For licensing/usage please contact: licensing(at)jukinmediadotcom Making notch cut of the top cap west antenna on the John Hancock building so that mast can be installed to start removal of the top sections.
Nice job gentleman. Not an easy task. The climb alone is very physical. Conditions only merit this feat. They don't call you Local 1 for nothing. Local 55 Ironworker likes your effort! Keep the WORK UNION !
I always loved this building ever since seeing it in Poltergeist III. I had the privilege of visiting this tower back in 1999 with my late father. The unique X-bracing architecture always wowed me and in my opinion is the most impressive looking tower in the world. It's not gaudy, it's not gauche, it's just a sophisticated and understated monolith. I'd love to visit it again sometime. I also love Chicago!
We only had 1 iron worker on this whole job and they took the credit. It was us local 134 guys that are here every day servicing these towers and antennas.
It's so "Chicago" to have a cigarette hanging out of his mouth! Love it! I love my city... here's to the men and women, long gone, who built it (often without safety gear)... and here's to the men and women of today who maintain it... you rock!
I worked up there too, though not nearly as high up as they were at all, and I'd argue that you can the sirens even better up there than on the ground. There's nothing to block the sound around you up there. The planes and helicopters are way louder than the sirens up there too than down on the ground (for obviously different reasons). The worst part of all about being up there is smelling what they're cooking up down in the Signature Room! It'll make your mouth water ALL DAY LONG!
I give it an 8.8 on the "Vertigo Scale", which tops out at a 10. I use these videos to test my inner ear, as well as for what I call a "Beer Multiplier", meaning if I drink 3 beers while watching this I get the same effect as 5 beers without the video.
Used to work at WTP and 900 N Michigan as an engineer. Would have to do dumb ahit on the roof every so often. Surreal seeing them from an even higher vantage point. Being on the roof of 900 was so cool looking out towards the west, because you could see city grid, via strretlights, as the building began to taper down.
Broadcast tower riggers are a very different breed. I've been on the roof of the Hancock ... and a couple of flights up the inside of one of those masts ... but no way would I want to climb up the way these guys do it.
@@rpg1876 Yeah, and most of us normal people are just here sitting at home with our feet on the ground and STILL get woozy watching this. Sure you can tell yourself that with a harness it's not really that dangerous and that the fear is irrational, etc. But chances are your hind brain will never believe it.
What are they trying to figure out? I feel like they should have planned that out before they were 1500ft high on a platform the size of a night stand..
Not gonna lie. I watched 42 seconds of this video and had to shut it off. My butt clenched so hard it's gonna be a week before I can go to the bathroom, and my balls climbed up so deep into me it's gonna be about 5 years before they drop again. Good god. I can't decide if you tower dogs are crazy or brave. Then again, to put it into perspective, there's really no difference in the lethality of a fall from 525 feet (160m) vs. 1,500 feet. (459m) You'll be going the same 56 m/s (125 MPH - average terminal velocity for an average human) in either case. The only difference is time - falling from that height would take 11 seconds, v.s. just under 6 seconds to fall from 525 ft. Ain't physics fun?
One cannot deny the awe and beauty of this view of Lake Mich and the Downtown Chicago ...however, even watching this video gave me a feeling of..as Mel Brooks says, 'High Anxiety ' and Alfred Hitchcock's 'Vertigo'....😮lol
Awesome Brandon! I used to put lights on Baseball field poles 20 years ago......But don't think I had what it takes to be up there. Keep looking out for little brother...be safe and have fun! Thanks for the video.
I would be so nervous I would poop my shorts and since there not brief types the poop would depart my pant leg and I fear land on some unsuspecting bystander and being that I am constipated could prove to be a fatal experiance.
These guys make tons of money going all over the world whenever needed. One job like this could possibly make 60 thousand dollars, each. This fireman I know told me this.
"Hey boss what's the plan for today"? "Well John we're gonna start to dismantle the west antenna on the Hancock" "Oh good because if you said the Sears tower antenna I'd say no fucking way am I doin that!"
Unbeknownst to anyone, a small spark, the tiny ball of molten slag, lies quietly smoldering under the sling, compromising the strength of the thin line of life itself. To be continued.......! lol (Damn! That scares me, and I'm fearless!)
pretty cool gig. wouldnt mind doing it if the pay is right. "hey bill"? "yeah mack,what is it"?? mack: "big john needs a fresh filler on its west antenna"???? bill: "i`ll get right on it"!!!!!!! 1500ft. NO SWEAT!!!!!
Wild. But I'm interested in your journey up there. Should have filmed that. Once your up there it isn't that extreme knowing your tied off. Is this about 1000/hour
