Radio station tower workers

moxham123 · Post by **moxham123** » Wed Oct 06, 2010 4:03 pm

Radio station tower workers. Not an easy job at all.

http://video.yahoo.com/network/10114963 ... &l=5144241

Bag · Post by **Bag** » Wed Oct 06, 2010 4:31 pm

Screw that! Just watching the video is giving me the "willies."

timemoney0 · Post by **timemoney0** » Wed Oct 06, 2010 9:55 pm

bad place to shit your pants

Jasaoke · Post by **Jasaoke** » Wed Oct 06, 2010 10:26 pm

Well, he's wearing a helmet, so he's fine.

RFBuck · Post by **RFBuck** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 12:27 am

The look up, look down thing had me a little queasy LOL.

I can't even get on a roof without getting shaky. I say base jump from up there to get down.

Thanks for that one, moxham...may put the whole roof thing in perspective now.

RamRod 1 · Post by **RamRod 1** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 2:15 am

Unbelievable!......and the guy is wearing like cowboy boots. I have severe acrophobia. I put up a windmill in the back yard with a 17 foot pole and I freeze at the top.

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lynch1 · Post by **lynch1** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 3:06 pm

NO FRICKIN' WAY..I'm glad someone else does that job. I couldn't do it for any amount of money in the world. I'm with Bag, gave me the willies just watching.

f.sciarrillo · Post by **f.sciarrillo** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 3:23 pm

I'm with you guys. I would never climb that thing. I don't understand why they don't use a helicopter for that ...

moxham123 · Post by **moxham123** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 4:35 pm

Have you ever been in the CN Tower in Toronto and stood on the glass floor looking down or stand outside on the observation deck? That gives you the willies. There is also a revolving restaurant on the observation deck level.

The CN Tower, located in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is a communications and observation tower standing 553.3 metres (1,815 ft) tall. It surpassed the height of the Ostankino Tower becoming the tallest free-standing structure on land in the world for the next 31 years.

On September 12, 2007 the CN Tower was surpassed in height by Burj Khalifa in Dubai. It remains the tallest free-standing structure in the Western Hemisphere.

http://www.cntower.ca/

Post by **Jim Price** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 5:37 pm

I took electronics in vo-tech during my high school years, thinking I might become a radio station chief engineer one day. The prospect of climbing high up on towers (and not passing the FCC 2nd Class license exam in two tries) made me rethink that idea.

In 1987, I did a trip to the Kinzua Bridge near Warren, and took some pictures of a steam train excursion from the Knox, Kane & Kinzua Railroad crossing the bridge, which was once the tallest railroad bridge in the world. Here are some pictures I took that day:

Here is the excursion train crossing the bridge. The train was carrying passengers from the Altoona area, members of the Blair County chapter of the National Railroad Historical Society (NRHS). As I understand it, they were told the train would bring them to the bridge, but they weren't told they would be taken ONTO the bridge...I understand several of these folks nearly soiled themselves when they found themselves out on the middle of this bridge!

After the train crossed the bridge, passengers and visitors were permitted to walk out on the bridge to take photos and look around. I took this picture looking straight down one of the trestles at the trees and forest below. For a while this photo used to give me dizzy feelings just looking at it!

Yours truly standing in front of the steam engine that hauled the train, October 1987 (wearing my old "silver space cadet" WFBG jacket!).

Sadly, the Kinzua Bridge is no longer standing; it was destroyed by a tornado in 2003. The Knox, Kane & Kinzua Railroad closed up shop shortly afterward.

moxham123 · Post by **moxham123** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 5:55 pm

Jim,

Your photos reminded me of the the New River Gorge Bridge near Fayetteville, West Virginia, United States. With a length of 3,030 feet (924 m), it was for many years the longest in the world of that type. It is now the third largest arch bridge in the world (still the largest in the United States). Its arch extends 1,700 feet (518 m). Part of U.S. Route 19, it is crossed by an average of 16,200 motor vehicles per day. One day a year, they have "Bridge Day" with a festival "on the bridge" and people are permitted to base jump off the bridge into the gorge. It is really high up.

RFBuck · Post by **RFBuck** » Thu Oct 07, 2010 10:47 pm

I feel your pain Jim...I did that excursion train twice. What a ride! And I tried walking out on the bridge...got to the edge of the gorge and when the land dropped away, I literally dropped to my knees and crawled all the way back.
Shame such a wonderful landmark had to fall by the wayside due to funding.

f.sciarrillo · Post by **f.sciarrillo** » Fri Oct 08, 2010 12:17 am

Jim, how high is that bridge? It look like a long ways up there.

I would be holding on for dear life if I went across those two ...

Merge · Post by **Merge** » Fri Oct 08, 2010 12:20 am

My brothers live in Beckely, WV, which is on US Route 19. I'm not a fan of heights, and I can feel my hands tightening around the steering wheel when I drive across the New River Gorge Bridge.

f.sciarrillo · Post by **f.sciarrillo** » Fri Oct 08, 2010 12:32 am

Merge wrote:My brothers live in Beckely, WV, which is on US Route 19. I'm not a fan of heights, and I can feel my hands tightening around the steering wheel when I drive across the New River Gorge Bridge.

I think that is they would have it where you can't see down, I would be fine.

RFBuck · Post by **RFBuck** » Fri Oct 08, 2010 9:11 pm

The Kinzua bridge was around 300 feet high, I believe...help me out here, Jim.