Quote (MrMoJoRising @ Oct 5 2010 08:24am)
I dedicate this video to Todd.... The only person I know who would actually try something like this.
Hey Todd, if it doesn't work out at your current job, I heard they are looking for more people like this and the job pays well!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiC6WZpm9Ms
Believe it or not, I used to build towers back in 1999--it's what got me into cellular. Notice this guy free climbed most of it--just as I did. Last year or the year before it was determined via an article from RCR that Tower Climbing was the most dangerous job in America. Also, last year, a place in Cincinnati (Over the Rhine) was determined to be the most dangerous place in America.
So yea, Been there Done That
(My highest was only a 450 self supporter though--never did radio towers)
BTW: these ppl don't make crap. They start out at $10/hour. The reason I was able to get a job when I did was because a guy died on one of the crews the month before--I got his vacant spot. My foreman had black fingers from frostbite and the job was the worst job I ever did in my life. Try working 14 hour shifts 300' in the air with 40-50mph wind when it's 10 degrees outside base temp. The steel you have to hold onto is FREEZING, you're tired as hell, the wind is cutting you, ppl are dropping shit constantly cause their hands are numb, and the retards I worked with smoked pot on the tower all the time. I quit after a spud wrench (picture a mix between a huge wrench a foot long that comes to a point at the other side) was dropped from 200' up and chipped out 1/2" of concrete 3 feet from me.
Climbing isn't the most dangerous thing imo--it's the ppl dropping stuff all day. However, a lot of ppl fall from free climbing.
This post was edited by Stok3d on Oct 5 2010 07:02am