I work for the company that owns the structure in this video! its nice to see someone doing the climbing for craning towers safely, hope to see you somewhere along the season!
RU-vid algo been suggesting alot of weird stuff to me lately. went to Foo Fighters in Wellington NZ early this year. Was amazed at the rigging and often thought "Howd they get that up there?" It literally is dudes on harnesses climbing and hammering it into place. Brilliant!
ayyyy another Foos fan! I saw em at the Harley Davidson music fest in Milwaukee last year and they had actual bikes on platforms on top of the rigging, it was kinda wild to realize rigging can hold the weight of several motorcycles
this makes me miss the days i worked at a theme park and realized i would love to get trained for rigging. life took me a different direction for now, but I’m still super jealous watching you climb and do the satisfying work you do. keep it up!
Started my rigging career in ironwork and started rigging rock shows in 1988. I just retired after 33 yrs., the last 10 in audio as my body was done in from abuse.
Thanks for uploading this dude, new to uprigging and had been thinking about rigging in boston w/ local 11 and wanted to see what it's like, and this is the only gopro vid i've seen of truss climbing, seriously gonna try it now. We need more rigging videos and actual gopro teaching videos.
@@worldwideriggingyeah me personally I'm picturing the blood blister if you pinched your skin in the connection of the tower when the crane drops it in 😭
Honestly this is cool. As a 5.11 aproaching 5.12 climber (On lead), I actually feel like I would enjoyed this and I have considered doing tower climbing for another job.
I believe this is a self climbing tower system. There's a, well I'm blanking on the corre t term, but basically a trolly that's a bit larger than the tower, and has wheels on the inside, in contact with the trolly. Chain is hooked onto a part of the trolly, runs up and over those blocks at the top, back down the other side to the hoist, which is attached to the same trolly as before. As the hoist is run "up" the Chain is retracted, causing the trolly, and everything attached to it, to start climbing up the tower. I've seen some folks pin two of the spigot, then thread the Chain and use it to tilt the tower up. I don't know whether that's a reccomended practice, but I'm sure that probably only works on smaller setups.
More than just the obvious safety measures, please take care to wear SPF clothing and/or sunscreen.... Older you will greatly appreciate it. Physical jobs already put an accelerated toll on the human body, no reason to add another risk to that.
Looks like the algorithm is picking this up which is cool! I don't even know anything about rigging - this probably got suggested to me because i like Twice lol. Really interesting to see the behind the scenes stuff at big concerts like this.
@@worldwiderigging I guess G2 company special design, not buy & sell this truss, only give rental serice. Actually i want search detailed size & capacity, we search new one, now interested LITEC My T Steroid folding, i want to consider all options. You can share any link or file, thank you effort.
One's climbing up and rigging the thing, the other's trusting the crane guy. If I was the crane guy my palms would be sweating as well as the climbers.
Trust your equipment, use it correctly and theoretically you're safer than working 6ft up on a step ladder! But that does also hinge on everyone around you working safely and doing everything right too...
Dude at the beginning saying you have the ability to pull over a crane. What!?? If a 180 pound man is pulling over a crane, there were much bigger issues.
