incredible BALLS freakin crazy

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/81100181/

I had thought I saw this here in SS but it was from Anandtech. sorry.


This guy is CRAZY.. it's his job.. but shtook free climbing like that...
My hands starting sweating when I watched this.. not just clammy hands but actual sweat coming down..

If you are scared of heights then... maybe don't watch? or if you want to try to overcome your fear.. take a look

Damn't you beat me to posting this.  I start sweating each time I watch this.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txdv_oNq81I

How in the world do they build something so tall and yet so narrow?  I would like to know how that tower is assembled.

ah my brother just showed me that last night. ITS SO NUTS. holy shtook I hope he gets paid well. They should be wearing parachutes

i think my heart rate is actually going up watching that

Yeah there is no way in hell I would ever do that. They have to be making a ton of money doing that.

Originally posted by Boneseh Damn't you beat me to posting this.  I start sweating each time I watch this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txdv_oNq81I

Anyone got an alt link?  You tube link is toast and I'm filtered out of ebaums

I actually used to be a foreman for a company that did tower work on standard cell phone towers throughout the nyc area...the highest tower around here is in alpine, Nj and I've installed steel and antennas at the top at I believe 425 feet. The worst are the monopoles, a straight cylinder up to 300 feet and all you can climb are the little pegs sticking out the side...quite uncomfortable.

I'll say that myself and my men all used a strict 100% tie in protocol, my boss and the "older crews" definitely use free climbing and its crazy to climb with someone who barely ever ties in.

Where this job is fun is rappelling, a lot of times we had to rappell over 150 feet and that's really fun. Also in the city, I've rappelled down the faces of 12 story buildings. It's really funny the reactions you get from people on the sidewalk or in their apartment windows when our feet are dangling outside their 8th story window!

I'm sure that if you search cell tower rappelling you'll see some crazy stuff...

I watched it again and my palms were still sweating

I hope those people get paid a lot but of course they probably don't...

WHAT!!! that is crazy i was sweating just watching that.

Oh and i started at $12 an hour and when I was done I was 23 years old making more money than both my parents...its a lucrative field to say the least.

What he did was illegal, and from what I hear, he's losing his job because of it.

In the US and Canada, climbers must maintain 2 points of secure connection to the object they are climbing, regardless of how "hard" it is to get up.

Originally posted by ShredbettyZoe ah my brother just showed me that last night. ITS SO NUTS. holy shtook I hope he gets paid well. They should be wearing parachutes

Originally posted by BVoZ ^^^ how much do you make now?

well I quit last year to go back to college..so not much as I am working part time to afford time for my pre-med degree..if you must know I made about 62,000 a year after becoming foreman and I was 23..pretty good for my socioeconomic class and the rates around where I live.
In four years though, I'll be making double that and work half as much as an optometrist.

Here's me on top of my first tower...you need to look closely to see me up there...



and this is the tallest one I've been on...


That picture was from the top of this:

how tall was that?!

omg idiots!

rappelling is a totally different sensation...hanging on the rope is really fun though



That day I hung all of those new pipes up the wall.

that is insane.

Yeah, tower climbers have a mind of their own. I don't think I'd have problems climbing up, but coming down? THAT would be hard for me. 

Originally posted by Vengleelim Wow, that's pretty intense. I get nervous from large ski lifts, I don't know how anyone can do this.

lol me too, I'm always wondering why they have to take us over some gorge and sit back on the lift to make sure I don't fall off.

Cool picks Alex, how windy is it up there?

I cant even name a price you'd have to pay me to climb that thing.  Absolutely insane. When he was at the top, my stomach felt like I was on a roller coaster.

Originally posted by VTBear if they are there all day.. how do they pee???

more importantly how to they take a dump...

thats sick... you dont get nassish? like when your a bout to throw up???