My job don't seem so bad now

Mott the Hoople said:
No doubt. That guy is either completely insane or has balls made of stainless steel. Either way I aint fucking with him.
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I was in Northern Ireland a while back and I watched some guys greasing the steel guy ropes that hold up the Divis Mountain TV tower overlooking Belfast. The tower is 465 feet high but as it is nearly on top of the mountain the total height above sea level is over 1600 feet. They use a cat's cradle and it makes you sick just watching them do it!!


http://www.thebigtower.com/live/Divis/03P21400802192.htm
 
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I know peole who do tower work, electrical transmission line work, and some other insane things for a dollar.

They are a different bunch, but they don't see the problem with it. I have a friend who works building the transmission towers. That means he does what the video talks about, but then gets to where the top is about waist high on him and guides a helicopter in with the next section of tower. When I ask him about working so high up, his response is "after the first hundred feet or so, you are falling as fast as you are gonna fall, so anything above that is just more scenery".

They just ain't right in the head. lol
 
WinterBorn said:
I know peole who do tower work, electrical transmission line work, and some other insane things for a dollar.

They are a different bunch, but they don't see the problem with it. I have a friend who works building the transmission towers. That means he does what the video talks about, but then gets to where the top is about waist high on him and guides a helicopter in with the next section of tower. When I ask him about working so high up, his response is "after the first hundred feet or so, you are falling as fast as you are gonna fall, so anything above that is just more scenery".

They just ain't right in the head. lol
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I went up in the lift several years ago at Emley Moor, which is near to where I live, that was scary enough for me.

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Yea I've been to the observation deck of the Sear Tower when I was a kid. You get off the elevator and you do the shuffle step for about 30 minutes before you get used to it.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
Yea I've been to the observation deck of the Sear Tower when I was a kid. You get off the elevator and you do the shuffle step for about 30 minutes before you get used to it.
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I would not be on the observation deck a the Sears Tower, so this wouldn't be a problem for me. Fear of heights!
 
The tower work isn't as dangerous as you think. They are required to have fall protection at all times. They will be wearing a full body harness and have a pair of lanyards, so one is always attached.

Of course, if you slip a little you are 1700 feet up in the air with a serious laundry problem.

The electrical transmission line guys are the ones who have the absolute "no fucking way in hell" job as far as I am concerned. Some of those guys work "bare handed" on 500,000 volt live lines. With them its either be on the ball or be a crispy critter.
 
Yurt said:
mott doesn't have a job

anyone who says

my job do not seem so bad now

is unemployed and living off my taxes

:fu:
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I can live off the tax payers dole for the rest of my life and I will have produced more and contributed more to society in the last 10 minutes of my work then any ambulatory lawyer will in their entire blood sucking career. :pke:
 
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WinterBorn said:
The tower work isn't as dangerous as you think. They are required to have fall protection at all times. They will be wearing a full body harness and have a pair of lanyards, so one is always attached.

Of course, if you slip a little you are 1700 feet up in the air with a serious laundry problem.

The electrical transmission line guys are the ones who have the absolute "no fucking way in hell" job as far as I am concerned. Some of those guys work "bare handed" on 500,000 volt live lines. With them its either be on the ball or be a crispy critter.
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You didn't watch the video carefully. They were free climbing a good bit of the way, including when they reached the very top. For some moments at the top they were not attached via lanyard/harness.....the crazy fucks.

I've worked incident response in the past where I've had to suit up in PPE and SCBA and deal with spills of shit like HCl, Propane Leaks, Isocyanates. I was at incident at a tank farm involving a leaking LP Gas tank where we had to suit a guy up and send him in with a brass wrench to shut the valve off before the tank Bleved. That was certainly an asshole puckering experience. But it wasn't shit compared to climbing that tower!
 
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These are the jobs that real men do that keep the world running. Respect them and recognize your own shortcomings, pussies.
 
Damn Yankee said:
These are the jobs that real men do that keep the world running. Respect them and recognize your own shortcomings, pussies.
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I have all the respect in the world for these men. But you wouldn't last 5 mins with that "this is what real men do" nonsense. They would kick you off the crew in a heartbeat.

Talk to a tower climber, transmission lineman, or other such worker and they will tell you that someone trying to prove they are a "real man" is someone who will get themselves or someone else killed.

There is no one more careful than top linemen.
 
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