here's a big climb for ya!

[imagineero]

Seems like a slow day for posts, here's a youtube vid to help pass the time.

1,768 feet, straight up! He gets an elevator ride most of the way up, but that last 60 feet...

[video=youtube;yCYZZPwJr_c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCYZZPwJr_c&feature=related[/video]

Kind of surprising that they don't have to clip in while climbing.

 

[conpewter]

Yikes, scares me just watching it

 

[bomar]

id have me a parachute incase i fell and when i was done working just jump and parachute down save ya some work climbing
down lol

 

[imagineero]

yeah I was thinknig the down climb would be more dangerous/freaky than the upclimb. Not being able to see where you're putting for feet and all.

Shaun

 

[CJ-7]

Man, that gave me the willies just watching the video. And just depending on your hands with no backup. I think I would wrap the line behind the vertical skinny pipe before hooking on to the foot peg, that would pull the hook in toward the pipe. Don't think I would trust that the big hook wouldn't slide off the end of the peg. And wouldn't that be GUYED tower not Gided tower? I suppose they hire them for skills other than spelling. Thanks for sharing.

 

[tramp bushler]

Like Clint said ( a man's gotta know his limitations. ) I'd wash dishes for a living before I'd do that. Yuk! !

 

[nahenaor0]

hierarchical

 

[formationrx]

....

#### that

 

[2treeornot2tree]

I dont even know how that guy can climb with balls that big. They said his tools were in that red bag, maybe that is the nice way to say balls. There is a guy a couple miles down the road from me that picks up my wood for me when i dont want it. He owns a tower maintenance company and they climb 300+ towers rain or shine even in the middle of the winter when its 30 degrees on the ground.

 

[imagineero]

Yeah... one of the great lines was something like "his climbing partner steadies his tool bag so it doesn't sway around and send him crashing to his death"

I kept looking at that bag that weighs something like 30lbs, thinking how it must get tangled up at any moment. Even if they do get an elevator ride up to 1600', thats still another 168' of vertical ascension on stuff that looks like maybe 1/2" bolts drilled into some 3" pipe. I hope they don't have rust at that elevation.

Shaun

 

[TreeAce]

amazing what some guys will do for 15 n hour . Do they build a tower like that from the bottom up? As is in adding to the bottom and pushing it up?

 

[2treeornot2tree]

Do they build a tower like that from the bottom up? As is in adding to the bottom and pushing it up?

Thats a very interesting question. I will ask that tower guy i know when i talk to him next time.

 

[CJ-7]

Do they build a tower like that from the bottom up? As is in adding to the bottom and pushing it up?

Typically they build them from the ground up, adding upper sections with a climbing jib boom and a worker running a winch with a very long cable. Although I saw a program which used a sky crane helicopter to lift larger sections than possible with the climbing jib. "Worlds Toughest Fixes" if I remember.

 

[k5alive]

that is the longest lightbulb change ever. :cool2: