The tower painter came down from our relatively low 300-foot TV tower every day covered in paint. Spent half his pay at the tavern that night and was back up bright and early the next day. I wonder how long he lasted.
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What a huge disconnect between the narrator and the actual video. I was almost expecting him to go into how to collate copies in the mail room.
Does make me wonder why they don’t use a helicopter to get to the top… They do this for power lines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxDKVAYJ_t4
It’s the low-res that’s making you woozy. BB should find a 4K version.
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I know a guy who climbed a 2000’ TV tower in the Midwest in the eighties, to jump off of it with a parachute. He says that free climbing is just fine - your arms refuse to let you fall. But he didn’t climb on the antenna itself, just inside the triangular truss structure (he had no elevator key). He waited for the wind to be blowing midway between the guy wires before jumping.
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On stadium lights and other smaller towers I’ve frequently seen a static steel cable that runs the height of the tower that has a fall arrest attachment to it that slides up and down the cable, but I guess the climbers have to manually position the attachment as they come down. On shorter, temporary towers I’ve seen self-belay reels, but if someone forgets to stay clipped in as they come down, someone is going to have climb up to get that self-retracting line and haul it down.
At the very least, that tower in the video seems very poorly designed for climbing. The transition to the pole seems really unnecessarily awkward.
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That’s a no from me.
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How many engineers does it take to change a lightbulb on a 1768ft tower?
None. We draw up a work order for a technician to handle that.
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Is that an Imperial Stormtrooper just below him at 2:07; I guess that’s what it takes!
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Title of your sex tape.
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Not “Roger That!” ? Awww.
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The video below used to be my favorite acrophobia generator. Maybe not anymore…
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Yeah, that works too.
Damn, this joke never ends.
Somebody help me stop.
Etc…
Nine-nine!!
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Shouldn’t happen, I can see lightning prevention doohickeys. They prevent the air and ground from having a high enough difference in electric charge for lightning.
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It does build up nicely. Ho, nice big ladder, where’s the problem? Okay, thinner ladder, but still firm, right? Wow, we are getting a bit exposed here. And then the little stubs on either side of the pole, oh god… The last bit should have been made of wood with steps cut out of either side. Or bamboo.
That’s as far as I got too. I thought to myself “This is not going to get any better…” as the vertigo started to kick in.
This one doesn’t seem so bad, but probably because the camera is on the ground and not on the person’s head.
I love his videos showing how he installs wooden ladders all the way up brick chimneys, using just himself and another guy, no crane or scaffolding to aid them. The measly two removable pitons and two short pieces of rope per ladder seem extraordinarily insufficient, yet were SOP for decades :-0
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For me at least, that’s a giant NOPE. (too fat, too out of shape.) Climbing like that is for young and sturdy people. 
Especially thin people, who will do the least damage to the equipment when they fall 
