| Author | Message | ||
     Johnnylunchbox |
This guy has bollocks of adamantium. http://video.yahoo.com/network/101149635?v=8244494 &l=5144241 | ||
| Britchri10 |
Kudos to the climber for that. I hate crossing high bridges on my bike. You would never get me anywhere near that! | ||
| Trevd |
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| Xdigitalx |
WOW... I wonder if the climb down is more difficult. Do they carry mini parachutes? I would. I see a future for climbing robots. | ||
| Boogiman1981 |
WOW | ||
| 86129squids |
Yeesh! I gave up with 5 mins to go- just ate a bowl of cereal... | ||
| Buellerandy |
that would be a fun base jump | ||
| Fordrox |
no way in hell, my legs went weak just watching it. | ||
| Teeps |
Fordrox Posted on Saturday, September 18, 2010 no way in hell, my legs went weak just watching it. +1 I wouldn't climb that thing for a million dollars | ||
| Nevrenuf |
no desire in the world to even think of doing something like that. | ||
| No_rice |
it sure as hell would be fun! | ||
| No_rice |
and +10000000000000000000 on the base jump | ||
| Redefine420 |
I work up high, not nearly that high though. The worst is when you drop a tool. I wonder how much those towers sway. | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
I'd do it for $1M. Once. | ||
| Kyrocket |
I saw that yesterday and wondered how long it would take it to get here.LOL But no way in Hell would I climb that high. I got weak kneed just sitting on the couch watching it. | ||
| Swampy |
Steeple Jacks must have ALOT of time off. I would hate to see what happens when you get all the way up there and then a lightening storm approaches out of the blue | ||
| Swampy |
Did anyone happen to notice the video down a little farther? Indian Acrobats I can hardly wait for H-D(spit) to move there http://video.yahoo.com/network/101149635?v=8244494 &l=5144241 | ||
| Cyclonedon |
Just imagine, your climbing up there and your almost to the top when all of the sudden you have to go to the bathroom.  | ||
| Snowscum |
I dont think this vid was in the USA. OSHA forbids not being clipped in on the way up and down. | ||
| Iamike |
We had three of our tower crew contractors fall off an 1,100' tower a few years ago. I had worked with them a few months before and they rode the rope back up that time and I asked them if it was legal to do that. The next day as we were letting down a dish & mount the rope broke with the equipment falling about 250'. I mentioned to the guy that they rode that rope the day before but he didn't say anything. When I heard about the accident I knew how it happened. That would have been a long time to think about it. | ||
| Whisperstealth |
If I were in physical shape to do it, I'd love it. Base jump, Hell ya. Must exercise... A very good friend of mine did that for years. Has some wonderful pictures. A wrench dropped can absolutly kill someone! Don't wrestle with those guys!, even the little ones are very strong. Legs like iron. | ||
| Danger_dave |
>>Think your job is hard?<< Nah. | ||
| Blk_uly |
My weight would just bend the tower to the ground then the climb would be easier  | ||
| Reepicheep |
I had a friend that used to do that. Haven't talked to him in a while, but boy did he have stories. He used to enjoy peeing off the top of them... | ||
| Court |
I used to climb a lot of towers but nothing that tall. Tallest for me is 475' ....... That thing was absurd, makes my palms sweat. MikeyP had some great pics from working atop the WTC. Heights didn't bother me when I was young ..... More aware of it now. Some here recall when I climbed the smokestack at 2am a couple years ago to take pics of NYC ... Which I posted here Still have pics of when we used to slide out ove the water on the electrical wires over the Mississippi. | ||
| Gearhead |
I'm showing my two electronics classes this video tomorrow. I'll anxious to hear their comments! | ||
| Court |
 Can't see it in the photo but those little smudges in the lower left are tractor tailors with wire reels about 475' below.
Sub-Part V has recently . . . after about 3 years of struggling with it . . been rewritten. The "free climbing" debate continues. But, it wasn't cool then and it, at least to me, is less cool now. Simply very few cases where you can't find, on most the structures I had to climb, a place to tie off. The one I still laugh at was when we used to . . .without so much as a second thought. . . . just unbelt and walk from one pole, the 27' distance on a 345kV structure spacing, across the arm to the other pole. The first time I clipped a static it was on a 345kV near LaCygne, KS. I climbed to the top of the 120/6, did my stuff . . climbed to the bottom . . walked over to the other pole, climbed up and did the other static. One of the old Lineman laughed "you'll never do that again" and he was right. We took the "short cut". I carry harnesses and fall retarders in my trick all the time now . . .although I seldom (mostly due to my wife) actually go up on towers . . . I always keep my climbing boots and harness close. I'm neither as brave, foolish or athletic as I once was. | ||
| Tbolt_pilot |
I watched it all. It made me a little dizzy when he got to the top and was looking down and wobbling around. I wouldn't do it without a safety line, even then I would probably pee my pants a little. I prefer going the other direction. Did some salvage work at a closed zinc mine in NJ as a teenager (before it filled with water). I climbed down the mainshaft ladder 1230' into TOTAL darkness except for the light on my head. That was just to get to where we worked for 14 hours then climbed back out. http://sterlinghillminingmuseum.org/aboutus/histor y.php | ||
| 86129squids |
I'm a bartender. For the busiest restaurant in the city/county, I'd have to really wrap my head around doing that. Don't understand skipping the safety lines. I had a friend teach me to rappel, and I enjoyed it because I knew the preparations and trusted them. I ride my Buell, as much/hard as I can dammit... | ||
| Ridenusa4l |
just watching that made me nauseous CRAZY!!!! Jake |
