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03-26-2013, 09:10 PM
Posted this on Bill Powell's blog recently after he wrote a post about climbing. This shit is crazy.
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03-26-2013, 09:23 PM
I don't see one woman doing this. It's definitely sexist and I don't think it's fair women don't have the right to climb 1,700 ft. towers and and possibly die.
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03-26-2013, 11:30 PM
Between this and the Indian sewer diver job, I don't know which I'd choose if you put a gun to my head.
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03-27-2013, 12:21 AM
I was fine watching this and thinking yeah I could do that if the money was good until it got to 6:37 when the guy looked down with one leg on the railing. Then I thought no not for me
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03-27-2013, 12:49 AM
That's nuts! No way I could do it. I have a bunch of friends who work on cell phone towers, but pretty sure they aren't free climbing. They don't make all that much either, maybe starting at $15 an hour but after a couple years probably making closer to 30. They definitely aren't climbing no 1700 feet though. That video was scary even to watch. I couldn't imagine being up that high. I used to be afraid of heights when I was younger. Being a snowboarder I got used to them. But I'm still not a big fan, and being up THAT high free climbing a tower, forget it.
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03-27-2013, 01:08 AM
A lot of these types of jobs have a "danger bonus" which is an allowance worked in that is not part of the typical wage. My buddy and his dad work in a mine and they get a bulk of cash from bonuses they would receive and they called it danger pay.
You could have 40K in "allowances" and "bonuses" added on that does not show up in your wage/salary, those types of situations are not uncommon.
I can't see how this guy whom has a high probability of dying on the job is making way less then a guy whom sits in a cushy Crane cabin on a Skyscraper build. Those Crane guys make $85-125/hr in many places. He does nto need the technical training as a Crane operator but I would hope that with bonuses and allowances factored in he is making 35-$65/hr.. at least.
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03-27-2013, 02:41 AM
Technically, if you fall from 50 ft. you're just as toast as if you fell from 500 or 2000 ft., but fear is not a rational thing.
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03-27-2013, 03:16 AM
Most of the time when you're climbing 50 ft though you have a harness.
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03-27-2013, 01:44 PM
Hes not wearing a hard hat for the fall, if he hit his head on one of the metal beams it could stun him or knock him out. Makes a lot of sense. What I don't understand is why he doesn't have all his tools on his body instead of carrying a bag on a rope.
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03-27-2013, 03:44 PM
As long as person uses a continuous 3 point stance when climbing ladders (2 hands and 1 foot/2 feet and 1 hand), they should be fine with all things remaining equal of course. (ie no wind, weather, no electrical shock, animals, or aircraft interfering)
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03-27-2013, 04:18 PM
Anyone else's legs get wobbly watching that vid?
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03-27-2013, 05:33 PM
A lot of the men who paint high transmission towers in the US are Greek. Don't know why this is.
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03-27-2013, 05:54 PM
I got dizzy just watching that.
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03-27-2013, 05:55 PM
That ain't shit! THIS girl climbed a 1,700 ft. ugly tree, fell, and hit every branch on the way down. And lived. The British gov installed her airbags to lessen damage from the next fall.
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03-27-2013, 07:01 PM
I do this for a living.
Its a lot of hard work, but the money is killer.