Transmission tower climb, as high as the Sear's tower

[Ripsnort]

Well, think about it...after 20-30 feet, you are unlikely to survive a fall. So what's another 1600 feet? 

[Dichotomy]

of course falling 30 feet you might have time to think 'oh s----' falling 1600 you'd have time to think life over a bit.  A little over 1 second for 30 ft a skosh short of 10 seconds for 1600 ft I think.  I could be off a bit on that.

[DEECONX]

Yeah I saw that on Yahoo aswell. Freaky as H3LL!

[Killer91]

of course falling 30 feet you might have time to think 'oh s----' falling 1600 you'd have time to think life over a bit.  A little over 1 second for 30 ft a skosh short of 10 seconds for 1600 ft I think.  I could be off a bit on that.

Well If i did the math right it would take about 43.9 seconds to hit the ground.

1600 ft is 0.3030 miles. 145 mph is about terminal velocity for a human. 145 x 0.3030 = 43.939393 because D = RxT so T = D/R 

Some one check my math.

[Dichotomy]

I cheated and used an online calculator..

but my math probably is off

[Flipperk]

Prime example of the danger of internet..

The guy who made the video got negative feedback for releasing the video and pulled it from youtube fearing to be blacklisted on all telecom carriers. Too late, it's all over yahoo and liveleak.

Source?

[curry1]

Something just seems very weird about that like isn't there a better way to do it besides sending some poor smuck up a 1700ft+ tower?

[Flipperk]

Something just seems very weird about that like isn't there a better way to do it besides sending some poor smuck up a 1700ft+ tower?

If you come up with a solution with that, DO NOT TELL ANYONE until you talk with the companies that maintain the towers. Otherwise no.

http://www.azdps.gov/Careers/Job_Descriptions/View/?j=154

This is the pay scale for a COMMUNICATIONS TOWER TECHNICIAN SUPERVISOR. Might give a rough idea of what these guys get paid.




Think about it, fresh air, very decent pay, plenty of excerise, and you also get an office with a view. What more could you ask for??  

[Treize69]

What more could you ask for??  

A rappelling harness and/or a BASE jumping chute.

Maybe a commercial application for those wing suits? Fly far enough out from the tower and then pop the chute.

[Lusche]

Source?

The very website that first posted the video: http://www.theonlineengineer.org/TheOLEBLOG/?p=561

[sluggish]

It seems it would be much safer to lower the fixit guy from a helicopter.  The obvious reason they send the schmuck up the tower is cost.

[JB11]

New a guy in Tulsa that owned his own company installing comm. towers.  He told me they can't even come close to providing insurance because of cost.  But the schmucks make a killing!!

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[jay]

watched the entire video...might actually mind this as long as i knew i could make it make it down again

[Killer91]

Well If i did the math right it would take about 43.9 seconds to hit the ground.

1600 ft is 0.3030 miles. 145 mph is about terminal velocity for a human. 145 x 0.3030 = 43.939393 because D = RxT so T = D/R 

Some one check my math.

well i just realized i totaly screwed up the math. It would closer to about 7.5 seconds of freefall because  T = D/R    I multiplied instead of dividing the first time 

So 145mph/0.3030 miles = 0.00208965517 hours, 0.1253793102 minutes, and 7.522758612 seconds

If i'm still wrong someone please tell me.

[Dichotomy]

My calcs were quick and dirty and I cheated by looking up an online calculator.  To be precise you have to account for acceleration to terminal velocity. 

I'd have to sit down and seriously contemplate this to get it exactly right and there are a lot of unknown variables such as drag, mass, was the fall retarded in any signifcant way, and so on.

But, seeing as how I really only come here to discuss AH, read the jokes, and watch the serious threads with interest I'll settle for 7.5 to 11 seconds from start of action to end of the event.

I'll stick with designing poles instead of climbing towers thankyouverymuch