I wonder what the wind was that day. It howls 40 mph around here routinely.
Sounds like they ought to spring for an LED so they don’t have to do this for another 10 years.
That video made me get the willies and squeal like a little girl. Pretty cool.
He didn’t have to test every bulb to find the burned out one, did he? You know, like Christmas tree lights in days of yore.
As an (ex) rock climber, I’d like to point out this doesn’t require a daredevil. With careful attention to technique, there’s very little risk. Lots of perceived risk, but that’s another issue entirely.
Makes my knees go gibbety-gibbety-gibbety.
Tower time is triple time.
—spending summers in Deadwood, I have always been tempted to climb one of the many towers on Terry Peak—don’t because it is apparently a federal crime to trespass on one-—
Ain’t no way I would do that. No way.
Mike Rowe changes light bulbs on the Mackinac bridge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmQgQr9t3kQ#t=129
I can remember being hoisted 300+ feet in a crane to inspect a flare tip. My lasting memory was wanting to get back to ground.
I’d have to be stoned cold drunk to do that. Then I would be incapable of doing that. Catch-22.
Being 1500 agl in a plane no big deal. On top of a tower; mortal fear. I don’t get it myself....
I’d like to see him climb the 4,300 foot tower I saw on my first airplane ride (that was in South Dakota as well IIRC). The pilot showed me on the map the 4300’ tower and we were flying at about 4500-4800 feet (looked like we were right next to it).
Back when I was in school, I had a part time job at an Iowa City radio station, mostly to babysit the automated FM station.
I got a $25 bonus for climbing one of the 300 foot towers to change two of the big bulbs.
The top of the tower swayed about a foot back and forth. I was glad to be inside the stair cage with safety hooks...
I’m feeling the force of gravity trying to pull me down and I’m not even 1,500 feet up.
I’m not that fearless.Thats one job I hope pays well because the person who does really earns his pay.
Cell Tower Climber Earnings
The average salary for radio, cellular and tower equipment installers and repairers
was $48,380 a year as of 2013, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The
median salary was $46,260 per year, meaning that half of workers earned more than
this and half earned less. The biggest employer of these workers, wireless
telecommunications carriers, paid $56,060 a year on average. Among the states,
Texas employed the most radio, cellular and tower equipment installers and
repairers. The average wage there was $40,940 a year.
Read more : http://www.ehow.com/info_8644167_average-cell-phone-tower-climber.html
What if this tower were in Poland? [donning flameproof underwear]
But is the light bulb carbon neutral?