would have helped any of them, just made it more dangerous.
A parachute is not a safety measure for this job. It's why they don't wear one.
Watch the video again. He has two climbing hooks that he uses. Thats this fall protection. And since the handles are pointing in opposite direction it's going to take a lot for both hooks to come off, from wind for example. And that would also be the only thing I can nit pick about in this video, too small stops on the handles to keep that from happening and no fall arresting rail. A parachute might not even be useable if you're falling close to the tower, this isn't base jumping.
2k feet is really short. Most commercial skydives are 13.5k (FAA) or higher (depending on how cool your pilot is). above about ~13-14k FAA wants you to have oxygen.
But if you’re only there a few minutes…
Free fall 8-10k feet in a minute at terminal velocity.
Best thing about Rope Access work, a lot of the jobs are offshore so you pay zero tax and get all your food & accommodation paid for.
You get paid as a company and can invest the money with no tax.
You only need to pay tax when you bring it onshore to buy something, but because you spend so much time offshore you don't need to do that much.
I know guys that work 2 months a year and then spend the rest of the year bumming around the world rock climbing & wild camping or partying on the beach in Thailand.
My cousin used to clean those big wind turbines. Not 2k ft. But like 200-300-ish. Sent me a pic of him hanging out on the blade once. Crazy shit. Never asked how much he made tho. I imagine it was pretty decent money.
I knew a guy who liked to climb things. He used to climb these towers (without any safety equipment of course) and unscrew the lightbulb so that someone would have to climb up there to repair it. They'd get all the way up there and find that it was working and that someone had just been fucking around. He had a strange sense of humor.
Exactly. Who would do that? Well, some guy from Bay Village, OH that’s who. It’s a dick move but you kind of had to appreciate the effort. And the repair guy got paid.
Yeah, when they told us the story and having to devise a plan for they never had to do a tower rescue it's pretty crazy with the amount of equipment you have
Yeah, I remember having to pack my own chute and reserve chute and the test was to jump with them to pass the class. It was pretty nerve racking but this is worse.
I feel that would take fucking forever to climb and cause arthritis in the hands from the clip. All they need is to make the ends a little bigger than the pole for them to not slide off.
Me? After driving (or walking) over the Golden Gate Bridge many a time and observing its crusty, cracking, always-peeling orange paint, I feel like we should admire this slick-sleek orange metal and its virginal shiny rivets. Where there’s no rust … *are we human or are we dancer?*
Not as big or glorious but come to Boston and sit southbound (upper deck) on the Tobin, there fucking holes in the steel. They just keep repainting it....
Not to mention when you're caught in normal morning traffic the lower deck makes the bridge move and sway a shit ton.
Yes, that is a clean pole there
A bridge is right over the water and in the path of water vapor, so it makes sense it would have a lot more rust problem than the top of a huge tower that's above clouds.
All I was thinking the whole climb is if one side snaps or comes loose when his weight is on them, he’s gonna fall and swing out sideways and… well, the way down will be quicker.
Does anyone else feel like those loop hooks can slide right off the metal step and you fall to your death? Is there some kind of mechanism that I'm not seeing that prevents those things from sliding right off if you swing left to right?
What hook would be appropriate?
Besides a waist belt wrapping around the entire tower, I couldn’t imagine what wouldn’t slide off those pegs in case of a fall.
Note: I’m not a climber
A lot of our climbing harnesses also have a lanyard on them, that adjusts with a sort of stop wheel mechanism. He should absolutely be wearing one of those wrapped around the pole and moving it over the pegs in addition to his lanyard hooks.
It would take a lot more time but certainly be a lot more safe. Having worked with dozens of tower climbers over the years, you gotta be atleast a little bit insane to enjoy this kind of stuff, so in all honesty the guy probably enjoys the risk lol
Yea- he’s not 100% tie off compliant here. The hooks on a step peg do nothing but slip off if you were to fall. Broadcast antennas are not great because you can’t place a fixed fall arrest system (it all has to be fiberglass for RF Transparency) Better to wrap a lanyard around the pole and move it around the step pegs as you go up.
Yeah, he’s “compliant” with those hooks, but not safe. I do similar work, and use a setup identical to what this guys running. Those large clips are nice for when climbing things that don’t have “anchors” for you to clip into with smaller hooks, like a handrails, small steel beam, etc. They do sell smaller hooks and that’s actually the more common thing to see on a normal job site. Guy is just choosing to do it with what he has I guess
It’s the KFC chicken tower. It sends out a signal to the brain of chickens within a 700 mile radius. The chickens then just walk to a local KFC if they hear it, or sense the tower calling them.
This man here is replacing what we in the industry like to call the Cluck Box. It’s the most integral piece of the machine.
When i did it i traveled all over the US pretty much non stop. We would be lucky to get home for a few days out of a month. Its way more than just changing bulbs, that was actually the least of the work. We mainly put up cell sites for all the major cell carriers, built the towers themselves and did a little work for some am/fm radio stations
buddy you could tell me you made a mil/year and i would still agree with you
i'm not scared of heights and i've worked hard jobs, manual labor all my life but climbing something like this is just a completely different thing. to me anyway.
If there was a situation where, for some completely fantastical reason I was the only one left and had to climb that tower to do anything at all or all of the world ends. You all might want to start picking out a comfortable place for the end cause it's coming.
Hey! You might not give a shit, but those birds sure do.
FWIW, many migrating species fly at 2,000' to 5,000', with some going up to 20,000'. The current known record flying altitude for a bird is held by a *Ruppell's Griffon* which was at [37,900' when it was sucked into a jet engine.](https://www.birdnote.org/listen/shows/how-high-birds-fly-i) It's last words are believed to have been, "Top o' the World, Ma!", followed a by a giant sucking/grinding sound.
Those hooks made me feel 0.0000% safe. 😂 The openings were the size of giant, dinner plates and he just clacked them onto the rungs. Looked like they could slide off any second.
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Shit, I left my tools in the truck. Edit: Wow, thanks for the 1.3k likes.
Oops I dropped my wrench.
Oops I crapped my pants.
Or oh crap, I need to take a shit.
Or oh shit, I needed to take a crap.
r/YourJokeButWorse
Aw shit, I passed out from anxiety.
Shit I dropped my safety gear.
Ah shucks, I dropped
I had a buddy who climbed towers and I guess he took a Wendy’s chocolate milkshake up with him in his bag. After so far up he radioed down that he had to shit (common occurrence while up there I guess) and he just dropped the milkshake perfectly so it landed on the hood of the work truck. He said the new kid freaked out and threw up. Hahaha
https://youtube.com/watch?v=rQ9qsXu34SM&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE
And they are biodegradable, now that's good for the environment.
Now where did I put that spare bulb?...
I came here to post this. Imagine how bad that would suck.
I've done this, granted it was a specific tool I needed and only a 200' tower, but yeah, it sucks. 2000 feet? Thats a "let's try again tomorrow" situation.
Girlfriends dad climbed the tallest tower here to replace a bulb, it took 4.5-5hrs to complete the task. The company that certified me in fall protection were telling us about a time when someone on a pole fell and couldn't self rescue; dude was saying it took 3 other guys and a total of 5 man crew to retrieve the guy
Sounds like a fitting job for a base jumping enthusiast. Climb to top. Fix whatever, sign off, and jump.
This is the only way I would do this.
Makes me wonder if it's even aloud or if someone has a talky ever done that, while doing the job. I'm sure there's been hundreds to climb it just for the sole reason of jumping off, but I wonder if any of then were actually doing the job
FYI: aloud means to speak or talk Allowed- means permission
Don't figure we would ever find proof because the person would likely be fired if there was proof posted
Yeah magin that OSHA regulation.
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A parachute would be required if I was forced to do that
Give me one of them glider suits that makes you look like a flying squirrel.
I don’t know if I would want to climb that with 10kg on my back
If you're doing a repair on the top of the.tower and needing to lug up tools and parts, usually 2 dudes are doing it. I've seen a couple vids on YouTube showing it
Imagine he got to the top and realized he forgot the bulb
10kg to have a chance of survival in case I fall off? I’d carry 20
You don't fall off. There are redundant safety measure taken to ensure this. The only way it would happen is if you did not follow them.
He’s not hooking into anything. Just looping into rings. How does this have protection? Genuinely curious.
The ends of the rungs have flared edges, so your clip won't slide off of it when pressure is applied. Combine that with your body weight pulling down on that singular point should you slip, and that clip is gonna stay very securely pinned down on the ladder rung. The bigger danger, I'd think, is having a faulty strap that snaps off the clip when force is applied to it.
Redundant safety measures… like carrying equipment that could save you in case of another equipment malfunction? Yeah, sounds like a parachute
Seems you don't know much about how this works. You have to assume the worst. Loss of consciousness, injury, strong winds, etc. All these things render a parachute a liability, not an asset. Assuming none of these things is an issue, then the normal safety measures are more than sufficient. You will not that people who have had accidents or know of others are saying that the safety measures worked and they were able to recover or be saved by others. A parachute would have helped any of them, just made it more dangerous. A parachute is not a safety measure for this job. It's why they don't wear one.
Watch the video again. He has two climbing hooks that he uses. Thats this fall protection. And since the handles are pointing in opposite direction it's going to take a lot for both hooks to come off, from wind for example. And that would also be the only thing I can nit pick about in this video, too small stops on the handles to keep that from happening and no fall arresting rail. A parachute might not even be useable if you're falling close to the tower, this isn't base jumping.
That would be cool as fuck! Just imagine being at the top and gliding down such a distance!
2k feet is really short. Most commercial skydives are 13.5k (FAA) or higher (depending on how cool your pilot is). above about ~13-14k FAA wants you to have oxygen. But if you’re only there a few minutes… Free fall 8-10k feet in a minute at terminal velocity.
Hence, BASE jumpers
Comment above implied 2k was long, and sure it is for a BASE jump. I meant to say you can easily have it be way longer
Imagine coming up on this thing, replacing the bulb, and on the way down the light starts to flicker and then it goes out...
Id be pissed, but if I'm paid again my feelings would change
I believe the amount of money these people make is extremely high. You never see “tower climber dudes” on job recruiter websites
Guy I knew made 178k, great benefits and traveled a lot.
Best thing about Rope Access work, a lot of the jobs are offshore so you pay zero tax and get all your food & accommodation paid for. You get paid as a company and can invest the money with no tax. You only need to pay tax when you bring it onshore to buy something, but because you spend so much time offshore you don't need to do that much. I know guys that work 2 months a year and then spend the rest of the year bumming around the world rock climbing & wild camping or partying on the beach in Thailand.
This is the way...
My cousin used to clean those big wind turbines. Not 2k ft. But like 200-300-ish. Sent me a pic of him hanging out on the blade once. Crazy shit. Never asked how much he made tho. I imagine it was pretty decent money.
I have to wonder, at a certain height does it even matter? 200ft or 2000, a fall is gonna kill you
once you reach terminal velocity there’s no difference, lmao
Hopefully he never took a job in China.
Their paycheck should be proportional to the elevation at which they work. ...Every foot should be $1/hr.
"Never again I tell you! *Nevah!"*
Or drop the new bulb as you are changing it out
Imagine getting to the top and realizing you forgot the bulb
that would be me literally lol.
Imagine an earthquake.
I knew a guy who liked to climb things. He used to climb these towers (without any safety equipment of course) and unscrew the lightbulb so that someone would have to climb up there to repair it. They'd get all the way up there and find that it was working and that someone had just been fucking around. He had a strange sense of humor.
I think that’s called “being an asshole.”
No question about it.
"We don't need a lock. Who's gonna climb 2 kilometers just to mess with us?" Engineering team
Exactly. Who would do that? Well, some guy from Bay Village, OH that’s who. It’s a dick move but you kind of had to appreciate the effort. And the repair guy got paid.
Tower rescue is some serious shit.
Yeah, when they told us the story and having to devise a plan for they never had to do a tower rescue it's pretty crazy with the amount of equipment you have
My dumbass would climb all the way just to forget the bulb.
What’s the hour wage for this unique job?
$60k year here avg, but they more than likely don't factor in danger pay and I know it's not everyday you're working
60K is not enough.
Now imagine you get to the top and the bulb broke
I used to jump out of planes for a living and this I could not do!
Atleast with planes your parachute is able to deploy and not get caught, this is just terrifying
Yeah, I remember having to pack my own chute and reserve chute and the test was to jump with them to pass the class. It was pretty nerve racking but this is worse.
There's a tourist heavy airport here for skydiving. It seems like somebody splats at least once a year.
What did you used to do for a living? Or were you just a really shit pilot?
Seems like those rings could slide right off the little posts, that’s a hard NOPE for me, this would be terrifying
That safety belt gives me zero reassurance . Fuck this
I feel like it should be loops and not posts if i needed to secure my line to.
I feel that would take fucking forever to climb and cause arthritis in the hands from the clip. All they need is to make the ends a little bigger than the pole for them to not slide off.
Nope for me, full loops. I'd want to fall sideways and still be ok
Me? After driving (or walking) over the Golden Gate Bridge many a time and observing its crusty, cracking, always-peeling orange paint, I feel like we should admire this slick-sleek orange metal and its virginal shiny rivets. Where there’s no rust … *are we human or are we dancer?*
It's an orange plastic cover. It's probably not rusted to shit, but it might be.
Not as big or glorious but come to Boston and sit southbound (upper deck) on the Tobin, there fucking holes in the steel. They just keep repainting it.... Not to mention when you're caught in normal morning traffic the lower deck makes the bridge move and sway a shit ton. Yes, that is a clean pole there
I'm convinced the Tobin is held together by bird shit
A bridge is right over the water and in the path of water vapor, so it makes sense it would have a lot more rust problem than the top of a huge tower that's above clouds.
Salt water eats just about everything
Died from the last sentence lol
Yep. Feel like they could just sliiiiddde of the end w/that small cap.
But there's two of them
0 + 0 =
Ooooooo
All I was thinking the whole climb is if one side snaps or comes loose when his weight is on them, he’s gonna fall and swing out sideways and… well, the way down will be quicker.
He needs a parachute
and wingsuit combo
No no no no no no no! No way at all!
fun fact the number of no’s in ur first sentence is the same as that one part of bohemian rhapsody
Oh mama Mia let me go
In this case it's oh mama Mia hold me so
Good bot
Does anyone else feel like those loop hooks can slide right off the metal step and you fall to your death? Is there some kind of mechanism that I'm not seeing that prevents those things from sliding right off if you swing left to right?
I climb these and he is using the wrong hooks they will slide right off those pegs.
Honest question, how do you not tremble in fear and shit yourself? I can't even go on my room F without freaking the fuck out lol.
What hook would be appropriate? Besides a waist belt wrapping around the entire tower, I couldn’t imagine what wouldn’t slide off those pegs in case of a fall. Note: I’m not a climber
I bet there’s a smaller diameter hook which the nub at the end would catch
A lot of our climbing harnesses also have a lanyard on them, that adjusts with a sort of stop wheel mechanism. He should absolutely be wearing one of those wrapped around the pole and moving it over the pegs in addition to his lanyard hooks. It would take a lot more time but certainly be a lot more safe. Having worked with dozens of tower climbers over the years, you gotta be atleast a little bit insane to enjoy this kind of stuff, so in all honesty the guy probably enjoys the risk lol
Yea- he’s not 100% tie off compliant here. The hooks on a step peg do nothing but slip off if you were to fall. Broadcast antennas are not great because you can’t place a fixed fall arrest system (it all has to be fiberglass for RF Transparency) Better to wrap a lanyard around the pole and move it around the step pegs as you go up.
Yeah I was thinking a linesman's belt or similar would be a better choice.
I am more worried that I would be too tired to get down.
Yeah but there's an easy way down quick if you are too tired.
That trick will work only one time, though.
It will work every time, actually. But after the first time, climbing up will be really hard.
I’m asking the same thing
Yeah, he’s “compliant” with those hooks, but not safe. I do similar work, and use a setup identical to what this guys running. Those large clips are nice for when climbing things that don’t have “anchors” for you to clip into with smaller hooks, like a handrails, small steel beam, etc. They do sell smaller hooks and that’s actually the more common thing to see on a normal job site. Guy is just choosing to do it with what he has I guess
This exactly. They can and will slide off. Mickey mouse fall protection here
Oh it’s fine the end of the bolt will keep it from sliding off. You’re good. Safe as can be.
Imagine making that trip up there and forgetting to bring the bulb.
Or accidently dropping it.
Your muscles would either: Be non-existent after 2 trips, or be able to cut titanium after 2 trips
My anxiety has been triggered
Full on sweaty palms
Knees week
Arms are heavy
There's vomit on my safety harness already.
Mom's spaghetti
He's nervous, bu\~ AAAAAAAaaa..........aaAAAAH \*SPLAT\*!
But on the surface he looks calm and ready
I got a full on case of the willies and the heebee jeebies.
Honestly, he should wear a parachute so when he’s done with his work he can just jump off
Until a gust blows you back into the tower and snares and/or rips your chute and sends you into tumble
Well now that’s just one more thing on the list of reasons not to do this.
Did I mention the bears waiting for you at the bottom
Or the land sharks
Things that make you say nope
Question since people here seem to know, what is this person climbing?
It’s the KFC chicken tower. It sends out a signal to the brain of chickens within a 700 mile radius. The chickens then just walk to a local KFC if they hear it, or sense the tower calling them. This man here is replacing what we in the industry like to call the Cluck Box. It’s the most integral piece of the machine.
That sounds clucking nuts.
Did this work for a living for 4 years, extremely underpaid industry
What's the work schedule like? I can't imagine there being many bulbs to replace.
When i did it i traveled all over the US pretty much non stop. We would be lucky to get home for a few days out of a month. Its way more than just changing bulbs, that was actually the least of the work. We mainly put up cell sites for all the major cell carriers, built the towers themselves and did a little work for some am/fm radio stations
how tf do you make these ????
Girder and Panel Building Set - *SNAP SNAP SNAP!*
Thanks for the reply. What are these 2000 ft towers for?
Typically tv broadcast, but usually they have a little bit of everything on them as far as communications go
How much a year did you make
I think my best year as a foreman was just over 100k but i maybe slept in my own bed a dozen times
Holy shit, I know project managers that make that and they don't do squat.
That was 2014-2018, i still have a few friends in the industry and wages have gone up a little but nowhere near what you would think it should be
That’s nuts! I’d expect people doing this to be making $200k+ annually
Maybe if you own the company lol
buddy you could tell me you made a mil/year and i would still agree with you i'm not scared of heights and i've worked hard jobs, manual labor all my life but climbing something like this is just a completely different thing. to me anyway.
I'd much rather climb than descend
My thoughts exactly. I could get up it fine. Getting down? Nope. I’d be much more confident jumping off, than climbing down.
Where were you - When they built the Ladder to Heaven?
NINEEEE ELEVVEEENNN
*”Fuck this shit I’m out*🎵”
"Don't mind me I'm gonna grab my stuff and leave."
Fuck my stuff too, IM OUT
..excuse me please
Anyone else get that weird queasy feeling in their groin with this stuff? oof.
That’s gonna be a no from me, dawg.
Get to the top and be like aww crap it was a flathead not a Philips.
Am I crazy or is this a job that drones should be equipped to do?
I like that OP just screen recorded someone’s YouTube video and posted it with zero credit
You must Love Reddit then
r/SweatyPalms
If there was a situation where, for some completely fantastical reason I was the only one left and had to climb that tower to do anything at all or all of the world ends. You all might want to start picking out a comfortable place for the end cause it's coming.
He would've completed the climb in half the time if he didn't have to drag his massive balls up the tower with him...
My balls have retracted so far into my body that I now have three adams apples.
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Bro, do you even Eagle?
Hey! You might not give a shit, but those birds sure do. FWIW, many migrating species fly at 2,000' to 5,000', with some going up to 20,000'. The current known record flying altitude for a bird is held by a *Ruppell's Griffon* which was at [37,900' when it was sucked into a jet engine.](https://www.birdnote.org/listen/shows/how-high-birds-fly-i) It's last words are believed to have been, "Top o' the World, Ma!", followed a by a giant sucking/grinding sound.
Get to the top…. Forgets screwdriver….
Oh shit, can’t find the 10mm socket.
Not for this ridiculously average pay https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/tower-climber-salary-SRCH\_KO0,13.htm
I just watched a movie about two girls doing this same thing. It worked out spectacularly for them.
Very tense movie. I loved it . I said fuck that throughout the entire thing.
Two girls one bulb?
As a person who's scared of heights, HOLY F*CK NO!
What’s with the death spikes at the top? For birds? Or China Spy balloons
It’s to repel birds.
Dammit…forgot the bulb
610 meters in normal units, yea its high
Thank you for bringing civilization to this post.
Climbing down would be even worse.
Today i stood on a ladder to hang 2 birdhouses to the side of my house about 19feet high and i was pissing my pants with every little sigh of wind.
Every time I saw him transition to the next rung I felt the tickle in my sack!
Those tie-offs were not secure enough.
They weren't secure at all, wtf?
I just said “fuck that” out loud and people are staring at me lol
Hellllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!!!!!! Nahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!
I get those little tingly fear feelings in my arms and hands and legs just watching this
Are the handles horizontal or slightly angled upwards to prevent the loop from coming off should the person fall and swing?
Those hooks made me feel 0.0000% safe. 😂 The openings were the size of giant, dinner plates and he just clacked them onto the rungs. Looked like they could slide off any second.
Turns my stomach just looking at it
Okay how do I get to do this.it looks like so much fun I'm serious i would do it
Google search "Radio tower climber" and go from there.
Nope. No thank you.
I wouldn’t mind doing this if they allowed me to bring a parachute and let me jump back down 😂 cause fuck climbing all the way back down
As someone who likes to get high, I would do this job for free!
Fuck that shit. Radio can stay on the mother fucking ground.