A tough job

AskWazzup

AskWazzup

Sonny, I Watched the Vault Bein' Built!
This is a job you wouldn't want to go to with a hangover :o

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXuzrIN_x2M[/youtube]
 
Uuuh, I've climbed an old 120m high radio mast once, but you climbed inside this cage all the way up to a small observation deck thingie. I thought that was pretty unnerving but that's nothing compared to that shit.
 
Oh, the vertigo...

Just for the record, I wouldn't go up there without a parachute. :)

Guiltyofbeingtrite said:
now I want to see how the hell they built this thing.
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If there isn't a tall enough crane available (like with a 1768ft tower) you can always use a helicopter

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ5iFQv1KaE[/youtube]

Also metal spikes to be impaled on. Cute...
 
Wow. That is amazing. Fear. I would feel an tremendous amount of fear if I climbed that.

"and this is the tricky part..."?! Hell yeah it is! Really windy, storm coming in and two guys with tool bags standing on a platform too small for one with a giant lantern in the middle.

Gah.

How much do they earn? I am guessing/hoping it's pretty good :shock:
 
My legs would turn to jelly and I'd crap my pants. I'm fine with heights to a certain degree. For example I'm fine with jumping off a 10 metre high cliff into water, but at the top of the Tower of Pisa in Italy I had to crawl from the centre of the glass floor to the safe stone ground at the tower top's edge :x
 
Now imagine standing on that plateau and just being swept of your feet by some sudden change in wind and the only thing saving you is that piece of rope attached to the top of the tower. I suppose you'd be swinging around the tower one round, and then back again with your buddy trying to avoid you and your rope at all cost.
 
Seems like the climber isn't tethered to a secure line all the time, only occasionally. Like he says, "most climb without safety line" or something.

I don't know much about laws governing work place security but that seems a bit lax. Heights is one thing but having uncessary dangers is another. I've worked in high places when I worked at this factory, we always took safety seriously because it made sense to take it seriously. If you die or even get injured because of an accident it's a case of finding out whose fault it was, the employers or yours. If you ignored safely guidelines, it's your fault. If there was inadequate safety guidelines or no safety structures in place, it's the employers fault.

But then again I guess the rules are a bit more lax in the States.

Another high place - video, the top of Burj Dubai.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWVLzVhnYE0[/youtube]
 
part of the problem is that there is no way to secure yourself in lots of these situations.

say you are climbing a tower.

how can you secure yourself to something and still be able to climb where the safety line is not useless?

the securing part must be more than halfway up, and your line must be short enough so that at full extension you are short of the ground. now what about when the line goes taut? after a certain amount of distance, the harness would cause injury/death.

only possibility is a secured ladder and being able to move the safety catch as you go up, but what about when you are unhooked you are insecure.

there are ways you could do it, but it would have to be built into the structure to allow for safety equipment.
 
On the tower I climbed, there was this sliding thing attached to a rail that went all the way to the top connected to my harness. It stopped if you tried to pull it downwards without pressing on a handle or something like that. At any time the maximum distance I could fall was about 2 meters.
 
Yes, but in doing that, it also made your first, third and fourth sentance completely false.

I just gave an example of how it's done, I don't know if it's feasible on that particular construction. That railing didn't take up a lot of space iirc.
 
I guess that particular structure was such that the climbers accepted certain risks. He said something like "most like to free climb" meaning there were some who didn't. Meaning there was a safety method available at least some of the way.

I think I could do that kind of work, at least no nagging boss behind your shoulder. :wink:
 
dead no you didnt.

say the state you live in passes a law that says any building with an antenna that goes X feet high must be painted with a light fluorescing color to be easier to see and not hit with helicopters and low flying airplanes.

so now you are talking about people having to paint these antennas that are like 15-25 ft tall.

how would you secure yourself to a point on a pinnacle?

this is not the only circumstance in which there was no safety equipment installed at construction, and there is no real practical solution :)

not all buildings have that ladder or fastening you can put your safety equipment on.
 
TheWesDude said:
dead no you didnt.
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You said there was no way to secure yourself when climbing a tower because of lines having to be short enough and some other funny things. Then in the same post you said it could be done. Your last sentance contradicts the rest of the post. You did it yourself.

All I did was to give an example of how you can secure yourself while climbing a structure like a radio tower.

TheWesDude said:
say the state you live in passes a law that says any building with an antenna that goes X feet high must be painted with a light fluorescing color to be easier to see and not hit with helicopters and low flying airplanes.
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What does that have to do with securing yourself while climbing a radio tower?

TheWesDude said:
so now you are talking about people having to paint these antennas that are like 15-25 ft tall.
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What does that have to do with securing yourself while climbing a radio tower?

TheWesDude said:
how would you secure yourself to a point on a pinnacle?
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I don't care?
 
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