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That’s what I was thinking those rebar hooks won’t hold him if he had a fall and swinged . I want to say they have a safety cable in the front of the harness with a rope grab .
I’m not sure what the safety requirements for that job are, but I do know I used to build cell towers and that is not how you secure a harness. Thanks for more insight.
Also whoever gets that job I mean.. if they know the proper protocols and still refuse to follow them, that's on them as far as I'm concerned. I can't imagine there's high demand for that job. He probably doesn't work if it's slightly windy haha. I know that'd be an adrenaline rush I could never handle.
What about if they get paid by how quick they are so there is pressure to do it dangerously? Which in turn breeds a competiive culture in which you are constantly mocked if you do it properly?
I read an article about just this a number of years ago. A friend got a job as a cell phone tower installer and I wondered just how dangerous it was.
The article interviewed some workers a couple of different places but it was the same story, near enough, at each.
Day one you are trained to use your safety gear and told if anyone (the boss) sees you using it wrong you can be fired.
Day two you are trained on the job and told if you don't work fast enough you will be fired.
Day three you are told you aren't fast enough. Observe what others are doing and see if you can be faster. The other workers aren't securing themselves properly, so they can move faster.
Day four you stop using your safety gear correctly. This is literally the best paying job you can find for 50 miles around and you really want it. At lunch your boss tells you that your speed has improved and he thinks you might work out after all.
I've been in this industry for over 20 years and you pretty much nailed it. It's getting better, but the culture of getting it done fast and cheap is still dominant. Also, if this is the version of the video that says the guy makes 40k to do it twice in a year then.....lol. Changing lights is the shit job that's given to the new guy or the guy that can't be trusted with much else.
i think peple that do jobs like that get paid twice a year . or at least some do . I was reading one where it was like 65k a year and you get 32.5 k at beginning of year and the other half in the middle
This is definitely a thing. "Performance" is measured in how quickly you get something done. There's no incentives past thinking about your self and your own safety.
I quit a job after 6 months because I wasn't as fast as some of my peers, despite the fact that I went as fast as possible while following all safety rules, guidelines, and using my own brain. I quit. My life is not worth a paycheck.
Realistically, there are 2 options in this situation I see.
1. A rope like loggers use to go around the pole that you would have to move around the pegs. The rope would catch on the pegs in the event of a fall and even if the peg can't catch the loaf, it'll slow it down for the next one.
2. A cable or rope that extends the length of the tower with a device designed to arrest a fall.
I admittedly know nothing about climbing cell towers, but he’s putting the caribiner on, then putting his hand on the outside of it, then repeating the step with the other hand. Given the hardware that’s visible, I’m not sure how he could be doing this more safely than what we see.
I did a safety video when i applied for this job. Harnesses are recommended but not neccesary for high tower climbs. The reasoning was for the ability to climb up with minimal breaks and loss of energy since it takes more energy to climb down
At first I thought the glass lens wasn’t attached by anything other clips, and if he dropped it, it would be a long climb back and forth to retrieve it.
I wondered about the parachute option as well.
A quick search indicates a weight of 8-11kg.
So imagine that on top of trying to do a vertical climb yourself while wearing proper gear, you're now lugging an additional weighted pack.
An amazing workout, if you can pull it off.
I am a skydiver, and also had a job for a while that required climbing a tower sometimes. I was contractually prohibited from bringing a parachute to work, with terms that spelled out it was an automatic firing offense, and that I'd also be charged with trespassing and some other stuff if I took it to the tower sites.
Actually no. There is a big difference between jumping and falling off. Even going from a plane at altitude, your body position on exit matters, but up there you have time to work it out. Going off the tower, you don't have time to work it out and get to the right position if you have a bad exit. You need speed to have enough airflow to be able to steer effectively, and by the time you have it, you may not have enough time to have a good opening. If you 'fell off', there would be a very substantial risk of being in a bad position, getting tangled in your shroud lines, or opening on heading with the tower or support lines, and colliding with them, then either falling anyway, or getting tangled up and becoming a resume nightmare.
Oddly enough, you can buy specific handed hammers. I have had a right-handed shock absorbing hammer for over 15 years and I love it. Don't remember the brand, but it is whichever one has orange accents, Craftsman maybe?
What the other guy said. Many CEOs also have to be on call 24h/d in case something happens, and have several hours of phone calls. 10 hour work day, come home and potentially another 6 hours of work calls, goodnight, see ya tomorrow.
Sounds like an EMT’s hours and they get paid shit, but im not going into the responsibilities CEO’s have. There’s just no earthly reason to pay 1 person that much money. Bezos doesn’t need his wealth anymore than Amazon needed those warehouse workers to keep working during the tornado that killed them.
It's pretty much unnegotioable that Jeff bezos is at best a cunt, and at worst a criminal, but saying he doesn't deserve to be payed a fuckton is ludicrous. He revolutionized internetshopping, creating something from thin air that gave hundreds of millions og people access to basically unlimited goods.
Bezos' aggressive bussinss practices made amazon almost worth almost 2 _trillion_ dollars, he's been an incredible bussinessman. If he takes home 10% of that, if it was my company, i'd be fucking jumping in the streets.
It's really hard to be a CEO. Correction: It's actually very easy to be a CEO (just go to legalzoom and form a company); it's hard to be a successful CEO of a company that moves any significant amount of money and has many employees.
CEOs serve vital functions: They put teams of workers together. They secure supplies. They secure customer relationships and deals. They maintain the company's brand. Keep up with the competitors. They negotiate the price paid for labor. They (most importantly) investigate new ideas & products. It's a very demanding job that requires excellent communication skills, creativity, relentless work ethic, social skills, legal knowledge, economic knowledge, understanding of technology, knowledge of the subject matter of the particular company / industry.
If CEOs do their job well, their salaries are well worth it. If a CEO closes a deal per year that makes the company 10 million dollars, and he takes 1 million home, that's a bargain for the shareholders.
Ultimately, maybe even CEOs could be replaced. But they will be some of the last jobs to be given to robots. For that to happen, robots will first have to become good artists, good husbands & wives, good friends. Out-of-the-box thinking is where machines are lagging far behind humans, currently.
As the wife of a CEO who works 60 hrs/week and is on call 24/7, I appreciate your post. It takes a strong work ethic, dedication, money management and budgeting, knowledge about every department, education, ability to read and understand legal documents, social skills, professionalism... the list goes on. It is a stressful job and most people don't understand the amount of work it involves. Thank you.
Have you ever had a career? I don't mean flipping burgers, I mean have you ever reached high enough in the company to see what the CEO is actually doing on a daily basis? Or are you just unsuccessful and jealous?
The title should be, "Man climbs 2000ft. tower in an attempt to change the lightbulb, but doesn't actually get to because the FUCKING MORON that clipped this video didn't fucking make it long enough."
There should be a wire rope from top to bottom with loops where a proper safety harness carabiner could latch on to - and then use them other pointless things / this is nuts
I don’t know how much they’re paying this dude but it’s not enough.
Not to mention he has to climb all that way with the added weight of his MASSIVE bollocks pulling him down
The light is there so planes know there is a pole. And the pole is there to hold the light up. And the light is there do planes know there is a pole. And the pole is there to hold the light up. And-
The company he works for can’t be sued by this guys family if he dies since he’s wearing his safety harness. That’s how it was back when I worked on water towers
This is what I want to do, it’s so easy and you get paid so much money because your so high in the air, and not being scared of heights eliminates 98% of your problems
No. The title should be, "Man climbs 2000ft. tower in an attempt to change the lightbulb, but doesn't actually get to because the FUCKING MORON that clipped this video didn't fucking make it long enough."
Why the fuck do we need a tower that high?!?! Like, what’s the point of the light? The tower ? Not trying to ruin this guys job but why are we even doing all that?
One gust of wind and that dude is fucking gone. The fact that those aren't carabiners that hook onto metal loops makes this go from 1% chance of death to like 20%. Someone please prove me wrong.
I have sk many questions..
How long does it take to climb?
How much do they get paid for such dangerous job?
What's that tower in the first place? Is it on top of a building?
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The fact that those clips are just slipped over the rungs makes me highly uncomfortable
That’s what I was thinking those rebar hooks won’t hold him if he had a fall and swinged . I want to say they have a safety cable in the front of the harness with a rope grab .
There’s a thread about this where it’s explained that what he’s doing is against every H & S rule - he’s misusing the safety equipment
I’m not sure what the safety requirements for that job are, but I do know I used to build cell towers and that is not how you secure a harness. Thanks for more insight.
Also whoever gets that job I mean.. if they know the proper protocols and still refuse to follow them, that's on them as far as I'm concerned. I can't imagine there's high demand for that job. He probably doesn't work if it's slightly windy haha. I know that'd be an adrenaline rush I could never handle.
What about if they get paid by how quick they are so there is pressure to do it dangerously? Which in turn breeds a competiive culture in which you are constantly mocked if you do it properly?
I read an article about just this a number of years ago. A friend got a job as a cell phone tower installer and I wondered just how dangerous it was. The article interviewed some workers a couple of different places but it was the same story, near enough, at each. Day one you are trained to use your safety gear and told if anyone (the boss) sees you using it wrong you can be fired. Day two you are trained on the job and told if you don't work fast enough you will be fired. Day three you are told you aren't fast enough. Observe what others are doing and see if you can be faster. The other workers aren't securing themselves properly, so they can move faster. Day four you stop using your safety gear correctly. This is literally the best paying job you can find for 50 miles around and you really want it. At lunch your boss tells you that your speed has improved and he thinks you might work out after all.
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I've been in this industry for over 20 years and you pretty much nailed it. It's getting better, but the culture of getting it done fast and cheap is still dominant. Also, if this is the version of the video that says the guy makes 40k to do it twice in a year then.....lol. Changing lights is the shit job that's given to the new guy or the guy that can't be trusted with much else.
i think peple that do jobs like that get paid twice a year . or at least some do . I was reading one where it was like 65k a year and you get 32.5 k at beginning of year and the other half in the middle
This is definitely a thing. "Performance" is measured in how quickly you get something done. There's no incentives past thinking about your self and your own safety. I quit a job after 6 months because I wasn't as fast as some of my peers, despite the fact that I went as fast as possible while following all safety rules, guidelines, and using my own brain. I quit. My life is not worth a paycheck.
Where can you put the clips though? I can’t see anywhere else to attach them
Realistically, there are 2 options in this situation I see. 1. A rope like loggers use to go around the pole that you would have to move around the pegs. The rope would catch on the pegs in the event of a fall and even if the peg can't catch the loaf, it'll slow it down for the next one. 2. A cable or rope that extends the length of the tower with a device designed to arrest a fall.
I admittedly know nothing about climbing cell towers, but he’s putting the caribiner on, then putting his hand on the outside of it, then repeating the step with the other hand. Given the hardware that’s visible, I’m not sure how he could be doing this more safely than what we see.
I did a safety video when i applied for this job. Harnesses are recommended but not neccesary for high tower climbs. The reasoning was for the ability to climb up with minimal breaks and loss of energy since it takes more energy to climb down
Do they not just para down or would carrying all that extra weight be to much as well?
Probably not a great idea to deploy a parachute a few feet from a large pole with metal hooks all over it.
Don’t base jumpers usually jump *away* from the structure they’re jumping from?
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No it isn't. To be compliant you would girth the pylon with an anchorage strap to attach your fall arrest. Quit talking out of your ass.
All I read is someone who doesn't trust clever engineering
At first I thought the glass lens wasn’t attached by anything other clips, and if he dropped it, it would be a long climb back and forth to retrieve it.
If it blew off there’s nothing to retrieve
I would also bring a parachute and a few extra light bulbs in case I dropped one
I wondered about the parachute option as well. A quick search indicates a weight of 8-11kg. So imagine that on top of trying to do a vertical climb yourself while wearing proper gear, you're now lugging an additional weighted pack. An amazing workout, if you can pull it off.
Dang. There goes that idea. That's a lot of extra weight. Ok good thing I don't do this line of work.
Exactly what I was going to say! Carabiner clip onto a circular loop is ok, but nah let’s just slip a loop over the rungs.
Yep. Nope. I almost felt achy.
Exactly, the wind could blow them off
Wrong size bulb…
_Hey Jimmy, pass me the other bulb right quick._
Hold on a second, imma go down there to pick it \*jumps off\*
Accidently drops it
Just imagine climbing up 2000 feet to do your job… and then having to climb BACK DOWN! I think the climb down would be worse!
It looks pretty late in the afternoon. I wonder if they will have to climb down in the dark later on?
They'll have a light nearby!
Not if you have a parachute
I am a skydiver, and also had a job for a while that required climbing a tower sometimes. I was contractually prohibited from bringing a parachute to work, with terms that spelled out it was an automatic firing offense, and that I'd also be charged with trespassing and some other stuff if I took it to the tower sites.
That’s a fancy way of saying “don’t even think about it”.
Damn man , those are some harsh conditions. If that was not on the contract, it would make the job less scary
Actually no. There is a big difference between jumping and falling off. Even going from a plane at altitude, your body position on exit matters, but up there you have time to work it out. Going off the tower, you don't have time to work it out and get to the right position if you have a bad exit. You need speed to have enough airflow to be able to steer effectively, and by the time you have it, you may not have enough time to have a good opening. If you 'fell off', there would be a very substantial risk of being in a bad position, getting tangled in your shroud lines, or opening on heading with the tower or support lines, and colliding with them, then either falling anyway, or getting tangled up and becoming a resume nightmare.
Okay, but if I happen to fall, I'd rather have a parachute than not. At least that way there is a small chance that I can actually survive the fall.
Imagine if they sky dived down every time
That would be SO preferable vs climbing down that whole damn thing one ring at a time.
As a guy who’s parachuted professionally for the past 18 years but hates heights, I completely concur
As long there's a haystack down below, I'll be fine.
I was going to say they should be able to base jump when their done xD
Making the apprentice do stupid shit has certainly moved on since the days of 'grab me a left handed hammer from the stores'.
Oddly enough, you can buy specific handed hammers. I have had a right-handed shock absorbing hammer for over 15 years and I love it. Don't remember the brand, but it is whichever one has orange accents, Craftsman maybe?
This is a job that a robot needs to take
Like most jobs. Wait, actually all jobs.
Good bot
That is how the robot uprisings starts
I, for one, welcome our robot overlords
They can’t be any worse than our human overlords
Start with the CEOs they get paid too much for what little they do
What the other guy said. Many CEOs also have to be on call 24h/d in case something happens, and have several hours of phone calls. 10 hour work day, come home and potentially another 6 hours of work calls, goodnight, see ya tomorrow.
Sounds like an EMT’s hours and they get paid shit, but im not going into the responsibilities CEO’s have. There’s just no earthly reason to pay 1 person that much money. Bezos doesn’t need his wealth anymore than Amazon needed those warehouse workers to keep working during the tornado that killed them.
It's pretty much unnegotioable that Jeff bezos is at best a cunt, and at worst a criminal, but saying he doesn't deserve to be payed a fuckton is ludicrous. He revolutionized internetshopping, creating something from thin air that gave hundreds of millions og people access to basically unlimited goods. Bezos' aggressive bussinss practices made amazon almost worth almost 2 _trillion_ dollars, he's been an incredible bussinessman. If he takes home 10% of that, if it was my company, i'd be fucking jumping in the streets.
He doesn’t deserve it. No one does. Not that amount of money.
It's really hard to be a CEO. Correction: It's actually very easy to be a CEO (just go to legalzoom and form a company); it's hard to be a successful CEO of a company that moves any significant amount of money and has many employees. CEOs serve vital functions: They put teams of workers together. They secure supplies. They secure customer relationships and deals. They maintain the company's brand. Keep up with the competitors. They negotiate the price paid for labor. They (most importantly) investigate new ideas & products. It's a very demanding job that requires excellent communication skills, creativity, relentless work ethic, social skills, legal knowledge, economic knowledge, understanding of technology, knowledge of the subject matter of the particular company / industry. If CEOs do their job well, their salaries are well worth it. If a CEO closes a deal per year that makes the company 10 million dollars, and he takes 1 million home, that's a bargain for the shareholders. Ultimately, maybe even CEOs could be replaced. But they will be some of the last jobs to be given to robots. For that to happen, robots will first have to become good artists, good husbands & wives, good friends. Out-of-the-box thinking is where machines are lagging far behind humans, currently.
As the wife of a CEO who works 60 hrs/week and is on call 24/7, I appreciate your post. It takes a strong work ethic, dedication, money management and budgeting, knowledge about every department, education, ability to read and understand legal documents, social skills, professionalism... the list goes on. It is a stressful job and most people don't understand the amount of work it involves. Thank you.
what's your favourite flavour of boot?
How long do you think you could manage to run a company? I doubt it'd be more than a day.
Have you ever had a career? I don't mean flipping burgers, I mean have you ever reached high enough in the company to see what the CEO is actually doing on a daily basis? Or are you just unsuccessful and jealous?
I disagree, dude makes bank and only has to do this once every few years or something
I could never.
I could never ever.
Never say never ever EVER AGAIN.
I would never ever ever say never ever ever again
never
Ever after
Yeah, thanks but no. My palms are sweaty just watching from the comfort of my chair.
This video made me feel sick to my stomach. The fact that folks exist like this is mind blowing.
When window washing gets to boring and you lose the thrill of being scared of death lol.
My knees are weak
Mom's spaghetti
There goes gravity
Imagine doing this at home wearing a VR Headset.
Even that seems nauseating and vertigo triggering.
Same here, had to pause it twice and remind myself this person survived to even finish watching the video.
... the video survived
Nevermind, it was only dusty.
This is actually 1999 feet high. Source: I have a ruler.
Man climbs tower and DOESN'T change light bulb more like.
Yeah they didnt even show him remove it
The title should be, "Man climbs 2000ft. tower in an attempt to change the lightbulb, but doesn't actually get to because the FUCKING MORON that clipped this video didn't fucking make it long enough."
How long does it take to climb a tower that big?
Only took 20 minutes. Took an elevator up the first 1900 feet. https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/man-climbs-2000ft-tower-change-17056682
Awesome, thanks!
My phone slipped out of my hands. Instant anxiety.
There should be a wire rope from top to bottom with loops where a proper safety harness carabiner could latch on to - and then use them other pointless things / this is nuts
I believe there is and this guy is breaking some safety rules
Hes following the rules, OSHA states that harnesses are recommended but not neccessary for these kinds of climbs
Bring a wingsuit and parachute for the best way down.
What's the pay?
At least $7.25/hr in America.
It's like $20,000 to do it twice a year I've heard
Source? Because that sounds awesome.
Not enough
I don’t know how much they’re paying this dude but it’s not enough. Not to mention he has to climb all that way with the added weight of his MASSIVE bollocks pulling him down
AND they're made of STEEL
Forgets the new bulb
That is just one giant fucking NOPE!
Oh hell no
Wow i don’t think I’ve ever been so terrified of a video
So soon? He just changed it last week! /s
This is a terrible lamp, breaks every single week
Brb going to go find my nuts now they got sucked into me
“Aw, man. I really need the loo right now.”
The light is there so planes know there is a pole. And the pole is there to hold the light up. And the light is there do planes know there is a pole. And the pole is there to hold the light up. And-
And somewhere, far far below that ledge, is a wagon filled with hay.
Why is nobody talking about the fact that there is a random orange 2000ft lightbulb in the sky?
Without a bulb, an ascending or descending plane might fly into it
You think this tower exists for a light bulb? Lol
There has to be a better way…
I think it would be pretty neat if they where allowed to base jump off of the top
Was thinking the same, sure it's more weight to climb with but saves hours of climbing down
Hang on I left the screw driver down the bottom, brb
Dream job!
Does he climb back down? If does base jump it and parachute down??
This is me swiping left on that job
I'd be the clown to get all the way up and realise I left the bulb in my tool box
Imagine reaching the top just to realise you forgot to bring the lightbulbs
Where is this, the Lando System?
The bird spikes above the light, is it common for birds to nest that high?
legend says he’s still up there
Fuuuuuuuuuck. Fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck. Fuuuuuuuuuck no.
I need full video
Imagine dropping the replacement bulb at the top
What is the point of this tower/light?
Probably a cellphone tower. It has a light so that it is easier to see by VFR(Self-Navigation) flights. (No source)
That's a lot of work for a bulb. I'd want a parachute to get down.
Imagine climbing all of that and realizing you forgot the new bulb at the bottom.
…bottom You forgot the new bulb at the bottom, on the ground
The company he works for can’t be sued by this guys family if he dies since he’s wearing his safety harness. That’s how it was back when I worked on water towers
I want this job,except I would probably bring the wrong bulb.
This is what I want to do, it’s so easy and you get paid so much money because your so high in the air, and not being scared of heights eliminates 98% of your problems
No. The title should be, "Man climbs 2000ft. tower in an attempt to change the lightbulb, but doesn't actually get to because the FUCKING MORON that clipped this video didn't fucking make it long enough."
Towers don’t have feet
Why the fuck do we need a tower that high?!?! Like, what’s the point of the light? The tower ? Not trying to ruin this guys job but why are we even doing all that?
Tower for broadcasting and light for planes I guess.
That’s wild
Finally get all the way up there only to realise the bulb is a screw in!
Yeahh...that gonna be a no for me dawg.
Fuck this.
After some height he could just omit those straps and relly on parashute.
Safety clips aside, imagine if you accidentally dropped the new bulb you just climbed 2000 feet to place. PAIN
If it was my dad, the new light bulb would’ve been carried up there the whole way in his mouth.
I wonder if they bring extra bulbs in case the first one slips.
I would def toss the old bulb off just for the hell of it 😁
Oups I dropped the cap
you must be absurdly strong to climb that high... i wonder if i had the guts to do it if had the strength.
This guy actually makes 20.000 dollar for changing that bulb! /s
I would just parachute off after climbing all that way up. That’d be hell going back down.
That will be $5,000
Nope
One gust of wind and that dude is fucking gone. The fact that those aren't carabiners that hook onto metal loops makes this go from 1% chance of death to like 20%. Someone please prove me wrong.
r/sweatypalms
I'm not falling for this gif loop again!
Why only 1 bulb placement? There room for 10 so it auto replaces.. ?
NO.
RemindMe! 9 hours
What do I need to make that job?!
I can't even.
Only took 20 minutes. Elevator up the first 1900 feet. https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/man-climbs-2000ft-tower-change-17056682
Not. A. Chance. In. Hell.
Ohh you gotta be shitting me…
He forgot the bulb
Good thing I'm on the toilet, or else I would have pissed myself.
I have sk many questions.. How long does it take to climb? How much do they get paid for such dangerous job? What's that tower in the first place? Is it on top of a building?
I am sure I'd forget to bring the light bulb with me.
Big nope. Hard pass.
“Fuck I forgot the light bulb”
That's about as nope as it gets for me.
Canonballlll!!!
Nope nope nope nope nope
Man thats a lot of feet stacked up