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Originally posted by dayl1ght yeah dude most workers just climb free

They're harnessed up until a certain point then there's just no room. Unfortunately the part with no room for a harness is the highest part that requires the repairs

Add to that they have to lug a 30 pound pack of tools, shit man.

fuck that was tough to watch...my hands got sweaty lol. but i think it was the camera being kinda floppy and a wide-angel lense on it. i mean, when you're that high up on a tiny little ladder, i'm sure it's menacing....plus the wind added to everything....but i'm curious to what it woud have looked like w/ a regular camera.

also, if it took a crane to put that thing up on the top of the antennea to begin with, you can use a crane to go up there and do maintenance on it. fuck climbinglol

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Originally posted by tubularbills also, if it took a crane to put that thing up on the top of the antennea to begin with, you can use a crane to go up there and do maintenance on it. fuck climbinglol

You realize they build these with helicopters right? There are no 1700+ foot tall cranes.

BASS JUMPING

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Originally posted by Joss Weatherby You realize they build these with helicopters right? There are no 1700+ foot tall cranes.

They don't use helicopters, anyone with more than a few minutes of flight experience will know this is a fundamentally retarded idea on a number of levels.

They do use a crane, it moves up the side of the tower while its being built. Lifts and puts the pre built segments in position, they move the crane up a bit more, more bits, move it up, more bits etc etc until its done.

That video frightened me so much I almost cried and stopped it around 1:50.

How bad would it suck if you were up there and that thing started collapsing?

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Originally posted by Lilith They don't use helicopters, anyone with more than a few minutes of flight experience will know this is a fundamentally retarded idea on a number of levels. They do use a crane, it moves up the side of the tower while its being built. Lifts and puts the pre built segments in position, they move the crane up a bit more, more bits, move it up, more bits etc etc until its done.

I know they can do it that way as well, but I would think a tower like this would not be able to support a lift system like that.

I have seen some towers like this constructed by helicopter though...

ok now that i saw the clip, i want to do this. that shit looks epic, all you have to do is breathe properly and pay attention to your grips.

The part of the clip where the orange tube starts, is tricky. There is no horizontal grips outside of the base where the orange tube starts.

In this case, yes I would love to have a chute, that's make for an epic base jump if you ask me.

I agree the scariest parts are when he has to transition another section and each getting increasingly thinner until he's scaling a bean pole.

They must recruit rock climbers because I can't imagine "normal" people being able to pull this off.

As bad as the climb up, I'd imagine going down must be harder because you have to look down and it be easy to mess up your footing or get tangled with that rope and bag.

The thing that makes my feel uneasy about watching that is when they hook onto those rungs towards the top of the tower that look like big nails that have been hammered in, and then start leaning backwards without holding on. What if the hook slipped outwards and then over the top of the metal? It doesn't appear to be any bigger than an inch or two. Crazy.

HOLY FUCK STOP LOOKING DOWN ASSHOLE!!!

I watched this yesterday and it literally made me uncomfortable to the point that I almost had to turn it off.

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Originally posted by jennypie HOLY FUCK STOP LOOKING DOWN ASSHOLE!!!

I shouted the same thing at the screen. haha

This would make the best climb though! The crux is at the top, and while it is "easy" holds the view would make it well worth the time. I wouldn't want to climb under someone like that guys friend was. A man is likely to piss himself the first time he looks down and while the narrator did briefly mention the importance of getting down before a storm hits, golden showers are unpredictable at best.

I watched it on fullscreen and was like leaning into the screen, and at the last part where he is climbing on top of the antenna I fucking started reaching out into space around me like trying to grab on to something to keep steady...

i hate heights.

i can remember visiting the CN tower, and getting crazy vertigo by stepping onto the see through glass floor and looking down.

i don't know how people do that ride that is on the top.

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Originally posted by IL Duce i hate heights. i can remember visiting the CN tower, and getting crazy vertigo by stepping onto the see through glass floor and looking down. i don't know how people do that ride that is on the top.

i did that ride at the top of the Stratosphere tower in vegas...that was pretty cool; but i was fully strapped in and rode an elevator to the top lol.

i love heights, and the adrenaline rush you get over thrill rides and roller coasters, skyscrapers....but all that shit is strapped in or there are walls around you,etc...

but that radio tower....daaaaaaaang

haha YES! where is that? the CN tower you were talking about?

not my pics, but yes.

that picture in the CN Tower brings back a lot of memories for me

i just realized that the first pic is not the cn tower at all

there were kids crawling all over that floor no problem and i had trouble stepping onto it without my knees buckling and getting dizzy.

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