Work-at-height jobs

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alex=

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I've already googled, can't really find a list...

It's about time for me to start thinking about careers or medium or long-term jobs, and working-at-height would be fucking awesome.

Does anyone know anyone who does this, companys who work at height, or industrys that mainly deal with contracts, clients, or whatever that are centered around heights? I think doing something at height would be an awesome job... i.e. scaling one of the worlds tallest buildings to replace a broken window pane, etc

+k to good answers

thanks for the read
 
I was on a cruise ship, they had window cleaners who hung off the edge of the boat. 60% of the employees were from the Philippines though so i guess their pay is shit, international waters anything goes.
 
Really? that's pretty dope. i've never gone on a cruise before, how high are they above water level at any given time?
 
I rode shotty on a boom truck with a 135' jib that was used to deliver steel to jobsites and would regularly ride the crane up to wherever the beams were going which was usually between 15 and 100 feet off the ground with no safety equipment. From there I would set the steel then walk the beam to disconnect the crane strap. I'd set all the beams that way, ride the crane down, pack up the truck, then sleep all the way to the next job or back to the shop to load up again. Best summer job ever, paid fucking bank.

if you don't know what a boom truck is, it's one of these fuckers.

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+ karma for posting this... always thought it would be ill to be a windocleaner or work on skyscraper.

id probly be doing switchups on the ibeams till i fell to my death tho.
 
Have you ever had to pull a

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Was about to say that.

But our mast is silly high at 25m (85 ft) and the new Open 70 is even more extreme at 31.5m (103 ft)

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Views are absolutely spectacular up there.

Even scarier was the Wally Saudade, during some event they let people climb up the 60m (197f t) mast

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My old room mates brother use to chop tree limbs. High high up in trees with a chain saw swinging around. I will post some of his vids when i find them.
 
Arbor is a cool way to make a living, even though it's not super high up, its challenging and every tree and job is different, which could be good or bad depending on you.
 
One of my roommates back in Colorado was getting into this. He started as the person that removes snow from business roofs and apartment buildings and what not. Then started doing more stuff like he got to change all the lights in the barn at Woodward at Copper. He stayed with the business about 3 years and his boss offered to pay for his certification to be able to do rock wall grading and stuff to remove potential hazards over the freeway and stuff. I'm not sure if this ever happened since I haven't talked to him in over a year, but he really enjoyed it.
 
when i was in 8th grade i was skinny as fuck and slid through the gate at my local radio tower, climbed the ladder to the top, walked across this rail-less catwalk 600 feet up, shit my pants, then crawled back to the ladder
 
forgot to add, i didnt tell anybody but my older brothers friend overheard two cops at the mcdonalds which was right next to the tower talking about me climbing it,. they must have had cameras or something and let me climb down and walk home or something, cause i told nobody, but people knew. and that way my parents and everybody found out about it.

i wouldve just climbed the fence but it had spiral barbed wire on the top- good to be skinny.

my parents never confronted me about it and it wasnt till later that i told some of my parents friends about it with my parents present and my parents like let me know they knew about it but didnt want to talk about it. my guess as to why they didnt talk about it is cuz my mom would have been mad, but my dad probly quietly thought to himself that it was badass
 
I do bridge inspections once in awhile and have to go under them with a special boom truck that lowers me from the top then goes under it, depending how high the bridge is I can be pretty damn high off the ground.
 
I had an interview for this, in Plymouth MN, but turned down the job temporarily for a high paying temporary job till next summer.. I'd be a strobe light bulb changer
 
also it wasnt that dangerous the time i went all the way to the top cause i brought my brothers rock climbing harness and there was this cable going all the way to the top that was in front of the ladder, and every 10 yards there was this like cable holder that you are supposed to pull the cable out of and lift your carabeener over the cable holder then lock the cable back in its holder. so the most you could fall is 10 yards.

i climbed about a third of the way without a harness on an earlier occasion but used a harness when i went all the way to the top.

walking around on the no handrail steel mesh catwalk up top without a harness and without holding on to anything was scary as fuck tho, cause it was fairly windy up there
 
the company is Above Summit Construction Services, site is abovesummitconstructionsvcs.com

I turned them down before they made a salary offer though, postponed it until april 2013, but you might want to work somewhere that will pay for you to get certain safety training, like OSHA 10, confined spaces, hot work, etc first, since that's good to have on the resume.

I got all that training in the ND oilfields, which is also a definite option right off the bat (if you're in the U.S. anyway) you can PM me if you want more specific details!
 
Yup been there and done that, except I was inspecting drawbridge towers. I don't think heights at work are even that fun though. OSHA wants us to do everything so excessively safely that adrenaline isn't even a factor any more.
 
Work for the power company. I have a friend whose godfather works for PG&E and they let him hang by a rope from a helicopter, drop him down to the lines, he fixes them, then he's lifted up and is flown to the next spot. You'll get paid really well, but you'll be performing that job at inconvenient times, and during wicked weather.
 
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