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

. 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!!

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 al ude 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 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 ! I'll climb that backwards

[man on wire]

I know that thispetho would 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 ing idiot.

[thispego]

American Psycho I LOVE IT

[thispego]

I know that thispetho would 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