Salute to you, kind sir! Being a tower worker myself I always wonder how we're constantly training to be better, more efficient and safer up there, while driving on the road is actually less predictable and I think more risky than this job - mostly because on the tower there's smaller group of random people able to screw something up and kill me in the process than there is on the road.

Well I hope the fuck you was double hooked ✅✅

@@openrange4999 and of course, A SAFETY NET ,

@@openrange4999 😂😂 Safety first!

With no shoes but socks on ?? - because if you had socks on then you should be paid at least what these guys are getting for sheer audacity and daring! Well done 'ole mate!

Whoaaaaa !

Yeah, no kidding. Join the club. Those guys are everyday heroes to me.

howardstern'sphinctersayswha??

🤣😂🤣 I can feel it tightening as I watch this 😂🤣

and very large ones too!

Those jobs are so cool I'd do them for free just for the fun! Unless I had to climb up there, I'd want to get paid for that. Ugh.

What amazes me is that they link their safety harness to a foot peg those last 10 feet, where it could literally just slip right off. The only way you'd get me up 3 stories was if I was unconscious...

NAW, Its said that Diamonds R the hardest materials known to man🤔 SO, Perhaps “DIAMOND NUTS” would suffice😁 👍 “GIT’ER D U U U U N E”...

@@TheBsavage KNOCK YER SELF OUT😂

Hey cool!

They're fine. They have helmets on.

@@innate4994 useful if they fall 🥺

You were in the Minor Leagues while these guy are in the Majors. lol

They are going to new heights!

@@innate4994 😂😂😂😂

I darn near ripped the arm off my recliner.

Very well said brother❤

I guarantee those guys “dangling off the corner” have huge respect for the pilots’s skill!!

O M G in heaven! WOOT!

By using the mindset that a 20 foot fall could kill you.

I used to do billboard till one day I slipped on a 80' my PPE saved my ass but ever since I couldn't even get more than 10 feet before I lost it.

Thank god there's guys like this, you ain't getting me up there!

@@beekeeper8474 Billboards here too and when the wind started blowing and the structure started boucing and swaying I couldn't help but picture in my head about falling..now I hate heights.. these guys are awesome !

Whether you fall from 100 ft or 1,000 ft, the impact is the same.

Ye steel is nuts. I've always said I would parachute or bungee jump, but these towers just look scary to climb lol.

@@Hateious Yeah man. They say you can feel 'em flexing and swaying too. Lightning is the biggest danger.

ya'll are half bonkers, I mean you got the massive EMFs to fry you as well as the insane heights and other dangers...gotta be a better way.

and yeah, cats have trouble getting back down sometimes 2, common dilemma.

Add me to that. I climbed a 500 ft tower in Oman with the riggers for a safety inspection. It took me over an hour to climb up but two hours to come down. As you say, looking at the next rung going up is straightforward but as you come down, the natural instinct is to look down and that's when it all kicks in. Rigers are not paid enough.

And thats why the clanging we hear isnt the tools or bolts, its the immense balls theae guys have swinging around hitting the metal.

Never in a million years. I wouldn't get ten feet off the ground!

I climbed towers and I’m still working, don’t climb towers anymore but your not retiring early unless you fall off the tower and live. James C is spot on with his comment!

I'd like to see them take Colin Kapernick up there

Ken And then gravity bring him back down?

True but no one pays to watch them do it.

@@MichaelsJohnDeere gotta love that $20-30 an hour wage. I miss broadcast..

Looks like a team effort to me, the pilot is skilled no doubt, but the guys on the iron are an example of supreme brass balls.

Uh..."flying skills" not really involved here. A computer - or several - is flying the chopper. Probably monitoring a few thousand inputs per second. No human could handfly with this degree of accuracy...

Yep I'm sure your right Leon. The computer that controls the anti torque rotor can calibrate the bolt hole alignment to with that finer degree. Damn good gps ! ultimately the final control of the cyclic and collective will still come down to the judgement of the pilot.

That's why external load is the most difficult rating to obtain

@@kymtaylor5433 I've spent a lot of years in the Four Peaks wilderness area east of Phoenix. Back in the 80's McDonnell Douglas would flight test Apache gunships out there. There was this one particular chopper that would do hover tests up against the side of side of a hill about a mile away. Every afternoon when the wind kicked up. It would hang there for an hour and more. In exactly the same spot. So one morning I hiked over there with my 10.X 50's and my Nikon F with a long lens. I positioned myself a couple hundred above. Maybe 300 feet distant. Right on schedule he shows up. Did three or four rolls of film. What amazed me is that the pilot was reading a magazine the entire time. Totally hands off. The breeze was gusting coming up off the desert floor. Kicking up pretty good. The Apache was like a rock. This was over 30 years ago. Before Windows 95. The PC was still 386. No pictures. No video. Now we're looking at AI-assisted flight controls. In the near future the flight crew of a large commercial airliner will be a pilot and a Doberman Pinscher. The pilot will monitor the instruments and the dog will bite him if he touches anything.

I literally imagined what would happen if they dropped one of the nuts. I'm sure they must go up with extras. But can you imagine being the guy told to go down to find it?

Now that's funny!

FSDraconis Finding dropped equipment is dead simple. It always lands dead centre of the most expensive piece of equipment on the ground below.

Bolts? Yes. But I don’t have the nuts for this.

@@FSDraconis Or the guy UNDER the dropped one. OUCH

The guy wires evenly distribute the load over a wider area.

😊😅q 3:53 is theN. N. M M

I like this comment. Thank you.

They're probably afraid of spiders and snakes.

@Rage Theatre2020 tbh some of the guys I work with would be loaded up on vodka and cocaine.. but from the night before.. road work / tower rigger life

I reroofed my own house and I settled for satellite tv. I know I couldn’t work on a tower.

@@nico8587d actually its easier to climb a tower than stand on a roof for me. The highest I have climbed is 100 meters

@@doninventura9474 Actually most of us fear closed spaces.

Check out "Stairway to Heaven" tower climb. Nutz!

I agree, these guys have got to be crazy to even think about doing this job.

c'mon, Nic! Name a few others!

me: I WILL NOT Date my wife's only husband! I wont do it, man. It's wrong where I come from, nic, man.nic man.

Thanks for your service.

I have worked on 🇬🇧 UK TV Broadcast masts and swopped out AWL’s on numerous occasions and never have I heard of a helicopter being used with a man sitting in a sling 🤦🏻‍♂️😂 I would defo question your mates integrity 🤥 Charlie

They don't typically ride a chopper to replace strobes. They climb the masts.

Mike Wolfe from Iron Mountain?

We climb man. They aren't going to spring for a chopper to take you up their and change a bulb.

@@davidwhitehouse8920 it does seem a bit insane

I started at 11.00 he in 1999. Got a dollar more in 30 days.

I agree. Whatever it is is not enough. They have my utmost respect

They are safe up there, with their safety line attached.

@@globe255 until a gust of wind blows the helo sideways or down(neither one is good) at the wrong time and viola, everyone is dead.

I wouldn’t be surprised if these guys enjoy it so much that it barely matters. Anyone willing to do this must have some crazy thrill seeking needs.

It's totally enough. They're doing it, aren't they? Heck, I'd do it for minimum wage. It looks like fun.

It would be nice to know how much they get paid. Anybody know?

@@daviddavidson2111 Did a quick google. It's around $56k Median so the upper levels get paid nicely. They probably either work contract by the hour or wages in a company. Either way, not terrible. The heli crew probably get even more

Thanks for the info. I bet it gets the heart going, wouldn't mind trying it once though, with a bit of tuition beforehand.

I was an Antenna Specialist in the USAF. I never got to work on this tall of an antenna. 400 feet was the tallest. We built two 400 feet Loran C antennas in the middle of winter in S.Korea in January and February 1980.

igorsikorski'ssphinctersayswha??

I don't know how much you think they get paid, but it's generally less than $20/hr. I think they are worth 4 or 5 times that.

@@wirenutt57 No way its 20 hr more like 80 to 120.00 probably 80 an hour on top of reg pay

@@wirenutt57 LOL. These guys make bank and retire early.

TooManyHobbies Deserve? EARN! Gets my knees week on my I-pad...

@@16thdave You are so wrong its not even close to correct. Maybe some of the senior guys make that much, but I doubt it. I worked on cell tower equipment on the ground, and talked to climbers and they don't make that much. The company itself charges a crazy amount to have the people to climb, but the insurance they have to carry is incredibly high.

Agree, love the fasteners part. Now trying to explain this fasteners love to wife...

Whatever makes money and feeds you and/or your family is a job.

or the other way...job done in pyjamas is not hard

@@havoc1482 nah. streaming on twitch to incels with your tits hanging out isnt a job. and ripping people off isnt a job either

they have to climb up it anyway to grab all the rigging. I believe that chopper detaches the load itself but there's still straps and rigging to grab off it. That's what the pegs are for. I do this for a living but havent had any chopper jobs yet. Another fun fact -- to climb those antennas you have no safe tie off point, you can tie off to the pegs but they aren't rated for a fall load, just for resting.

Phil Schultz Even if all of the Rigging were self detaching, someone is going to have to change the Bulbs in the Navigation Lamps atop the Antenna at some point anyways and s/he can grab the Camera on their way past.

FUCK your camera!!!!

" It's Your Camera Boss"

I’ll pay for the damn camera myself, before you make me go get that one way up there.

There won't be many words spoken - they all know exactly what they are doing.

Exactly, and it is the reason All construction workers deserve better pay around the World!

And believe it or not id say most of those guys love what they do.

Ive made less than any of you! You wanna go?! Cmon budy

how big is the respect

Because they're watching you 👀

We had a tower engineer who worked under contract with most of the radio & TV stations in my city. When he worked, we'd all power off our transmitters and because there wasn't really an interlock, anyone who wanted to collect easy overtime would guard the remote control panel in master control, and wait for a call from the antenna engineer. That was the wild thing: there were phones on the antenna masts, so we'd get a call and hear "this is Frank calling from the west tower..." One time Frank was making his ascent and a radio station turned their transmitter back on when he was right by their antenna. He made it off the mast by himself after someone realized the mistake, but after hearing his story, I lost all interest in seeing the masts up close.

And WKRP in Cincinnati is still broadcasting today..

@@StringerNews1 is he ok because of the radiation?

@@SJ_999 I don't know. I lost touch with Frank, but heard that he had taken early retirement after developing cancer. It's not exactly a smoking gun, but the fact that he developed cancer shortly after being irradiated up close and personal by 5 kW or RF energy does seem to suggest that there's a cause and effect present. I can only guess that he was asked to indemnify the radio station against damages in order to get insurance after that.

@@SDPBALLCOACHmy first thoughts! 😂

Guy cables

@@kenyonprunty5758 didn't see any on the way up?

That's what she said..........

@@TheJer-jg4nz lolz. u win the net for this month.

@@TheJer-jg4nz nature made.

We work to take care of family.

You were probably pretty well paid however..? How high are these guys anyway?? Any idea??

@@SDPBALLCOACH 1000 ft per the video description

Almost sounds like railroading, LOL.

Super woosie watching this. Instant fight or flight.

I hear ya. I rappelled into underground caverns some 200ft straight down, and gone ziplining for 1/2 mile 200+ft. off the ground. The adrenaline cancels out our fear. Only afterwards does it hit you: "HOLY CRAP! I just did that!"

I was seriously wondering if these guys carried parachutes! (BTW, love your name and picture. I love the whole 100 series. I have read When Thunder Rolled by Ed Rasimus who flew Thuds in Vietnam. A great book!)

@@johnrandall125 Thanks. Great book by a great pilot. Hard to believe half a century has passed since then.

And get shredded by the guy wires.

You could pee off the side and it would become a cloud before it hit the ground.

@@AndrewR-lv9qr what about taking a crap ?

@@derekhall1934 blame it on the birds...

@@AndrewR-lv9qr 😆

@@AndrewR-lv9qr bruh imagine just walking by and some shit traveling at terminal velocity smashes through your skull

I’m watching it on an iPad and it’s making me dizzy! The perspective of the height is mind staggering.

@KILLING⚡HEROS BenQ 1080p. It's a model from about 7-8 years ago that i got on sale a couple years back for 470 bucks. a similar model is hard to for new for under 700 bucks now. if you are shopping for a projector the best brands for the money are Benq and Optoma. my projector is semi short throw and creates my 165 inch screen at 15 foot distance. bulb on ECO mode is 6500 hours which means i got to replace a 75 dollar bulb every two years. my bulb is at 4900 hrs which means i got to replace it in about 6 months from using the projector on average for 8-10 hours a day. i think the 1080p projector looks better than my cheap 4k tv because the color accuracy is way higher. if you got a big flat wall a projector is the way to go. 3D movies are better with DLP link at home than they were at the movie theaters because the tech works better.

Yeah, where's the sense?

Basic economics you dumbass. Supply and demand. Sports brings in billions of dollars. You wanna redistribute the wealth? Sounds like communist propaganda citizen.

Back of the net !!!!

@@havoc1482 muppet

‘GUY’ wires.......guy.

@@chooch1995 " Not you" left a good comment telling us something interesting and all you can do is point out one little issue with it !? How about YOU leaving an informed , interesting comment ? No ? Little surprise with a profile name of " Choosh "

Boss: "Oh, you're gunna get it, one way or another. You can climb down on your own, or I'll get you there...faster." :O

joe quillun OK BOSS! I’LL BE TWO MINUTES!!

He says “sure thing boss I will hurry“ They watch him climb all the way down and when he reaches the ground he walks directly to his pickup; from there he drove to the unemployment office.

Funny. But in reality their tools are brought up on another load so they don't have to hike it up there.

@@joepromedio spoil sport. :)

Jim Hoppy Whenever Falling from a great height remember to kick off against the wall with your Right Leg. It won't do anything to Stop your Fall, but it will Turn you Around, so that you can enjoy the great view on your way down.

Would parachutes be of any use? Or just too much stuff?

Ok then apply they hire like crazy