Could you do this job?

[Lodeus]

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For me its a really big [BLEEP] NO!

 

[casmith07]

No way. The only way I could is if I had 38 safety harnesses, and a parachute with reserve just in case.

 

[Lonestar94]

Only if I had a parachute and was paid a hell alotta money. Those guys have balls of steel.

 

[JonJon]

Aw Heeeeeeeell Naw! If I did do it, I would need a harness and parachute like Cas said, plus I would be the slowest climber ever.

 

[tomson75]

Absolutely

 

[theogt]

For the right amount of money, yes.

 

[roughneck266]

I used to do antenna maintenance on radio towers. The only thing about them that really scared me was the monstrous wasp nests on them. Work on a drilling rig now, we have a multi-purpose tower which is 150 feet high. I work on the top of it about every other day. Could have died a nasty death doing either one. WOULD not DREAM of doing this job! lol Doesnt make a darned ounce of sense, dead is dead I guess but I dont want it to take a full minute while I wait to get to it.

 

[Lonestar94]

I used to do antenna maintenance on radio towers. The only thing about them that really scared me was the monstrous wasp nests on them. Work on a drilling rig now, we have a multi-purpose tower which is 150 feet high. I work on the top of it about every other day. Could have died a nasty death doing either one. WOULD not DREAM of doing this job! lol Doesnt make a darned ounce of sense, dead is dead I guess but I dont want it to take a full minute while I wait to get to it.

Derrickhand?

 

[Kristi]

I'm not afraid of heights, but man, my heart sank when he looked down. No thank you. I'm sure that helmet will do you a lot of good if you fall off. At the end there he was like balancing on one foot!!! Not much room up there for them to get around. I would trust climbing up that itty bitty pole at the very top. And what do you do if you have to go to the bathroom? Launch it overboard?

It has to pay well - otherwise no one would do it.

 

[Joe Realist]

I have seen this video posted here a few times. No way Jose!

 

[SaltwaterServr]

:laugh1: @ 5:40

"If a storm blows through, there's no quick way down."

Sure there is, but you can only use it once.

May I add, if offered the job, my only reply would rhyme with "Duck Fat".

 

[kimrose]

I used to do antenna maintenance on radio towers. The only thing about them that really scared me was the monstrous wasp nests on them. Work on a drilling rig now, we have a multi-purpose tower which is 150 feet high. I work on the top of it about every other day. Could have died a nasty death doing either one. WOULD not DREAM of doing this job! lol Doesnt make a darned ounce of sense, dead is dead I guess but I dont want it to take a full minute while I wait to get to it.

My brother used to work on towers and antennas back in the '80's and early '90's. They were as high as the clouds it seemed. Crazy! He fit right in.lol. He helped build the Z107 tower somewhere around Liverpool (Angleton/Lake Jackson area) here in Texas. One time in the early '90's, he was working on some tower out of state. He had called in sick one day, so his foreman stepped into his place for the shift, they were good friends. Something went terribly wrong during the course of that day and a line snapped or something. There were no safety nets or anything, so the whole deck/scaffold they were on fell the entire way back to the earth, and all six workers (including the foreman that stepped in for my brother) were killed. My brother never got over that. He left the profession shortly after. Guilt overtook him, knowing that he was supposed to be up there, and his foreman had died filling his spot. And fear, I suppose. It's one thing to think something might happen, but then when you have such undeniable and monumentally cruel proof that it actually did, it changes your perspective. He was never the same person again, he completely changed.

My husband, lane on here, has to climb towers at his job, too. I hate it! There is one tower that is about 450 feet high! Luckily he's only had to go up that one a few times in the last 15 years, mostly he only has to do the 100 to 300 foot ones. But still, if you're gonna fall to your death, does it matter if your 150 or 450 feet in the air???

I have seen this video on The Zone before. It makes you dizzy. I really don't know how my brother or anyone else ever could have climbed towers/antennas so high.

 

[KJJ]

I have such a fear of heights I turned down an invitation to join a bridge club.

 

[Future]

The monotony of the narrator's voice doesn't do the scariness of this video any justice

 

[Zaxor]

nope couldn't do it...hell I repelled from copters, hang glided and other stupid stuff like hanging out on small rock outcropping off the zugspitz (highest mountain of the german alps) with a strong wind blowing but just watching that gives me the willies..perhaps if it was my own hands and feet and I could feel the solid grip i have on it it wouldn't be so bad...but just watching naw dawg he is going to be doing that alone.

 

[rynochop]

I've seen this a few times and I still get sweaty palms...so no I wouldn't/couldn't do that.

The guys not even using his harness half the time, least he has a hard hat on though.

 

[CliffnDallas]

Hell no! That mad me sick just watching it.

 

[Yeagermeister]

:eekmouse:

 

[Signals]

Yes, I could do it, would do it and have done it, but not to that height. I used to install satellite dishes on cell phone towers.

It's fun once you conquer your emotions.

 

[YosemiteSam]

:laugh1: @ 5:40

"If a storm blows through, there's no quick way down."

Sure there is, but you can only use it once.

May I add, if offered the job, my only reply would rhyme with "Duck Fat".

As roughneck stated. Even that way isn't a quick way down. You will have plenty of time to think about it on your way down. :laugh2: