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Grandpa Pipes · 09-16-2010, 10:48 AM

If you're like most folk's this video will make your heart race with fear or apprehension !!

YouTube - Climbing high broadcast tower

The people that do this work really are special people !!

motormaker · 09-16-2010, 11:06 AM

Here's another good one.

YouTube - High Voltage Cable Inspection

SATX56 · 09-16-2010, 12:10 PM

The preceding were and are not on my bucket list!

YouTube - Live Like You Were Dying - The Bucket List (Music Video)

PJSinger · 09-16-2010, 02:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Tightwad

If you're like most folk's this video will make your heart race with fear or apprehension !!

YouTube - Climbing high broadcast tower

The people that do this work really are special people !!

Holy cow, Tightwad! That was some show! I can't believe OSHA allows them to free-climb without being tied off.

Doesn't it seem like it would be easier to just deliver the worker to the top via helicopter? Perhaps helicopters aren't allowed in that neighborhood for security reasons. I'm not afraid of heights, but this is NUTS!

jeepgirl27 · 09-16-2010, 02:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Tightwad

If you're like most folk's this video will make your heart race with fear or apprehension !!

YouTube - Climbing high broadcast tower

The people that do this work really are special people !!

Oh my...Im so afraid of heights
I have to say I do respect them

ditchlights · 09-16-2010, 03:39 PM

I have done similar stuff like this in dreams before, and they seldom ended pleasantly. I would rather be a bulletproof vest tester! LOL! I would feel a little more secure if I at least had a parachute strapped to my back, like a BASE jumper, not to mention that it would be a much more convenient way to get down after doing the work. Just watching that video made my arms weak. And to think that pro atheletes are the ones making multi million dollar a year salaries and not these guys........

Grandpa Pipes · 09-16-2010, 03:56 PM

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Originally Posted by ditchlights

And to think that pro atheletes are the ones making multi million dollar a year salaries and not these guys........

A VERY well taken point ! Yes, indeed!

Every micro second these guys are on the job they carry death in a back pocket. Now that's steel in your spine!

rgomez912 · 09-16-2010, 04:01 PM

I think someone on that video stated the pay was 13$ - 25$. They deserve more than that for what they do O.O

-Edit- Looks like the video got taken down do to copyright claims

Grandpa Pipes · 09-16-2010, 04:29 PM

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Originally Posted by rgomez912

I think someone on that video stated the pay was 13$ - 25$. They deserve more than that for what they do O.O

-Edit- Looks like the video got taken down do to copyright claims

Rats!! That video was really, really worth watching.

EDIT TO ADD THE REASON VIDEO WAS TAKEN DOWN: http://www.theonlineengineer.org/TheOLEBLOG/

rgomez912 · 09-16-2010, 06:00 PM

Well now that it is on the web it will never be gone. In the comment section on that weblink there are comments saying other sites have the video up and that some people all the way on the other side of the would have seen this video.

It is bad since his friend is in the video and he was doing stuff he was not suppose to be doing. As in free climbing that tower without being tied down. Hope his boss does not see it O.O