I watched a video yesterday of someone climbing down a high rise on a tether to work on an A/C unit. Even seeing all the steps in protection and redundant safety measures. Nope. Not me.
Then there was one long ago I saw of a guy doing maintenance on a radio tower. Climbed up the interior ladder most of the way, then got on the outside to get to the part he was checking. At one point he had to disconnect and reconnect his safety line because of stuff in the way. NOPE.
Not that video, but I remember another one from a little more than a decade ago where the guy was talking the entire time, explaining the process (and joking at one point about how only the new guys constantly used both safety hooks because it doubled or tripled the time of the work). Then you realize that there was another fella climbing with him when they get up on the little platform.
I had to do this once. Once. I don't give a damn that the harness is good and totally will support my weight; I can still dangle around and smack into the damn tower I am tethered to. 😬
Shit's crazy that it can be totally windless at the base, but once you're up halfway or so, it gets real windy. The only fun thing about the job that day was the tower we were installing equipment to was part of an old radio station, and inside the radio station building had all this super old ass radio equipment and we were fucking around with it pretending to be on the air.
32 Comments
kieron115@startrek.website · 45 pts · 71d
That's one hell of a spot to put the shitter.
Sxan@piefed.zip · 42 pts · 71d
Noice.
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works · 27 pts · 71d
Could not handle tower climbing. My hands are getting sweaty just looking at this picture.
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 22 pts · 71d
I watched a video yesterday of someone climbing down a high rise on a tether to work on an A/C unit. Even seeing all the steps in protection and redundant safety measures. Nope. Not me.
Then there was one long ago I saw of a guy doing maintenance on a radio tower. Climbed up the interior ladder most of the way, then got on the outside to get to the part he was checking. At one point he had to disconnect and reconnect his safety line because of stuff in the way. NOPE.
zout@fedia.io · 20 pts · 71d
This is why you need to wear two lines.
hateisreality@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 71d
Two lines ain't saving you
Individual_Orchid@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 71d
Parachute might from that height..
I've always said I'm not afraid of heights, but a climb like that might challenge my stance on that I think.
Edit: spelling
FundMECFS@quokk.au · 2 pts · 71d
Urgh the pinned comment on that video. “Feminist : We don’t need Men”
So annoying that cool videos like this are ruined by the rampant sexism on youtube.
eleijeep@piefed.social · 9 pts · 71d
Watch this video of Britain's most famous steeplejack, Fred Dibnah, erecting a scaffold on a 200ft chimney without any kind of safety line, in 1982:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3ma9iYx4rg
Jerb322@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 71d
And they tell me I'm nuts.
hateisreality@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 71d
That was a TV tower on the Midwest plains and truly horrifying... The bit about the weather..
I believe This is the video you saw.
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 4 pts · 71d
Maybe. Thank you. Nightmares now unlocked again.
hateisreality@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 71d
They're our nightmares now
NannerBanner@literature.cafe · 2 pts · 71d
Not that video, but I remember another one from a little more than a decade ago where the guy was talking the entire time, explaining the process (and joking at one point about how only the new guys constantly used both safety hooks because it doubled or tripled the time of the work). Then you realize that there was another fella climbing with him when they get up on the little platform.
PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space · 1 pts · 71d
I thought this would be about the 2022 movie "Fall." Quite haunting, that one...
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 71d
Didn't even realize mine were too until you said something.
chargen@lemmy.ca · 19 pts · 71d
All of a sudden there is a strong need to pee
DaddleDew@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 71d
That's not a problem for you.
For those on the ground however....
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 17 pts · 71d
I had to do this once. Once. I don't give a damn that the harness is good and totally will support my weight; I can still dangle around and smack into the damn tower I am tethered to. 😬
Shit's crazy that it can be totally windless at the base, but once you're up halfway or so, it gets real windy. The only fun thing about the job that day was the tower we were installing equipment to was part of an old radio station, and inside the radio station building had all this super old ass radio equipment and we were fucking around with it pretending to be on the air.
Anchorxiety@reddthat.com · 10 pts · 71d
Pigeon mode. Time to shit on someone you don't like
Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 71d
Gosh, I'll bet the breeze up there after climbing feels heavenly. Utter bliss
Krusty@quokk.au · 2 pts · 71d
I love the breeze on muh balls after climbing 1000 meters.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 71d
I love heights. I'd be all over this.
IWW4@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 71d
Oh hell no..
NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE
P1k1e@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 71d
You poopin?
Lexam@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 71d
Did you forget your PIM blanket!? I told you we had PIM!
Jerb322@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 71d
I fucking hate PIM!
blarghly@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 71d
Big pigeon energy.
Twinklebreeze@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 71d
As a tree climber this looks nice. I'd love to scale a tower.
gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 71d
That is some clean zip tie work
hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 71d
I love tower climbing. I do it as a hobby, not for work. But I considered a career in climbing when I was younger.
Sxan@piefed.zip · 5 pts · 71d
Can I have your stereo when - I mean, if - anything happens?