[QUOTE=creefer;24841126]I swear whoever runs wimp takes videos from here.
This was just posted
[url]http://wimp.com/transmissiontower/[/url]
so was this
[url]http://wimp.com/tiltedroom/[/url]
[url=http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1001411]thread, posted earlier[/url]
and this
[url]http://wimp.com/slowdown/[/url][/QUOTE]
90% of the videos here are from reddit.
Welcome to the internet.
Wonder how the pay is
[QUOTE=Ignhelper;24839095]I felt so relieved when he placed the clip at the top.[/QUOTE]
I was like wtf you doing bitch, don't fumble with it, just clip it on motherfucker!#
[QUOTE=Dylan_94;24842605]Wonder how the pay is[/QUOTE]
Anywhere from 40k to 70k
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a year
[QUOTE=beanhead;24834098]If i had to climb up there just to tweak some thing, i would parachute my way down[/QUOTE]
Modern parachute would be like 30-40 pounds more to carry.
I'm sure you'd love to carry more to the top.
And this is why man created the elevator.
[QUOTE=Jasun;24843136]And this is why man created the elevator.[/QUOTE]
There is an elevator. It took them up until they started climbing. There are reasons why it cannot go higher.
No Thank You.
Jesus fucking christ!
How could OSHA allow that shit?!
I feel sick watching that.. I'd buckle and fall!
It looked pretty cool at the beginning, then I saw he was dragging a 30 pound bag along, then I saw he was climbing on the outside, then I died.
Edwin Armstrong would be proud
Geezus. Fucking. Christ.
I'd get to the top and just wack off. Imagine the thrill of that, you're on top of the world and your climaxing.
In the UK, you always have to be attached to the structure by two lines. In addition they cut off all the cages around the ladders, because if you fell off the ladder down to where you hooked your line last you could break/lose limbs on the cage.
I think the scariest part about that is that, though you can't really see it, you [i]know[/i] that tower is not stationary. It is probably moving around in the breeze. Hell, skyscrapers wobble a bit, something that thin has to. :ohdear:
There should be two guys who climb at once, one of them carries the tools while the other brings the parachutes.
This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by TheOnLineEngineer.org.
God damnit.
I don't think a parachute would work because it could get caught on the tower, plus the wind could blow you right into it. But at the same time people base jump off the sides of cliffs and it's the same risk there, I dunno.
But I would not do this for a million bucks. Main reason being I would not survive.
Wow, I would actually love to do this. Although I would shit my pants multiple times.
i would shit my pants if i was him
The idea of climbing a radio tower like that without using a safety cable most of the time scares the shit out of me.
I think the two men have a line attached between them, if one falls the other braces for the other.
[QUOTE=Ignhelper;24839095]I felt so relieved when he placed the clip at the top.[/QUOTE]
My heart stopped when he was just barley holding onto the pole while he was fidgeting with the clip.
[QUOTE=Youtube.com]This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by TheOnLineEngineer.org.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=TheOnlineEngineer.org]First off I want to thank everyone for the great response I got on the video “Stairway to Heaven”, it was really much more than I could have hoped for. Now, having said that I am also very sorry that I could not keep the video up for you to share with your friends and family. I truly am sorry, I can see from the comments how popular it was and that’s why I want to explain what happened.
The footage of the climb came from a friend of mine that does this type of work, I have know him for several years and he has helped me many times in the past. Recently he gave me this video he shot on one of his jobs. I showed him the edited video and he approved it and I put it up on TheOnLineEngineer.Org and You Tube over the weekend. On Monday he was getting calls from colleagues telling him that they were concerned about what the video showed. His world is a very small one, and you don’t want to bite the hand that feeds you! Some facility owners are pretty uptight about liability and such and may not hire him if they think he does not take safety seriously.
So he asked me to take it down, and I did. That was Monday morning (Sep 13, 2010). Today (Sep 15) he told me it was up on You Tube, by the time I looked at it it had over 77,000 views. It was on more than a dozen websites. The chance that someone important would see it was increasing rapidly. So the video most of you saw was one that had been ripped off from my website before I took it down. I wrote asking the guy who put it up to take it down but got no response so I contacted You Tube.
Once again I am sorry about pulling the video, I know that every time I looked at it my legs got weak, there’s no way I could do that type of work. AND THATS MY POINT – I need this guy who made the video, we plan to do more of them, but it won’t happen if he can’t get work because he’s been black listed by the industry. He’s also my friend and I don’t want to see him get hurt because of some video I put up on the internet.
We have had two offers to broadcast this video, a request to submit it to a film festival in France, over 118,000 views on You Tube. This was all much more than we had ever planned for or thought would happen.
AS SOON AS WE CAN WE WILL HAVE MORE VIDEOS ABOUT TOWER CLIMBING, in the mean time please be patient.
And once again thank you for all the comments.[/QUOTE]
tl;dr He is being blacklisted and can't get a job because of this video.
"Just another 60 feet to the top" Just another 60 feet he says. What the fuck.
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