Heights

[tmetal]

Anyone else notice that they didn't keep a good eye out for those NOE hoards? Not very good backup to radar down if you ask me.

I think with the proper training I would have a blast doing that. I'm like ghost use to be, if its tall I want to climb it.

*edited for spelling*

[ozrocker]

When I was about 12-13, me and a few crazy friends used to climb the WYRE AM radio transmitter tower in Annapolis, Md. Only reason? To climb to top, unscrew globe, and drop lightbulb some 250 feet I would guess,lol.
No harness, no kind of safety stuff, and most of the times we did it at night.
Other stuff we did at that age. Anyone who's ever been to Annapolis would know the Eastport bridge (draw span) that spans Spa Creek. We used to jump off the top rail of that thing when the bridge was up for boat traffic.
You should have seen the looks on peoples faces as we climbed from under the raised part of the bridge to the road surface,lol. And then to climb the rail, raise hands in air and jump.                        We even had a swing set up under the bridge to do jumps from.
We had no fear, were young and stupid,lol. But we had fun.
Never had much of a fear of heights, but I don't tempt fate anymore either.

                                                                                     <S> Oz

[WMLute]

In my younger years I used to enjoy climbing water towers, radio masts, anyplace that lets me get way up there. Then I turned 50, now a 6' step ladder will make my head spin. I still love the views you get from up high, but I wish more tall towers had good web cams on top! Cause I can't climb em anymore.

When I was a kid I climbed one of these...


Not anywhere near the size of the one in the video but pretty durn high up in its own right.

On ski lifts I was the idiot rocking the seat scaring the guy sitting with me.

We had a hotel that was closed that we used to break into and hang out on its roof.  We would sit on the edge of the roof 10 stories up and drink beer.

NOW I am like you Ghosth.  The older I get, the less I like heights.  Anything over @ 2-3 stories freaks me out.

This video flat freaked me out.  

You could offer me any amount of $ and I would not make that climb.

[gpwurzel]

I'd love to say I could do that, but no frikkin way - just watching the video was enough. Thanks for posting that.

Wurzel

[Lusche]

On ski lifts I was the idiot rocking the seat scaring the guy sitting with me.

I would have been the guy next to you being scared to death 

[mechanic]

age 16 i liked heights too 

[Babalonian]

I want to know how they (or are supposed to) get down.  You can pay me a pretty penny to spend a couple hours on the clock to climb one of those, but da!@ed if I'm taking all those steps and ladders, with tools, all the way back down.  On belae!

[maddafinga]

Yeah the way down would be much worse to me.  Almost gives me the willies just to think about it. 

[USRanger]

Base jumping would be a much faster way.

[RightF00T]

What video are you guys talking about...it's been removed from youtube.

[Dichotomy]

Base jumping would be a much faster way.

my thoughts exactly.. if you're not going to tie off at least have a parachute...

[jay]

to many suspension lines on one of them to have a parachute IMO

[fbWldcat]

Great, the vid was taken down. 

[Dichotomy]

What video are you guys talking about...it's been removed from youtube.

helmet cam of a guy climbing a 1600 + ft guyed tower I think to replace the beacon.  Pretty nerve wracking vid.

[SirFrancis]

Great, the vid was taken down.  

duno if you guys mean this vid "SWTH - Climbing a 1768 ft radio tower! "

removed -> its still up on youtube

I removed the link, after I read this:

[...] 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.[..]

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