This might not be in exactly the right category, but I literally cannot stand to watch this video. I have never seen anything quite like this. I assume he is trying to connect a plumb bob at the top. This is an excellent reason that a high-end total station is useful.
Probably servicing the light at the top.
I've parachuted from perfectly good airplanes above that altitude without a second thought but just watching those guys free climbing that high makes me break out in a cold sweat. At least you'd have a few seconds to say a quick prayer before impact.
I climbed a 1900' TV tower at night. Carrying a 60lb pack. My boss carried a 100LB pack. It was really fun. I waited at the platform at 1900, while he climbed the stick, another 60' up and covered with spikes, and wires. The light on top of the stick was out. We wound up splicing the wire before it went up the inside of the stick, with a J box. Epoxied to the metal frame. If I could do that for a living, without all the travel from state to state, I would do it. Fun as far as I am concerned.
Being high up, late at night, and enjoying the fresh air was fun. Stark raving beautiful. Above the clouds, and buzzards.
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One of my first clients did this for a living. I recall him saying the difficulty was the wind, which would sometimes blow his toolbag straight out horizontally on its tether, even though it was basically calm at the ground as he started the ascent.
He was building a big house.
great video!
My stomach was in a knot the whole time while watching. That's a line of work for which I'm definitely not suited.
Last year I was retained to orient a radio antenna atop a 200' tower. I was set up on the ground about 250' from the tower, and watched the steeplejacks free-climb it to install the antenna and hold the prism in order to determine orientation. It was an unnerving experience, and I was glad when they were done.
My uncle was the GM of a tv station in Minn. that had a tall tower which had a failure and came crashing down.
I had a friend that climbed a ham radio tower at night on a lark. he got about a 1/3 of the way up ( perhaps 30' or so) and somehow received a shock from the electrical source to the light. I was not with him, but he told me later that the next thing he knew was lying at the bottom of the tower, with his wind knocked out and bruised but able to walk away.
O hush Gordon. In the first case, they did not suffer... in the second, they should have had a harness, and been tied off.
OK, race ya to the top!
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I just about puked watching this.
I got a little nauseous watching it.
Absolutely not the job for me!!