1,700 Foot TV Tower Climb!

[billt]

My hands and feet got sweaty just watching this guy!  Bill T.

[jaybet]

One project I used to inspect I had to ride up the outside of 18 stories on moving scaffold. Didn't mind it at all. This, on the other hand, is nuts.

[billt]

This is footage from the now infamous Senior Road TV Tower collapse near Houston, Texas back in 1982. It killed 7 people when the entire tower collapsed in just 17 seconds. They were lifting the last section into place when it became hung up. They kept trying to lift it, breaking off the welded shackles. It all begins at the 2:43 second mark in the video. On the way down the falling section took out one of the guy wires, causing the entire tower to come down.  Bill T.

[Teresa Heilevang]

That made me sick just watching them... I hate real high heights.. I clutch up so tight inside myself I can't breath and it paralyzes me.. I can't even imagine being up there let alone having my last minutes of life hurling to the ground.. Nightmare........

[billt]

That made me sick just watching them... I hate real high heights.. I clutch up so tight inside myself I can't breath and it paralyzes me.. I can't even imagine being up there let alone having my last minutes of life hurling to the ground.. Nightmare........

I'm the same way. 37,000 feet in a jet doesn't bother me in the least, but 2 stories up on a ladder and I'm scared to death. Most people die in falls less than 6 feet. World champion Formula 1 driver Michael Schumacher's mother died when she fell off a stool changing a light bulb. Her son drove over 200 MPH for over a decade, won 7 World Championships, and never got badly hurt. Falls kill more than any disease.  Bill T.

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[MikeBjerum]

As a part of my former "Life" as an instructor and rescue specialist I dealt with what we called "High Angle Rescue."  One of my favorite moves was to anchor myself high, 300 to 400 feet off the ground, hook into the figure 8 or rescue rack on the back of my harness, and walk face down  on the structure surface until I reached the victim.  I'm scared of heights, but the adrenaline rush of that move or going head first with the rope between my feet took all fear away!

As far as that tower climb ... I'm so fat and out of shape that I can't begin to see the fun ... However, my tummy is churning.

[JC5123]

That made me sick just watching them... I hate real high heights.. I clutch up so tight inside myself I can't breath and it paralyzes me.. I can't even imagine being up there let alone having my last minutes of life hurling to the ground.. Nightmare........

Sign me up!!!! Oh and can I base jump from the top? Hmm, probably get my chute caught in the guy lines huh. In August my friend and I went in to the Wind Rivers in Wyoming to climb the largest continuous rock face in the state. North Face of Mt. Hooker. We spent 3 days climbing and sleeping on the side of that thing. Nothing compares to the experience of sleeping on the side, and waking up 1600 from the ground. And the best part is the bears can't get to ya. 

[fightingquaker13]

. And the best part is the bears can't get to ya. 

They CAN, they've just got more sense than to be up there.
FQ13

[TAB]

The back story on this... a guy posted, his buddys told him it was a bad idea. He took it down, some one else put it back up.  He lost his job for failing to fallow safety guidlines.


Doing stuff like that is the  one thing I miss about being a industrial painter.

[JC5123]

They CAN, they've just got more sense than to be up there.
FQ13

My theory, if they CAN get to me there, they deserve the meal.