@@nathanarievlis3985 you're correct, I am always pleasant to my waiters, or anyone that is paid to do a service and is atleast trying. Also you don't want to fuck with anyone that is handling your food lol. Always tip well
@@SupraRy One time I didn't tip well, not at all in fact, but the service was so horrible I had no intention of going back to that place. I worked through college in a restaurant, and never was tempted to spit in someone's food no matter how rude they were. It isn't ethical for one thing. Two wrongs don't make a right. It's also illegal, and restaurant workers have been arrested for doing disgusting things to the food of customers.
I had experience working for Stratacom Engineers in cell tower construction in the late 1990's to 2000 along the East Coast. As a member of the military reserve at the same time I was activated for Operation Iraqi Freedom ('03-'04). While deployed in Iraq, the Dept of Defense in country found out that I had experience erecting monopole cell towers. The military had ordered 100' monopoles for military bases in Iraq and they were just laying in a service yard (Balad Air Base) with no idea how to put them up. Not long after my Active Duty service was over in July 2004, the DoD brought me back on Duty for 22 months (till Dec '06) erecting 100' monopoles at US bases in Iraq. The 'hazard pay' alone put my income over 6 figures.
I was a climber for about 6 years. Watched all walks of life try and fail and some conqueror their fears. Lol. Love sitting back watching first time climbers and remembering my first climb. 500 feet Elizabeth city Nc. My buddy did a "hurricane test" at about 250' lmao thought i was gonna die been in love with it ever since. Ps if you ever get offered a contract from Paul Knight , run!!! Great guy but all his towers are way overloaded with co ax. And damn near impossible to climb, he does treat ya to a good steak dinner after tho 😂😂😂😂 Good luck boys and stay safe, no express routes to the ground ya hear!
I'm currently working on a bridge 400 plus feet above the water.. replacing key operated locks on elevator hatches every 30 or so feet up the structure... I'm a locksmith by trade.. we do a fair amount of safe and vault work, mostly commercial physical security service.. door hardware, master key systems, access control.... Ground level type stuff. . I have some better than average experience in high angle rescue but that was nearly 20 years ago.. Needless to say the work is frightening .. this giant metal structure sways and vibrates like you can't believe .. the wind sets up harmonics that vibrate the whole thing and heavy trucks create waves of movement you can feel flexing the towers as loads are distributed .. almost feels like being in a Cessna or small boat sometimes..
Are you working on the maryland bay bridge? I know they are doing a lot of construction on it and they finished ahead of schedule and I believe that bridge is 400 feet above the water.
The morning after the fist time climb, you feel pain in every muscle of the body. If you stop during climbing and observe the clouds moving, it appears the tower is falling. Be safe in all climbing.
Easy job once you get about half a dozen climbs under your belt. Also helps to have the proper gear. Obviously arms and legs get tired, but what hurts the most after they climb is their hands. Gripping the ladder too tight. You have to learn to relax your hands. Proper gloves helps that a lot. As far as safety goes, trust your gear. As long as you use it right, you will not fall. Not might not fall. Will not fall.
@6:55 he had a “heart check”. Whatever device he was resting on, had a side loaded carabiner and the carabiner twisted to normal load. Lol it happens a lot and get me every time.
@@C_Cured how about when you lean back to put tension on your safety lanyard when you tie off to a member of the tower and you get that 2 inches of slack where you think you are gone .....we used to call it the 2 inch scare ! LOL
Forearms burning= death grip. Neck hurting= helmet for the first time. I know my neck hurt when I first started climbing towers from that damn hard hat. Climbing like this is a lot different than working trying to be huge. Fun as hell though
I topped out a 300' tower my 3rd go on a tower and only had been 50' twice before and had never wore that style harness or even knew what a positioning lanyard was or that you could even rest and take breaks! Being physical and capable mentally is what you need!
I've only been up 110, its was a great experience. So calm, quite and beautiful. Unforgettable. I didnt want to join the high tower crew and go up to 300ft. Lol
I used to do this job. Some tools, like cordless drills, do have lanyards, but it's kinda hard to put every tool in the bags on a lanyard. When you go up, you are taking two or three bags full of tools and parts because there is no way to just pop back down the tower to grab a tool you forgot. So you might have 3 or 4 of the same wrench in case you drop one. That would mean literally dozens of lanyards.
@@gsh341 that doesnt make sense why take 3 of the same thing so you got too much stuff to tie off incase you drop 1. Just take a third of the stuff then less lanyards less weight and no chance of dropping
@@klikitzsmith8416 - If you are going up on a tall tower over 500 feet, the last thing you need is to be going down the tower to get a replacement tool or part for the one you dropped. A lanyard seems like a good idea at first, but you have to understand a few things. If you are working on a bolt, the bolt will need a wrench to hold it and another to turn the nut. Those are typically the same size, so that is two wrenches. You carry a spare, so that makes three wrenches. Next, it is very common for the hardware to be in very awkward places. For example, one hand reaching around a tower leg to get a wrench on a nut between the tower leg and the wave guide while the other is reaching around the opposite side to get the other wrench into the same place to hold the bolt. You may also be reaching over or under mounts or other equipment to get it in there. Now imagine that in addition to having to cope with that issue, you also have to deal with the 4' to 5' of lanyard you need to get the wrench from your wait pouch to your hand and still have enough slack to work. That's not even considering that when you aren't using the tool, the lanyard needs to be kept someplace. Before long, you have 10 to 20 lanyards clogging up your tool pouches making it difficult to find something in your pouches. Sure, it's smart to have a lanyard on a cordless drill or some other expensive piece of equipment, but doing it on every tool is impossible.
If you're connected to a horizontal rung and a weld fails, you are dead. If you are hooked to a vertical rung and a weld fails, you still have all the horizontal rungs below to stop your fall.
The horizontal rungs are likely to fail in a fall event do to the ideal leverage advantage of the force applied between two points of a straight line, basically making a horizontal ladder rung a good example of a worst case anchor in basic climbing 101, a 6 foot fall can generate tons of force, which is magnified and multiplied by a factor as the rung bends and that multiplied force is transferred to the welds
Why didn't they replaced that section? Why couldn't they braze the holes? Their repair was shotty at most. Did they use a degreaser like Denatured alcohol prior to applying the sealant? I would have used self fusing military f4 tape for the wrap. Its a big operation for such a crappy fix. Also, they should shut down all transmissions during maintenance.
Funny how I was laughing at this guy when I first watched this show few years back. Fast forward to present day I’m working as a tower climber karma hit me hard. Shit is hard but it pays off really good.
...I have a good friend who builds cell towers...travels all over the country...loves it and makes good money...he is single due in part to his profession...as for me I'm perfectly happy with both feet planted firmly on terra-firma 😎
Look up these men's salaries, I was shocked!!!! Most earn less than 60,000 a year and the top 10% earn around 70 to 80,000 a year!!!!!! That's not good money I thought they made a couple hundred thousand a year, man I was way off.
50+ years ago, in college, we used to have a "challenge" of going out of town and climbing the microwave towers. At night. In a windstorm. We knew nothing of the hazards. We never made it very high. It was far better to take a few dimes to the laundromat and ride the dryers.
Great video. Both educational and fun. Big respect to all the men who do the hard and risky works for us to enjoy the conveniences of the modern world. I would like to try this job someday. On the other hand : " With so much new technology, thousands and thousands of telecommunications towers are going up every year " This and all the cables at oceans floors is all you need to prove to anyone that satellites did not, do not and will never exist. Biggest hoax in the world along with airplanes fuel.
When you first start, sure. After you've been doing it for awhile, you get used to it. However, you can eat quite a bit more than normal and not get fat when you climb towers for a living.
@@Baigle1 you cant technically film. As the owner of the tower and the companies who rent the tower for signaling, own the right and all pictures and film associated with it.
We use to paint high voltage steel towers, while hot ( energized ) and microwave towers, international orange/white. We never used safety belts, no harness, no safety lines. Of course I'm talking about 40 years ago. The utilities wouldn't let us have ropes on the towers even if we wanted to due to fear of them getting tangled in a high voltage line. I'm talking about 100,000 volts to 300,000 volts. I'm not sure how there painted nowadays, with stricter safety laws.
What I'm wondering, after your exposure to the electro magnetic field's, ( EMF ), Have you ever had any health issues related to your exposure, or from exposure to RF ? Sounds insane that no precautions were given ! Highly dangerous ! Besides the obvious ! 🇺🇲☠️🇺🇲
@@sleeve8651 No issues as far as I'm aware of. Safety wise, actually, back then, of course I was much younger, height never bothered me, and we were constantly moving around, it would have been a lot of trouble staying hooked off to a safety lanyard. Plus, getting paint all over the ropes. Of course, I guess nowadays that's something they have to deal with, and they may feel safer hooked off. I never seen anyone fall, but a very good friend got into a high voltage line after I transferred my book closer to home. He was working the winter for a different company that had a reputation of pushing clearance in substations. I worked one winter with them in Houston, Tx. and, we had to cut out brush handles off, that's how close the clearance was, just a few inches. Unfortunately, my friend got into a high voltage line, around 100K,. Surprisingly, it didn't kill him, but disfigured him badly, and he was never able to work again. The damn insurance company fought him for a couple years before reaching a settlement.
That was my thought as well. That's a crappy fix. From what I saw they didn't even use a degreaser like denatured or isopropyl alcohol prior to applying sealant. I would have used Military F4 tape to wrap it. Also, they should shut down all transmissions from the tower during maintenance.
@@carlanw No, it's a coaxial line. There's an inner and outer conductor, which are just copper pipes. A small one inside a bigger one.The outer conductor bolts together with a flange and there's an O-ring between the flanges. The inner conductor is put together with a silver plated "pin" called a bullet. The bullet inserts into the inside of the center conductor a few inches.Which would make changing the whole thing a real pain. You would have to spread the lines 3-4 inches to replace the whole section. Not easy. There are Teflon spacers inside that would melt and catch fire if heated from brazing. If you get a fire inside there, you have to replace all the line above and below it for quite a ways. The carbon in the soot acts as a conductor and will short out the center conductor to the outer conductor. Even the oil from your skin can cause problems at the power they run through this stuff. Which is why you have to wipe down all the stuff you touch with denatured alcohol before assembling it. The people who think this is a "bodgy" repair don't know what they're talking about. Just another internet "expert".
One guy I knew fell from like 6 meters, seems like not much of a problem although it could be fatal. It was in his case - he hit a curb with his temple right below the helmet. He died on the spot.
The first concrete job I was ever a foreman of. Hard to believe that was 30 years ago, I think they bought that used and re-erected it there. Formed and poured a lot of concrete there, hope you didn't look to closely to the generator fuel tank containment tank by the broadcasting house.😢
I have great respect for the guys who do this job! Because F that!!!! No amount of money would have me climbing something like that..... whats the opposite of a bucket list?
Never climbed higher than a weeny 200' tho I have been on the antenna decks of tall buildings way above that. Height never bothered me as long as I didn't look out toward the horizon or especially up! Would love to do it now, but my body says nope!
That repair was piss poor. At least have a plan B,C and D if your going up for a I like to call it “ bodge job”, wouldn’t last long enough for the time and money spent doing the job.
Who else just about sh!t a brick at 6:35, "lean out and let's take a look at where we've gone... go ahead, take a look down and see where we came from..."
I had enough fun working on 300 foot towers. When it is cold on the ground it is really cold at 200 - 300 feet, much more wind makes it much colder. When cold the body just doesn't work as good. It you don't do it all the time it is bad.
It seems like u could use ropes to come down I do tree work do im used to climbing I no towers are a different game but a 200ft rope using a srt system would get u down in a hurry even drt il take 100 ft in 10 seconds an no hand fatigue over climbing down like a Ladder. Is there a reason not to use rope??
At 4:05 John Graham gives us a chemistry lesson. But i am a little confused. If nitrogen is inert where does nitrous oxide or nitric acid come from? Now I understand that nitrogen is not very reactive but it sure as hell isn't inert. But what is amazing is that in the scores of comments not one person caught it.
@@Mikael5732 Yep, same here but it is pretty scary because I realize that they can move faster than I can and could literally kill me before I could get to the bottom. Not a cool situation. (And I'm not allergic to them)
@@carlanw Yeah, it was some time ago and my climbing partner told me, there are some wasps up there, see the dark cloud? I thought, now what? He said calmly, ".. just climb right through them, they won't bother you". They didnt, although I was thinking about them very intently as I passed them. There wasn't even a nest! They were just swarming an area. When I finished my work couple hours later and came down, they were gone. I was glad. lol
@@Mikael5732 Yeah, that's different. In my case they had built nests were on the lookout for Intruders. It was only at 50' but that's still a ways to go in a hurry.
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view!" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the momentt?
