Guy Climbing 1786 up WITH NO SAFETY LINE!!!

That's just insane. I bet it's hard for him to get life insurance.
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How can osha say free climbing like that is okay!?!?!? That's absolutely nuts!!

Those look like thunderstorms in the background.

Is today april fool's day? I can't see how this is safe. A former employee worked on a tower and saw his friend fall to his death. It happens.
 
cant believe they couldnt like lead climb those with a belay. rappelling back down would also be way easier than climbing down. seems they dont have any training in rope work. There is better ways to climb that thing. Whay cant tree workers freeclimb more than 12 feet without lines. nuts. Not me, not for a stupid paycheck, maybe for fun, but not for a job no way.
 
The tower climbing world is way different than ours. Especially when it comes to OSHA and their climbing regulations and the types of links they use and...

Anyway, its different. Definitely scary stuff. I'm pretty sure I would clip in on every rung. Especially when they crawl on the top and transition from ladders to the other parts.

I also think this tower is about an hour from me over in North Dakota!
 
In some tower installations there is a cable running next to the ladder. A cable crab, similar to a rope grab like we use, is attached to a lanyard and tails up the cable. The climber would have two lanyards with large, locking rope snaps to secure themselves when it's time to pass around a cable stand-off.

A while ago I watched a show that was a bit more real than Dirty Jobs [which I LOVE!] where the host climbed a 1,300'=quarter mile, tall tower to repair the beacon light on the top. At the end of the day the fella had such muscle cramps in his hands and feet that it was hard for him to down-climb the last portion.
 
Dirty Jobs is my Favorite Tom.
Its a little hokey at times but you have got to hand it to Mr. Roe, he has brought so many dangerous underappreciated jobs to the general publics knowledge.
It seems everything in life has a lower lever with filters and some poor slob gets to clean them.
 
The mad man says
"This is called free climbing,meaning that no saftey lines are used, its easier , faster, and most power workers climb this way.........free climbing is more dangerous ofcoarse but OHSA rules do allow for it. Attatching, climbing, attatching and removing saftey lines every few feet slows progress and is tiring....
really? Im having a hard time believing OSHA wouldn't want this guy tied in. A cable and a cable grab like Tom said would give him the confidense he needs to hurry the hell up. Man that dude is slow
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Paid in full...oh, but now I owe Tim!

I'd love to see the OSHA reg that allows free climbing. My Capricorn skepticism says no.
 
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EDIT---I followed the link to AS and didn't find any info on the tower video. What I did find wasn't what I want to have linked to TB.

Tom
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Interesting information about this video.
 
huh?
Well, it's your show.
For the record this is what i linked to. Seems pretty relevant to me.

"First off I want to thank everyone for the great response I got on the video “Stairway to Heaven”, it was really much more than I could have hoped for. Now, having said that I am also very sorry that I could not keep the video up for you to share with your friends and family. I truly am sorry, I can see from the comments how popular it was and that’s why I want to explain what happened.

The footage of the climb came from a friend of mine that does this type of work, I have know him for several years and he has helped me many times in the past. Recently he gave me this video he shot on one of his jobs. I showed him the edited video and he approved it and I put it up on TheOnLineEngineer.Org and You Tube over the weekend. On Monday he was getting calls from colleagues telling him that they were concerned about what the video showed. His world is a very small one, and you don’t want to bite the hand that feeds you! Some facility owners are pretty uptight about liability and such and may not hire him if they think he does not take safety seriously.

So he asked me to take it down, and I did. That was Monday morning (Sep 13, 2010). Today (Sep 15) he told me it was up on You Tube, by the time I looked at it it had over 77,000 views. It was on more than a dozen websites. The chance that someone important would see it was increasing rapidly. So the video most of you saw was one that had been ripped off from my website before I took it down. I wrote asking the guy who put it up to take it down but got no response so I contacted You Tube.

Once again I am sorry about pulling the video, I know that every time I looked at it my legs got weak, there’s no way I could do that type of work. AND THATS MY POINT – I need this guy who made the video, we plan to do more of them, but it won’t happen if he can’t get work because he’s been black listed by the industry. He’s also my friend and I don’t want to see him get hurt because of some video I put up on the internet.

We have had two offers to broadcast this video, a request to submit it to a film festival in France, over 118,000 views on You Tube. This was all much more than we had ever planned for or thought would happen.

AS SOON AS WE CAN WE WILL HAVE MORE VIDEOS ABOUT TOWER CLIMBING, in the mean time please be patient.

And once again thank you for all the comments.

Russ" - Rootsxrocks
 
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