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Title: Professional Broadcast Tower Climbing Video Stirs Up Controversy
Post by: Shortwave_America on September 28, 2010, 0606 UTC
http://shortwaveamerica.blogspot.com/2010/09/video-of-professional-tower-climbers.html
Title: Re: Professional Broadcast Tower Climbing Video Stirs Up Controversy
Post by: SW-J on September 28, 2010, 1915 UTC
Well, the 'controversy' is from all the arm-chair OSHA-enforcer wannabe's citing government chapter and verse and that have likely _never_ been a foot off the ground and onto a commercial structure ... one commenter on the linked blog put it correctly: "The country is being run by armchair warriors…"  ...

BTW, my hands _and_ feet were sweating during that vid; mildly acrophobic here ...


Title: Re: Professional Broadcast Tower Climbing Video Stirs Up Controversy
Post by: syfr on September 29, 2010, 0018 UTC
Anyone KNOW where this tower is?

Just curious...
Title: Re: Professional Broadcast Tower Climbing Video Stirs Up Controversy
Post by: cmradio on September 29, 2010, 0503 UTC
I thought it was Japanese? ???

Peace!
Title: Re: Professional Broadcast Tower Climbing Video Stirs Up Controversy
Post by: Seamus on September 29, 2010, 1324 UTC
Anyone KNOW where this tower is?

Just curious...

It's quoted in the video as being 1768 feet tall. 
Crossing that with a list of commercial guyed masts, the most likely candidate (off by a couple of feet) looks like it would be American Towers' "Eglin" tower in Eglin, South Carolina - used by WOLO-TV in Columbia.
I made the assumption that it was within the US, due to the video's mention of OSHA regulations, which wouldn't apply elsewhere.  It was a close match in altitude on a couple of lists online, and the scenery looks about right for central South Carolina (not mountainous terrain, etc.).
Title: Re: Professional Broadcast Tower Climbing Video Stirs Up Controversy
Post by: cmradio on September 30, 2010, 0056 UTC
I made the assumption that it was within the US, due to the video's mention of OSHA regulations, which wouldn't apply elsewhere. 

Incorrect ;)

http://www.osha.gov/international/index.html

Peace!
Title: Re: Professional Broadcast Tower Climbing Video Stirs Up Controversy
Post by: SW-J on September 30, 2010, 0152 UTC
I made the assumption that it was within the US, due to the video's mention of OSHA regulations, which wouldn't apply elsewhere. 

Incorrect ;)

http://www.osha.gov/international/index.html

Peace!

The site you might should be citing is:

  http://osha.europa.eu/en/about  (European Agency for Safety and Health at Work - )

How the Agency and its partners operate:

  http://osha.europa.eu/en/about/organisation

European Safety and Health Legislation -

  "Based on Article 153 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union"

  http://osha.europa.eu/en/legislation

Directives:

  http://osha.europa.eu/en/legislation/directives

Title: Re: Professional Broadcast Tower Climbing Video Stirs Up Controversy
Post by: Seamus on September 30, 2010, 0213 UTC
In that case, no idea.
It's some place with a tall tower.
Title: Re: Professional Broadcast Tower Climbing Video Stirs Up Controversy
Post by: syfr on September 30, 2010, 2158 UTC
The people all wadded up about this probably believe that all construction workers wear face shields, knee pads, long gloves, helmets,  and walk around 2 story framing with lanyards, fall arrest gear, protected by the osha approved  catwalk roping that exists on all 4 sides.

In fact, boots, cut offs and a ball cap is the de-facto garb of 99% of construction workers.
Title: Re: Professional Broadcast Tower Climbing Video Stirs Up Controversy
Post by: John Poet on October 03, 2010, 1003 UTC
30 seconds and I'm done watching it...


Brrrrrrrrrrr.



Title: Re: Professional Broadcast Tower Climbing Video Stirs Up Controversy
Post by: cmradio on October 03, 2010, 2246 UTC
30 seconds and I'm done watching it...


Brrrrrrrrrrr.

I actually had to keep ready with a "barf bucket" ... it was turning my stomache so bad! :o

Peace!
Title: Re: Professional Broadcast Tower Climbing Video Stirs Up Controversy
Post by: Shortwave_America on October 05, 2010, 0432 UTC
Sorry about that gentlemen! I posted a warning on the site!
Title: Re: Professional Broadcast Tower Climbing Video Stirs Up Controversy
Post by: John Poet on October 17, 2010, 1934 UTC
which helped fuel my decision to stop at thirty seconds.

Last time I did major antenna work, I freaked out at the top of a twenty foot ladder, had to hold on for dear life collecting myself for a few moments, told my compadre holding the ladder "please don't talk to me right this moment", etc.

I got much better at ladders/heights/roofs for awhile when it was part of one of my jobs, seemed to somewhat master an innate fear of heights-- but apparantly if you stop using it, you lose it.  Now my best antennas are done via slingshot without leaving the ground! (and, I seem to get them quite a bit higher at the same time).

Title: Re: Professional Broadcast Tower Climbing Video Stirs Up Controversy
Post by: outhouse radio on October 17, 2010, 1942 UTC
Personally   I like the view from the top !! ;)  BTDT
COME ON BOYS  ::) !  LETS GO CHANGE SOME LIGHT BULBS !!  ;D

     


i have seen the guys lowered down to the tower from a Helicopter   
almost like the video of the guy working on the power lines !
Title: Re: Professional Broadcast Tower Climbing Video Stirs Up Controversy
Post by: syfr on November 21, 2010, 2002 UTC
My backyard Rohn 25 tower is only 40' tall, and I can climb it now without too much of a death grip, but it's a process of desensitizing. I can lean back into the belt and use both hands now on whatever I'm working on , but that is still a bit puckery .

Ya gotta do what ya gotta do to fix an antenna!  :o

John
Title: Re: Professional Broadcast Tower Climbing Video Stirs Up Controversy
Post by: Pigmeat on November 22, 2010, 1231 UTC
There's a tower outside of Charleston,WV that's 1760 odd feet more or less,but it's on top of a mountain. You can see the thing from 20 miles away. It's just off US Route 60 if you're ever in that neck of the woods and want to take a look at it.

The sucker collapsed in an ice storm a few years back,but it was rebuilt. It was a freakin' miracle it fell towards the SE. Any other direction and it would have tore through houses on the way down.

I knew a union electrician over that way. His company had the service contract for the monster. They hazed apprentices by making them go up and change the light on top of the thing.

I understand it started out as 1/4 wave antenna for a radio station on 580 khz. in the 40's and was added on to by a guy who bought an early Fox TV affiliate in the mid-80's. He had plans to create a super-station for the mid-Ohio Valley but I think his partners bailed on him.