sons this is crazy! workers free climb 1786ft transmission tower!

[BRHornet45]

wtf!

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[METALMiKE]

thats fucking nuts

[BRHornet45]

sons I'm sure after you have done this a few times there is nothing to it. that dude was probably stopping to rest so he could update his status on facebook, check his email, etc.

[METALMiKE]

and scratch his leg lol

[Frenzy]

I wonder how he feels when a wind gust comes by. Or when he forgets a tool.

[Venti Quattro]

I wonder how he feels when a wind gust comes by. Or when he forgets a tool.

or when he slips

[Dex]

Fuck that. You couldn't pay me enough money in the world to free-climb that goddamn tower.

[Venti Quattro]

Fuck that. You couldn't pay me enough money in the world to free-climb that goddamn tower.

I wouldn't do it even if I was held at gunpoint. Just fucking blow my head.

[BlackSwordsMan]

this guy is risking his life so some kid can masturbate to hentai videos
amazing

[Wild Cobra]

-delete-

[Wild Cobra]

Found the negative...

Scanning negative #0095...

Damn...

I forgot how long this scanning can take. Been a while since I used it. This 35mm film strip has 5 frames on it and say it will take 9 minutes. This old Epson Stylus CX7800 scanner does a true 2400 dpi and will scan a pseudo 9600 dpi. I would like a faster scanner, but I haven't seen one that will do 35mm film for some years now. I do all my negative scans in 2400 dpi and save in BMP. each frame becomes a BMP around 20 megabytes and about 3311 x 2095 pixels.

10+ minutes later...

Here is one of the towers I used to maintain. At least I never had to climb this one.

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x262/Wild_Cobra/Misc/negative0095018.jpg

[Chomag]

Good God, one false move and or muscle spasm and it's all over.

[Wild Cobra]

In the past, on my way to work on a fine fall morning:

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x262/Wild_Cobra/Misc/0002-004-20pct.jpg

[METALMiKE]

the guy should at least take a parachute...

[baseline bum]

the guy should at least take a parachute...

I'd do it if I could bring a chute. No way I'd want to downclimb 1700 feet on those little rungs.

[Wild Cobra]

I'd do it if I could bring a chute. No way I'd want to downclimb 1700 feet on those little rungs.
It wasn't that tall of a climb. He took an elevator the first 1600 ft.

[gospursgojas]

Im freaking out just watching this

[The Reckoning]

this reminds me of goldeneye

[BRHornet45]

It wasn't that tall of a climb. He took an elevator the first 1600 ft.

son regardless they still had to climb at least 100ft AT 1700ft in the air ... wide open with no protection at all.

[CubanSucks]

I've climbed higher :wakeup

[CubanSucks]

tallest man made structure in the world

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Burj_Dubai_001.jpg

http://www.mynews.in/News/dailyimage/news/architecture-003-burj-khalifa.jpg

damn Indians




second tallest man made structure, some tv mast in North Dakota

http://desinotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/kvly-tv-mast-nort-dakota.jpg

http://geekofthenorth.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/400px-kvly-tv_mast_tower_wide.jpg

[balli]

Not to be a one upper, that's scary as hell and I would never do it, but it's nothing compared to the shit you see in free climbs. That tower may be insanely high up off the ground, but damn, look at this dude without shoes on:

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[BRHornet45]

Not to be a one upper, that's scary as hell and I would never do it, but it's nothing compared to the shit you see in free climbs. That tower may be insanely high up off the ground, but damn, look at this dude without shoes on:

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son cool video, but I had to watch it on mute thanks to some white boy ruining the video with that crap music.

[Fpoonsie]

Im freaking out just watching this

:lol

Yeah, that's exactly what I was gonna say. I couldn't actually finish it.

[xellos88330]

Im freaking out just watching this

I am right there with you.

[thispego]

I don't get it? So y'all think climbing a ladder is hard?

[phyzik]

I don't get it? So y'all think climbing a ladder is hard?

In this case, at that height?

Yes.

Dont act like a hardass that you are not... You would be shitting bricks just like the rest of us.... And I have jumped out of a plane before for no apparent reason except for the thrill....

Thats fucking crazy if they dont have chutes.

[MaNuMaNiAc]

Holy crap, every time the dude looked down and then back up I almost expected he'd fall :lol

I know I couldn't do it

[Vertigo]

Im freaking out just watching this

+1 Damn.

[DarkReign]

Fuck.

That.

[thispego]

In this case, at that height?

Yes.

Dont act like a hardass that you are not... You would be shitting bricks just like the rest of us.... And I have jumped out of a plane before for no apparent reason except for the thrill....

Thats fucking crazy if they dont have chutes.

:lol but humans have opposable thumbs with which they are able to hold on to rungs of a ladder. and they work no matter how high up you are. Did y'all know that?

[Dex]

:lol but humans have opposable thumbs with which they are able to hold on to rungs of a ladder. and they work no matter how high up you are. Did y'all know that?

No shit, Sherlock. People also make mistakes, slip, or fall off ladders all the time. The difference being, they usually don't do it from a quarter of a mile in the sky with no life line. The physics of climbing might be the same, but several other things come into play at that height like fatigue, asphyxiation, anxiety, and vertigo. Not to mention trying to make that climb with a bag dangling from you, holding the weight of two bowling balls? I climb the ladder every year to put lights on the house, and sure doesn't seem like the same thing to me.

Most well-oriented humans can balance and walk on the width of a curb without difficulty. Take that curb off the street, and put it 500 ft in the air with no guard rails, and I bet you'd find that feat a little bit more mind boggling.

[thispego]

for the 80 g's a year he probably makes that's the easiest ladder climb in the history of man. Sorry, but I just don't think climbing a ladder, no matter how high up, is scary. at all.

[Dex]

for the 80 g's a year he probably makes that's the easiest ladder climb in the history of man. Sorry, but I just don't think climbing a ladder, no matter how high up, is scary. at all.

Fair enough. Forgive me if I have somewhat of a 'need to see it to believe it' attitude :lol but some people are admittedly just wired that way. Obviously this guy must be in order to go out and do this for a living, no safety lines or anything. Other people wouldn't make it halfway up the ladder without becoming paralyzed or passing out due to fear, and I can't be sure I wouldn't be one of them.

I'll climb a ladder all day long, but you won't catch me going anywhere near one like that.

Especially the "ladder" that is just the little rungs jutting out of the side of the pole?

Yeah, fuck that.

[CosmicCowboy]

As scary as climbing it is, imagine being the guys that built it.

[Cry Havoc]

for the 80 g's a year he probably makes that's the easiest ladder climb in the history of man. Sorry, but I just don't think climbing a ladder, no matter how high up, is scary. at all.

Have you considered the atmospheric conditions at 1700 feet in the air, not to mention the fact that you're on a pole with no protection, at times working in the proximity of storms?

[Soul_Patch]

for the 80 g's a year he probably makes that's the easiest ladder climb in the history of man. Sorry, but I just don't think climbing a ladder, no matter how high up, is scary. at all.

Is your complete douchebagyness just a shtick for this website, or are you really that much of a douchebag?

http://images.wikia.com/southpark/images/e/ed/Image_23.jpg

[thispego]

:cry waaaa I want everyone to agree that climbing a 1800 ft ladder is scary! :cry


:lmao

[Venti Quattro]

:lol but humans have opposable thumbs with which they are able to hold on to rungs of a ladder. and they work no matter how high up you are. Did y'all know that?

Go on, climb it with only with your opposable thumbs. Let's see if you're as cocky in the forum as in real life.

[leemajors]

I think in 08 they had the highest job mortality rate.

[thispego]

Go on, climb it with only with your opposable thumbs. Let's see if you're as cocky in the forum as in real life.

LOL set it up bitch! I'll climb that shit backwards :rollin

[Soul_Patch]

Learn to not be a mouth breather first, then worry about climbing things.

[DarkReign]

Yeah fucking right, pego

Youd shit yourself, wanna be hard-ass. First gust of wind, youd be screaming like a bitch.

Just like the rest of us.

[BRHornet45]

:cry waaaa I want everyone to agree that climbing a 1800 ft ladder is scary! :cry


:lmao

Ah sons I knew it was only a matter of time before one of the tough guys who (online) are not afraid of doing anything and try to belittle those who are. Son I bet you also train in mixed martial arts don't you? (but only since the UFC became popular of course).. Wow son that is awesome. I bet you can really kick some ass. Son I bet you also probably own a truck and you have a really macho sticker on the back that reads something like "Size MATTERS!" Next to all of your "Tapout" stickers of course. Son I bet you're also one of those drivers who even whenever someone ahead of you is already driving 10mph over the speed limit you still make sure to ride up on their bumper in your big ole truck to show how badass you are.

Son I just read you like an open book. Let me ask you this though... does doing things like that and making idiot comments make you feel better about yourself? Or perhaps bigger downstairs? Son there is no need for all of the nonsense. God bless

[JoeChalupa]

Thispego is the man!!! :lol

[CosmicCowboy]

Back before satellite TV houses out in the country would put antennas up on really tall triangular shaped towers made out of cheap ass thin wall electrical conduit...I hired some guys to put up a 200' tower one time and those boys were stone cold crazy. They came out with a trailer load of 10' sections and a long coil of rope. Set the first one in a little concrete and then went to work...climb the first section, pull the next section up with the rope, hang on with their legs and balance the section up over their heads and wiggle it down on the section they were hanging on...then climb to the top of that one and repeat the process...By the time they got half way up the tower was probably swaying 10' back and forth...and probably more than 15' by the time they topped out at 200'...I wanted to puke just watching him...

[Chomag]

Yeah fucking right, pego

Youd shit yourself, wanna be hard-ass. First gust of wind, youd be screaming like a bitch.

Just like the rest of us.

It's just so easy for people to be this (a internet hard ass) like Pego on the internets.

[Phenomanul]

They couldn't pay me enough to make that climb....

[thispego]

:lmao

:fishing caught me a lot of fish today

but I still would not be scared climbing a 1800 foot ladder. At all. my opposable thumbs work at all heights. No scoff on people who would be scared though! :toast

[phyzik]

:lmao

:fishing caught me a lot of fish today

but I still would not be scared climbing a 1800 foot ladder. At all. my opposable thumbs work at all heights. No scoff on people who would be scared though! :toast

Nice backtrack!! :lol

I honesty think you dont realize how high 1800ft is without a constant safetly line....

I've skydived before and can easily scan pictures to prove it.... Skydivers jump at the extreme lowest altitude of 2500ft... and thats with a parachute.... just 2333ft more than the height of this tower... Thats rougly 7.75 football fields in length... That would give you, traveling at terminal velocity, MAYBE 16 seconds difference or so extra of free fall than if you fell off this tower for the average skydiver.

Falling off this tower, WITH a chute, it give you roughly 600 yards... Thats 6 football fields.

Falling from this tower, you would have about 20 seconds before you hit the ground.... Not enough time to deploy a chute safely unless you got luck on your side. You would have to pull the chute almost immediately... Then You would have to clear the tower to get to safely... then hope for a favorable wind... Then you have to worry about terrain.

And this is all if the wind works in your favor and doesnt slam you back into the tower.

[DarkReign]

To be clear, I'd straight soil myself on that climb. No exaggeration, particularly in those transition areas.

Honestly, I would probably freeze after two steps and take the elevator back down. Watching that video made me uneasy, couldnt imagine doing it IRL with wind, texture and weather to contend with.

[DarkReign]

Back before satellite TV houses out in the country would put antennas up on really tall triangular shaped towers made out of cheap ass thin wall electrical conduit...I hired some guys to put up a 200' tower one time and those boys were stone cold crazy. They came out with a trailer load of 10' sections and a long coil of rope. Set the first one in a little concrete and then went to work...climb the first section, pull the next section up with the rope, hang on with their legs and balance the section up over their heads and wiggle it down on the section they were hanging on...then climb to the top of that one and repeat the process...By the time they got half way up the tower was probably swaying 10' back and forth...and probably more than 15' by the time they topped out at 200'...I wanted to puke just watching him...

Fuck. That. Too.

The sway at those heights is what would stop me in my tracks. I hear (because I dont work in a corporate environment) that on the top floors of tall buildings, you can actually feel the building sway in high winds.

Me, no likey.

[Chomag]

I have done a couple of rock climbs in my lifetime and I have to say that just watching this video made me feel uneasy and dizzy. My leg muscles feel 80% more weak just looking at that film. It gave me the feeling like my knees will go out any second especially when he got to the area with just the pegs.

I don't think in that video they said anything about it but I can only imagine of how much that thing sways up that high.

[thispego]

Nice backtrack!! :lol

I honesty think you dont realize how high 1800ft is without a constant safetly line....

I've skydived before and can easily scan pictures to prove it.... Skydivers jump at the extreme lowest altitude of 2500ft... and thats with a parachute.... just 2333ft more than the height of this tower... Thats rougly 7.75 football fields in length... That would give you, traveling at terminal velocity, MAYBE 16 seconds difference or so extra of free fall than if you fell off this tower for the average skydiver.

Falling off this tower, WITH a chute, it give you roughly 600 yards... Thats 6 football fields.

Falling from this tower, you would have about 20 seconds before you hit the ground.... Not enough time to deploy a chute safely unless you got luck on your side. You would have to pull the chute almost immediately... Then You would have to clear the tower to get to safely... then hope for a favorable wind... Then you have to worry about terrain.

And this is all if the wind works in your favor and doesnt slam you back into the tower.

phyzik, brah, we know your brother is queer as folk, but how did I backtrack when I reiterated my original stance on the topic?

I have opposable thumbs and fingers that will only release their grasp if my brain tells them to. There is no way I would fall off or be scared of falling off that 1800 ft ladder.

[Slomo]

LOL set it up bitch! I'll climb that shit backwards :rollin


http://pics.kuvaton.com/kuvei/trolling_is_a_art.jpg

[man on wire]

I know that thispetho would shit his pants before he was half way up.

[The Franchise]

for the 80 g's a year he probably makes that's the easiest ladder climb in the history of man. Sorry, but I just don't think climbing a ladder, no matter how high up, is scary. at all.

If he's doing that for only 80,000 then he's really a fucking idiot.

[thispego]

http://pics.kuvaton.com/kuvei/trolling_is_a_art.jpg

American Psycho :clap I LOVE IT

:lol

[thispego]

I know that thispetho would shit his pants before he was half way up.

If I was given some sort of laxative and there were no restroom stops on the way up