EPTScariest Job in the World - Page 5
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lynx.oblige
Sierra Leone2268 Posts
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Carnac
Germany / USA16648 Posts
On September 17 2010 10:54 igotmyown wrote: I just thought of a great freshman initiation. Imagine if the worker's boss told him, that light bulb you installed yesterday was 100 watt, not an energy saving fluorescent. Go back and do it right. I'm pretty sure if he does that for a living he doesn't care whether he has to climb it again :p | ||
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Heosat
Australia481 Posts
On September 17 2010 10:47 Cloud wrote: How do they build those things? Oh whoops repost. Often time it's via helicopter. | ||
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Geniuszerg
Canada454 Posts
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igotmyown
United States4291 Posts
On September 17 2010 10:57 Carnac wrote: I'm pretty sure if he does that for a living he doesn't care whether he has to climb it again :p I doubt there's daily maintenance for those towers. I guess they could work on other towers, but what if it's raining? | ||
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saltywet
Hong Kong1316 Posts
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lvatural
United States347 Posts
Oh yeah. Having to climb that high is pretty scary too. | ||
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Lurker87
United States172 Posts
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nttea
Sweden4353 Posts
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Kyhol
Canada2575 Posts
By the way I posted this yesterday in the youtube thread. | ||
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sAfuRos
United States743 Posts
Oh lol its rusty and snapped! Bye bye life | ||
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Saturnize
United States2473 Posts
It has to be atleast 100k a year. | ||
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Glaven
Canada554 Posts
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Sfydjklm
United States9218 Posts
On September 17 2010 10:36 Relickey wrote: How do you even recruit someone for this job? "Wanted: Someone who will ride an elevator 1600 feet into the air, and then climb a ladder, unassisted, 168 feet to repair carrying a 30 pound bag dangling from you." Seriously, who would sign up for this/train for this? my granddad used to climb old pine trees just to put up bird houses on em. Now given that 200 ft-ish pine trees arent quiet as tall as this tower, its still not something your average guy would do. Some people just have balls, big, big, balls. | ||
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Tazza
Korea (South)1678 Posts
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Triscuit
United States722 Posts
Absolutely horrifying, but I would expect that this guy would be paid among the most of those in that kind of work. People are generally well-compensated for doing the extremely dangerous shit. And I don't really think they have parachutes on. The helper guy had a harness on but I didn't see anything that resembled a parachute. Would I try to do this for a million bucks? Maybe, but I would definitely be taking the slow way of reattaching my safety line every few steps. I'm just not that confident in myself. | ||
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love.less
United Kingdom293 Posts
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Vanity
United States28 Posts
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evanthebouncy!
United States12796 Posts
On September 17 2010 09:55 Spiffeh wrote: That made my hands sweat just by watching it me too | ||
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Saechiis
Netherlands4989 Posts
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