Or, at the very least, “perspective.”
How to climb a tower. A BIG tower.
My hands have that electric slip/fall tingle just watching.
There’s a brief commercial first.
http://www.liveleak.com/e/07b_1284580365
Just seemed like a lot of folks here would have an appreciation of this.
Matthew (OV)
No thanks.
I suffer from vertigo even just watching.
I got dizzy just looking at the video
no thanks, I think I’ll stay on the ground
No Way In Hell you’ll find me up there.
Almost couldn’t stand to watch it, soaked with sweat just from that!
A mile is 5280 feet - that’s like 3/10 of a mile up!!!
Look, a quarter mile, or more, up in an airplane is one thing. A quarter mile up on a stick?
That’s a whole different proposition.
Glad somebody is man enough to do that, I’m certainly not! 
Cool video.
The height doesn’t bother me. The tiny “ladder” at that height… no way.
Ralph
Strangely, I have no problem flying at any altitude, even in a light plane. But standing at great height on something fixed to the ground makes my groin squirm like nothing else. Except maybe Claustrophobia.
I’m glad I’m not the only one feeling that way, then … I’m not typically afraid of heights, but freeclimbing that itty bitty ladder at that height, and hanging on with one hand while you hook your safety line onto a little peg? If it doesn’t fail, just slipping off the end is too big a possibility.
You’d have quite a long time to think about how silly you were between the slip and the stop if the hook slid off the end of the rung!
Matthew (OV)
Even more fun is unhooking from your rope 200ft down then reattching to another line while standing on a 1ft wide ledge in the dark and rain. Down below you is a major Interstate. Your only saftey is a rope. Thats fun 
Shawn said:shawn your just not right. :)
Even more fun is unhooking from your rope 200ft down then reattching to another line while standing on a 1ft wide ledge in the dark and rain. Down below you is a major Interstate. Your only saftey is a rope. Thats fun :)
Look at it this way, maybe the tower dude gets queasy and light headed at the thought of having to be a store clerk dealing with Christmas shoppers.
Well, then again, so do most store clerks, so maybe that wasn’t the best example.
Geoff George said:and I would also think that there is a certain amount of sway on that tower. NO Thanks. I like the ground I walk onShawn said:shawn your just not right. :)
Even more fun is unhooking from your rope 200ft down then reattching to another line while standing on a 1ft wide ledge in the dark and rain. Down below you is a major Interstate. Your only saftey is a rope. Thats fun :)
EEEEEEEEK!!! That brings scary memories for me, I have had to climb alot of ladders and scaffolding in my time, the worst was a scaffold ladder on the facade of a restoration project, the ladder stuck out 90 degrees from the scaffold directly over a busy city street, there was NO platform at the bottom of top of the ladder, you simply had to swing out from the scaffold, cliimb up with nothing but speeding city buses under you, then shimmy back into the scaffold at the top, did I mention the top was about 75’ above the roadway? Going up was a hellova lot easier than coming back down, and the ladder was freshly painted with gloss enamel paint, SLIPPERY gloss enamel paint 
Old time Fire Escape ladders and platforms are also alot of fun to inspect, especially on old ratbag hotels and apartments that are over 10 stories tall.
Shawn said:The thoughts of "Learning the ropes" and rappelling were what got me drawn into the Local Vol. Fire Dept. I was told, "if you join they train you and buy you all of the gear, you just have to show up"...So I did, that led onto a few actual high angle rescues, and lots of fun "training". I eventually went "Professional" in the fire service, but got bored once it became a 'real job'...after 10 years, I was finished. Miss rappelling though, and hope to teach my kids someday!
Even more fun is unhooking from your rope 200ft down then reattching to another line while standing on a 1ft wide ledge in the dark and rain. Down below you is a major Interstate. Your only saftey is a rope. Thats fun :)
cale
OK, Tony I’m with you, I can fly the airplane and that is fine but that tower FORGET IT!! I watched part of the video, but when the climber went over the outer edge of the structure that was it! I don’t get on my roof any more and I generly do not do ladders these days, it is the age thing! Paul
You’d think they would just jump off when done and para-glide back down.
Oooops: forgot–guide wires holding that thing up.
I once climbed the mainmast of USS Vincennes (CG-49) with the Chief Electrician’s Mate to change out a light bulbat the very top of the mast. It seemed like a good idea at the time.
That was high enough, especially as we were at sea, and the mast was moving though its’ arc. Back and forth, back and forth, side to side, side to side.
Yes, I was attached to the mast with climbing gear.
My fellow Chiefs thought I was an idiot for doing that.
The Skipper was furious.
As the younger “dudes” would say … OMG !
As a youngster in the Navy, I too went up the mast of the USS Hornet CVS-12, at sea, carrying a rather large can of oil (2-3 gallons I guess). I was the grunt following another guy that said “Make sure you tuck your butt in here or that rotating radar antenna will knock you off the ladder!”.
Then on the USS Iwo Jima LPH-2, while in dry dock, we got the pleasure of painting the mast, top to bottom.
I won’t (can’t) even get on the roof of my house these days.
Steve, bet it was the best view of that ship you ever had though.
Del I’ve been on the Hornet up at Alameda, they’ve done a great job preserving her, worth a trip if your up that way
I’ve climbed some small towers in my youth (working for a cable TV company and having to adjust antennas, replace aircraft warning lights). Couldn’t do it now-a-days. Like Tony, things start squirming. I can sit in the co-pilots seat of any aircraft at any height with no problem. Get me on a second floor balcony - nope- got to get away from the edge.
Have you seen the new glass walkway out over the Grand Canyon? Who cleans the glass on the bottom of the walkway??..