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On September 17 2010 10:38 prochobo wrote:Show nested quote +On September 17 2010 10:17 moopie wrote:On September 17 2010 10:03 prochobo wrote:
My stomach turned just watching this and my palms got sweaty. Scary ass shit. I wonder what the mortality rate is.
I'd have a mother fucking parachute! I would guess that they do have parachutes. At the end, the guy looks down and you can see his climbing partner. He doesn't appear to have on a parachute, but a harness instead.
Correct. The bottom guy is always latched. The top guy is harnessed to his partner. If either falls they're secured. Same applies on the way down. Either way, if one falls it's going to messy though, lol.
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On September 17 2010 09:58 SonuvBob wrote:
I'm gonna wait til there's a few pages of posts, and then I'll edit the OP to be about raising kittens.
Oh the power.
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I do this in mmorpg's and I'm already shitting bricks.
EDIT : Holy crap...still watching...and he's still climbing
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They FREE CLIMB it?
Damn you better get some fuckin hazard pay for that shit.
You'd think that there'd be some kind of safety thing. Maybe a ratchet system that could go all the way up to the top and wouldn't impede you much. I could do that job with like a reasonable safety system, but as is...no way.
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The site that originally created this video has taken it down. It seems to imply the reason is because the guy who filmed it is scared of losing employment because of the dangerous way he climbs.
First off I want to thank everyone for the great response I got on the video “Stairway to Heaven”, it was really much more than I could have hoped for. Now, having said that I am also very sorry that I could not keep the video up for you to share with your friends and family. I truly am sorry, I can see from the comments how popular it was and that’s why I want to explain what happened.
The footage of the climb came from a friend of mine that does this type of work, I have know him for several years and he has helped me many times in the past. Recently he gave me this video he shot on one of his jobs. I showed him the edited video and he approved it and I put it up on TheOnLineEngineer.Org and You Tube over the weekend. On Monday he was getting calls from colleagues telling him that they were concerned about what the video showed. His world is a very small one, and you don’t want to bite the hand that feeds you! Some facility owners are pretty uptight about liability and such and may not hire him if they think he does not take safety seriously.
So he asked me to take it down, and I did. That was Monday morning (Sep 13, 2010). Today (Sep 15) he told me it was up on You Tube, by the time I looked at it it had over 77,000 views. It was on more than a dozen websites. The chance that someone important would see it was increasing rapidly. So the video most of you saw was one that had been ripped off from my website before I took it down. I wrote asking the guy who put it up to take it down but got no response so I contacted You Tube.
Once again I am sorry about pulling the video, I know that every time I looked at it my legs got weak, there’s no way I could do that type of work. AND THATS MY POINT – I need this guy who made the video, we plan to do more of them, but it won’t happen if he can’t get work because he’s been black listed by the industry. He’s also my friend and I don’t want to see him get hurt because of some video I put up on the internet.
We have had two offers to broadcast this video, a request to submit it to a film festival in France, over 118,000 views on You Tube. This was all much more than we had ever planned for or thought would happen.
AS SOON AS WE CAN WE WILL HAVE MORE VIDEOS ABOUT TOWER CLIMBING, in the mean time please be patient.
And once again thank you for all the comments.
Russ
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Can't imagine it being much scarier than a lot of jobs where you have to be really high: roller coaster inspectors, bridge maintenance guys.
I'm sure you get used to it. And then after that the pay's all good :D
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There's probably a fair bit of sway in the tower so it's not the same as being up on something else. The Dubai tower (tallest in the world) has a 4 foot sway at the top for example.
Also a parachute is probably out of the question. You'd just blow back into the tower and carrying extra weight would probably significantly increase your chance of death (how much does a parachute weight).
For OSHA regulations it's probably safer to free climb. I wouldn't be surprised if the threat of lightning storms is the riskiest part of the job (well for anyone qualified to take the job in the first place).
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holy fuck i felt ill watching that
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On September 17 2010 09:59 Motiva wrote:LOL so true... That man has serious balls.
Yea, that's what he was carrying in the red bag behind him. He has to transport his 30 pound balls somehow.
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damn i regret watching this
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On September 17 2010 11:34 eSen1a wrote:
that is the most insane thing i ever saw... they should at least wear a parachute?!
I don't think a parachute would help much because it would get caught on the tower...
Also that video looks really scary XD
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Every time he looks down, I get scared......
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I must be cracked in the head because I want to try that for fun. Must take a lot of strength and endurance to climb almost 2000 feet!
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Well just see it this way, this is no more dangerous than difficult antenna-work on a 10 story building.
Weither you fall down 100 feet or 1500 really doesnt make that much of a difference any more you should have reached terminal velocity in any case.
And even if you fall you still have a minuscule chance to survive after all if you take a position of maximal air friction during your fall and land on something relatively flexible ... like the top of a car for example 
Anyway i think most people who do freeclimbing aren't gonna be scared by this, in both cases you fall (and in all likelyhood die) if you slip the only difference is that in one case you get paid and in the other you dont.
Then again a lot of people say that you have to be kinda crazy to do freeclimbing anyway. 
Definitely was intersting to watch though.
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That is SICK! I can see myself making it up getting back down is a completely different story though.
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On September 17 2010 11:56 EAGER-beaver wrote:
I must be cracked in the head because I want to try that for fun. Must take a lot of strength and endurance to climb almost 2000 feet!
He only climbs 160. The other 1500 is in an elevator.
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that is ridiculous. He doesnt make enough.
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that guy has some serious balls.
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Wow people are saying they wouldn't do this for a million dollars, or even more?! That's a lot of money. I'm pretty sure I would do it...or at least try. I know, I know...I say that now, but I'd definitely give it a shot. I'd probably wimp out and climb down after the first step
It is pretty scary, but I think I would at least try if someone offered me a million to go up and back down...
The thing that would bother me is the wind. It seems like it would be really strong up there, wouldn't it? Crazy :o
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