This is some seriously scary shiz
 

NO F*CKING THANK YOU.

I got nervous just watching it.

I was impressed, then I realized he was changing levels and you could still see both hands, which meant he wasn't clipped in...that's nuts.

Wow, simply wow.

You finally posted the video of what it takes to climb my erect penis?

I've gotta be honest, I wouldn't have the balls for the last part.

Holy shit!

I've got to go find out where my balls went now...they straight up friggin' disappeared.

Going up with no safety line is 'easy'. It'd definitely be scary to climb down without one.


...not that I'm man enough for any of this.

I mentioned to a friend the other day, that I wanted to find a good scary movie that would really scare me rather than relying on something jumping out at an unexpected time. This movie did that for me. Thanks!

BTW, if you made that loud screaming hag image pop up suddenly at the end, it would have killed me.

I know it could have been dangerous/expensive to do, but how awesome would it have been if near the end of the video, the climber detached the helmet cam (without it being too obvious to the viewer), said, "Here we go, goodbye cruel world" and then lightly tossed the camera out a few feet?

I think I may possibly be able to do it, but Id be really slow and be crying most of the time. Id also require a large sum of money.

It's the willis tower, not the sears tower anymore... unfortunately.

You couldn't get me to do that for anything. I got queasy just watching.

zomg that shit looks fun as hell!!! where do i sign up!?!?!?!??! at that height, you only get perception of how high up you are if it sways a little bit in the wind. Still FUCKING AWESOME AS HELL!!!

I used to have a friend that did that kind of work. Gotta have big balls for sure to do free climbing like that. With safety, I would absolutely do that job, but with no safety lines the only thing going through my mind would be me slipping or something I was grabbing on to snapping off and me falling. I'd travel with a chute and base jump off, because I bet climbing back down is twice as rough as going up.

i could do up to the having o go out side part and would pack a parachute every day, fuck climbing back done

The hard part is going back down!! lol

And the fact that it was a helmet cam made it look way more intense than it probably even looked IRL.

A buddy of mine climbed a high voltage pole one day when we were out longboarding. I forget how many feet it was, but if he fell even at 1/8 of the climb he would have died. He just moved some benches to get to the first rung and started climbing. He went to the top, and when he came back down he was soaking wet from sweat. I was actually kinda pissed he did it. The whole time I was thinking what was I gonna do if he fell.

Im disappointed, what were they there to fix ?

God dammit, they took it down!

I know....I wanna see it !

wtf...

What was it called? I didn't look at the title when I watched it. Trying to find it again.

Douchers took it down, here's the original?

These men are BAMF's, I'd need a chute & a very handsome salary...

I'd need a pair of balls, fuck that shit! What is the damn purpose of going up there.....what could they possibly be fixing that could'nt be done remotely?

Looks like they're replacing a light bulb...

yup, 99 cent light bulb justifying what is no doubt a 6 digit salary or two.....

ok, so maybe the light bulb was a little more than 99 cents?

Reminds me of this (anyone know where I can get the entire movie?):

Wussies.

Sounds like something I would have done 10 years ago. Fortunately I outgrew that phase. "WATCH THIS!"

Now that I think about it, would a chute even unpack quickly enough to save you. In base jumping you carry the chute in your hand. Seems like by the time you were going fast enough and had the chute out and inflated you would already be within seconds of splat. I guess you might, but you would have to act quick and know what you were doing, unless you like hanging by cords from a tower.

As far as I know, tower climbers rarely make more than 50k a year.

There is no justice in the world.

Holy crap! BAMF's indeed.

Your chute would come out plenty fast enough to keep you from hitting the ground at that height. Remember, the parachute is beginning its inflation at near zero fall speeds, not at terminal velocity. You're probably also going to carry something bigger than a 99 square foot gauze patch for a canopy. The biggest 2 obstacles in that base jump would be:
A: getting out away from the tower - there's no room to run to gain latteral momentum, you simply "jump" away.

B: the guide wires for the tower. If you can manage to make it 50 feet from the tower on your jump before your canopy inflates, you will only be 50 feet from guide wires to the left and right. If your canopy opens any other direction but forward, there's a lot of potential for bad things to happen.

I think the worst part is the transitions between the different ladder type thingies. And there is a lot of stuff to get hung up on.

Wow that's hardcore! Thanks for posting.

I sent the new link (original video) to a friend and they have already taken it down too. WTF!

Here's another copy:

Thanks for the re-link... Truly amazing.. I think I'd take my chances in a firefight in Afghanistan over that.

Really though, when you think about it, it's not really that bad. I was just thinking of all of the tens of thousands of feet of ladders and scaffolding I have climbed over the years, some very unsafe and never had a slip or fall. What comes into play is nerves when you are over 1/4 mile off the ground.

This is on my list of things to do before I die.

I think I am going to be constipated for the next week. Thank you for sharing.

Have a great day,
Jared

Better make it your last thing on the list.

It looks dangerous, but I bet if you found a statistics page on the job, there is probably a very rare occurrence of death. I know I have never personally seen a news story on the nightly news about a tower worker falling to their death.

By definition, when you are going to do this, you are going to die.

Dimitris

Wow. I felt vertigo just from watching.

Just jump off once you get to the top.

I'd get to the top and realize I had to take a dump. Look out below!

http://www.wirelessestimator.com/t_c...r%20Fatalities

Granted this is a few years old... I think we've had more people die or get seriously inured climbing inside wind turbines, and that's just in the company I worked for. The funny thing is, they're required to be 100% tethered at all times.

Yeah, but that's a ratio. Only 10 deaths per year is a pretty good statistic I think. Of course it's going to look more dangerous with a job that has such a limited number of people.