The real stairway to heaven INSANE!!!!

didnt i just post this exact video several hours before you about 3 inches below this on the screen?

thanks.
 
omgggg im in school and i cant watch it cause of the gay blocks but i think i can figure out what this is about threads for sure!
 
shit is seriously fucked- im not afraid of heights but the wind and crazy lack of safety catches would freak me the fuck out
 
hol-e crap.
no way would i do that. Maybe for a million a year (british pounds). Also id want a parachute for the way down, climbing down would be worse than climbing up
 
i would love to do that, but only with safety equipment. like two of these hooks hes got and always have one attached.

would be crazy. cant imagine how crazy it is without safety stuff at all. i almost lost it at the top when he put that carabiner in place and he uses both hands to do that. damn, i cant imagine how you can put your hand away from that steel pole.

but in the end, if you have done it often enough, its pretty safe. its a fucking ladder for most parts.
 
So you have to be well educated AND an adrenaline junky...cool. Was anyone else thinking "will it blend" the entire time?

But seriously, I would never do that, so much sketchiness.
 
never in my would i ever do such a thing! that would be like the worst death ever, falling from 1700+ feet!
 
fuck that. the only way i would go up there is if i had a parachute on my back.

and the fact that they don't even use ropes all the time scares the fuck outta me. It may take longer but shit, I think that your life is a tad more important then getting up there faster.
 
It looked like there was a dude below him. Maybe that guy was harnessed on and attached to the guy up top in case he fell?
 
My uncle used to do that. A couple of his friends fell off while he was up there. Pretty dangerous stuff.
 
wouldn't they just both fall?

I don't understand why they didn't install a vertical safety cable that you could click a friction thing into. So that when you go up it climbs with you. For example on oil rigs there is a counter weighted line with a centrifugal clutch on it so if you go to fast (fall) it slowly lets you down. It seams like the lack of safety gear isnt necessary is what I am saying.

Just about as crazy as those guys who work on super high voltage power lines and basically jump onto them from helicopter.
 
i was thinking the same thing. what a rush to be that high up. im not afraid of heights at all, and i was ok with the climb until they got to that tiny metal pole by the red antenna.
 
I'd do that in a second, looks like such a rush. Guess this generation really is softer, these guys didn't seem to give a shit.

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I saw a show about this on the discovery channel...

They showed a team of workers replace the antenna (which was giant, weighed hundreds of lbs) at the top of the tower (higher than you can climb), so they had to climb as high as possible, and then assemble an extension that could go above the tower. This extension also acted as a way to bring down the old antenna and bring up the new one, with the help of a stationary winch operator down on the ground. It was pretty crazy, but the workers loved their job. It was a dream job for them essentially, the adrenaline and the views were what they lived for. One other thing I found a interesting was their jargon, which had different names for "up" "down" and "stop". And if anyone ever dropped a tool the alarm would be yelled through the radios as "headache!" lol

Oh, and I forgot to add, this tower was well ABOVE 2000ft
 
mountaineers have solutions for the "wouldnt they just both fall"? question, but in this case its nonsense. if its not practicable to use safety equipment for one guy, then its dumb to have another guy doing it and secure the other one someone.

instead they could just both secure themselves then.

and you are so right about the vertical safety cable/rope. i mean, you just need one goddam rope going down (maybe cut in sections so its easier to handle) and you use one of these (or a similar one)

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and BOOM, you can go up but cannot fall down. someone could climb up, install the rope and shit is safe. the way down also would be ten times easier.

i know, these guys are pros, and it might not be that easy or whatever, but i seriously cant understand that. i mean i climb from time to time and work as a high ropes course instructor and i know at least 5 way to make that shit safe.

i guess its all about the badassery though. and i heard bitches love that shit.
 
Wasn't a high percentage of the original steel workers native american? Crazy horses...

And totally agree with the vertical rope. I was thinking about it and for me to do that, with no safety lines, would take a blue bird day and at least 500 million dollars. Even then I might be shaking too bad to make it.

I don't know if anyone else is the same as me, but I have no problem with heights when it comes to cliff jumping or dropping cliffs (to an extent) but get me up in a high tree or looking down from a building and I get really scared. Like looking down from the inside of the Luxor in Vegas.
 
grigri belay device aren't suited for self-belaying, instead you're better off using one of these:
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because grigris bend and twist the rope inside, so its a pain in the ass to move these up/down a free-hanging rope, because the free end always pulls down with some force and locks the device....
while this one basically just bites in the rope if it moves down and releases if you move it up ....

but you still made a valid point, and the reason why they don't belay themselves is probably because they do this or similar stuff daily, once you get used to it, your hands and feet are more the best safety there is....
 
right, i didnt find a pic of the device i meant. i dont even know which brand it is. but its a pretty simple thing, letting the rope straight through in one direction and blocks it with a small round plate of barbed hooks the other way.

its not a grigri, correct. and yes, it seems like its not that big of a deal to go up there.
 
at first i was like thats fine, cuz ive done this climbing thing 3000 feet off the ground straight down with no guide, and then they got to the outer section and i almost got dizzy looking at it

and ya, up i wouldn't be the fastest, but id make it fine, but down would suck so bad
 
i guarantee that there was some kind of platform below them. the metal beam wouldn't just jut out like that without there being a kind of support underneath it
 
There might be a few beams to bounce off but there isn't anything under them to stop a fall.

Op's vid scared me just watching it.
 
yea there most likely isn't anything big under them. These antennae are built for functionality, not to make it easier for the 2 guys who have to climb up every now and then to change the lightbulb and do maintenance.

to do this job i would need safety ropes, and a parachute. It would be a pain to haul a parachute all the way up, but it'd be easier to get down at least. No 3 hour careful step by step climbing. Just 1 little hop.
 
so the entire building is just a bunch of beams and ladders? at that height?

there's definitely a platform or something
 
basically
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and it doesnt matter much if you fall down 30ft onto a steel girder or if you fall 1000ft onto the ground, you're toast anyways ....
 
you do realize this is a communications tower, right? There is no building. It is just beams, ladders and various communications devices up there
 
i saw this a few days ago......... i could NEVER do this ive seen how narrow those pole ladders are... it takes one mistake
 
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