Could you do this job for living?

[LarryD]

<font color="blue"> It's not the fall that hurts, it's the sudden stop at the bottom that hurts. </font>

Is that the same thing as deceleration sickness? /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

 

[sandman2234]

Not a question in my mind, I could do that job.
Now, when reality sets in, I will admit that no way will I ever do something even remotely close to that!
David from jax

 

[BigDamnFool]

I started my career at Edison doing maintanance on high voltage lines. You get used to the heights pretty quick. But I still got out as quick as possible. Great views of the world from up there though. Both literally and figuratively!!


Tiny

 

[Spiros]

I have done it already. Not the way they do it now, being continuously attached, but the old way. I would free climb with nothing but a lineman's belt.
When you got tired, you belted on and rested. That's where the money was, ten cents per foot for everything over 100 feet and time and a half while on the tower. I built them and serviced antenna and line kits. The tallest one I was ever on was south of Montgomery, AL about 1500 feet.

 

[KiotiKowboy]

I jumped off the Stratosphere in Vegas ... does that count?

Climbed a number of 100' towers for amateur radio. Pucker factor depended on how old and rusty they were

 

[Wagtail]

Yep... but back in my 'youth' in the Navy. I used to climb the masts to fix/maintain the navigational radars on various classes of ships. It's not the climb or the height but the swaying that gets to you.

A linesman belt (like Spiros said), plus a 'safety number' below to watch you was all you needed... OH, and the "RADIATE" keys in your pocket so that no one could turn the radar on (or anything else) whilst you were up there!

MOST important, that last little detail.

 

[Looking4new]

Way back in the last century (late '70's) I worked for a company that removed refinery equipment. My job was to climb up the flame stack 2-250' up, and start unbolting it from the top. Linesman belt on and tied off, then you could work with both hands free. Would I do it now? NO! I am still not afraid of heights, I am afraid of falling. I'm not as young as used to be (68).

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I jumped off the Stratosphere in Vegas ... does that count?

Climbed a number of 100' towers for amateur radio. Pucker factor depended on how old and rusty they were

My wife got me on one of those glass elevators in Vegas, which I instantly regretted. Almost became incontinent...anything higher than my 4X4 truck is too high.

 

[Spiros]

Now that I read my post, the tower was not 1500 feet South of Montgomery, it was 25 miles South and was 1500 feet tall. Ha ha!

 

[Spiros]

Amen on the keys Wagtail!