This isn’t a hunting topic but I thought that you guys would like to see what some guys do for a living. NOT ME! I’m not scared of heights when in a tree stand, but these guys take heights to a higher level! You couldn’t pay me enough! 
I hear you there zimmy bout made me sick just watch all the camera movement 
you’ve got to be kidding me. I got dizzy just watching the video. not in any lifetime for this guy.
How about the guys who iniatially put the steps, ladders and poles up on top of eachother when thier building them. Can you imiagine what its like to take the red poles up and then stand them up in place, then bolt them down. How in the heck do they lift and stand the poles and put them in place befor theres even a ladder up there, nerves of steel thats forsure. I don’t think it would be to hard to climb it but building it for the first time, that takes know how.
No interest here either 
That is crazy
Glad to see they are wearing safety helmets…should help with any head injuries if they were to fall! 
WOW. I’ll pass. I have a buddy that tests smoke stacks for big companies like the paper mills. Every week he climbs to the top of them and ‘hangs out’ for hours on end. They are usually 200-400ft high…nothing like this tower, though.
Got a story for ya but sad but just shows the danger involved sometimes. Up by Rowley Iowa about 40 miles north of me theres a tower and its around 1,900 ft., its supposd to be the tallest one around for many miles. There was three guys working on it. There was two guys on the tower and they had made thier climb, one guy was close to the top and the other was about mid way. The other guy was on the ground in a tractor driving it doing something, but maintainence work. This tower was anchored buy several guide cables going in 3 or 4 directions. They said a tower that tall will sway many feet sideways depending on the wind. Evidently the tractor got tangeled in one of the guide wires and broke, the whole tower came down with the two guys who were on it and both died. Its a job Im not interested in. I do know the lights they put up there are made to last a long time and pricey. Id like to watch them put up a tower just to see how they do it, got it down to a science I’m sure. The pay that those guys make has to be good but its not for me.
OMG…no thanks!
I didn’t bring the lite bulb, did you??? 
It’s interesting to see that this video is still floating around the internet. I’ve read that the original poster has tired to take it down from multiple sights. Apparently these guys caught a LOT of flack over this video. Apparently there was a lot of violations and safety no-no’s in the video. I’ve read that the industry was in an uproar because they allowed the public to see these guys doing this.
I can’t watch this video. I get about 30 seconds into it and I’m about to hurl. Heights is my kryptonite!
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I can’t watch this video. I get about 30 seconds into it and I’m about to hurl. Heights is my kryptonite!
You need to watch the very end Kooty…you’ll love it!
I just ate a cookie dough frosty, I think I’ll hold off for a bit.
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It’s interesting to see that this video is still floating around the internet. I’ve read that the original poster has tired to take it down from multiple sights. Apparently these guys caught a LOT of flack over this video. Apparently there was a lot of violations and safety no-no’s in the video. I’ve read that the industry was in an uproar because they allowed the public to see these guys doing this.
I agree this could be the case easily… especially when I heard them talk about how, it takes too long when you have to keep moving the safety hooks/harnass… dang safety rules
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How about the guys who iniatially put the steps, ladders and poles up on top of eachother when thier building them. Can you imiagine what its like to take the red poles up and then stand them up in place, then bolt them down. How in the heck do they lift and stand the poles and put them in place befor theres even a ladder up there, nerves of steel thats forsure. I don’t think it would be to hard to climb it but building it for the first time, that takes know how.
Most of these towers are put up from the ground using jacks and lifts. Add a section attach cables lift add section lift.
Thats’ what I was thinking… that or assemble a bunch and use a helicopter or something. When they did my really tall 40′ tower for internet, they used a jib crane, attached to the section they just put up and hoisted the next section…. I watched 1 guy put it up in four 10 foot sections, in about 2 hours fairly easily 
no no no no no friggin WAY! Im gonna have nightmares now. thank god for ground blinds. 20 feet in a tree is as high as I can go and that scares me chitless till I get set down and buckled in.
That makes sense Tom, just move the lift everytime you put a section up.
You didn’t bring it, I thought you did,,,but I did bring the climbing peg grease and greased the climbing pegs all the way up
Completely NUTZ
I could not watch – all that camera movement – I thought I was drunk
Ummmm I guess I will shut that off after having some 
WOW , I can sit 30 feet up but that was a tab much
I got lucky enough to build concrete stave silos as a youth. We built from 12′ in diameter by 50′ high all the way up to 24′ x 80′. On that biggest silo, I did get to help stack staves (6 man crew) and spent the whole job in the air with two other guys.
While finishing the job, once the staves had been stacked we would have to hang extra steel around the silo 45′ into the air and that was done by hanging on the side and attaching and tightening steel with hand ratchets w/ 1 1/4″ openings.
Also once that was done the roof, ladder and pipe had to be hung on the silo. I was the guy who stood in the crow’s nest (a 2’x2′ board) and held the top side of the rood sheets. Then once the roof was finished and cap in place I ran the ladder and pipe. That meant I had to hook j-bolts to the ladder and attach to the steel hoops, then if there was a second or third section of ladder and get it attached. The pipe was all together but would need to have the clamps attached and then both the ladder and pipe would need to be straightened. All of this was done with a safety belt on the side of the silo.
On the four man crews, I worked on the ground and in between hooking staves to stack the silo, on the ground we got all that stuff ready by putting it together all the while hauling staves around the silo to be stacked. Each stave weighed 90#. It was a great job, but I think I was a weekend alcoholic!!!
Mark
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