Dave Mellor NJ Posted January 23 Share Posted January 23 Anything you would do differently? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8E45E Posted January 23 Share Posted January 23 They do the same today. Only thing missing are wheel chocks. Craig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wayne sheldon Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Been there. Done that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dship Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Never been there, would never do that...totally afraid of heights! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Mellor NJ Posted January 25 Author Share Posted January 25 Been close to there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wayne sheldon Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 (edited) I have a very healthy respect for heights, and generally take reasonable precautions and care in climbing. Usually. I did communications contracting for most of my adult career, and climbing towers was a large part of that work. I never had to climb any of the really tall towers. My dad on the other hand on several occasions had to climb towers to over 500 feet! I think the highest I ever had to go up a tower was about 200 feet. There was one tower that we installed that topped out at 150 feet, which we serviced for over twenty years. I went clear to the top of that tower hundreds of times! A well built properly guyed tower is fairly stable, and for me comfortable to be near the top. The scariest tower I was ever on was just over 30 feet tall, on a hillside and very unstable, leaning over a good ten feet! Felt like it was going to buckle over every second I was on it, and the way it was leaning on the hillside a lot more than thirty feet down! We didn't climb towers all the time, and only carried the belts when we expected to need them (riding around in a service truck is not good for the belts!). Often, when I would discover that a problem was "up there", and I didn't have the belt with me? I climbed the towers without a belt. (OSHA would have freaked out if they had known at that time!) But I knew how, and I was careful when doing so. I also on a few occasions put my extension ladders in the back of my pickup truck if it was just two feet too short. And a few times had to lean ladders agains the strand between poles if that was where a problem was. My eldest son was really into rock climbing for many years. He climbed "Half Dome" in Yosemite a few times. Kind of a funny thing. I just never could see the fun in rock climbing? After climbing towers literally hundreds of times? It just looked like work to me? Edited January 27 by wayne sheldon I hate leaving typos! (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Mellor NJ Posted January 27 Author Share Posted January 27 At least you had a pole to lean against Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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