Scared of heights?

[Jim I.]

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This guy has some balls! I watched this video online and sent it to my lineman buddy. He should apply for a job with the local power company!

 

[Mike A.]

Not a big fan of heights. Bothers me just to watch some of those videos like that. HATED even having to climb poles with the phone company. I did it, but I didn't like it.

 

[bigredfish]

SAme here. Spent a few years on the line gang for old ATT and never did care for climbing poles.

 

[BORIStheBLADE]

That guy is nuts. Even if he wore a harness that could be dangerous alone. The amount of sway that must have bothers me..
I spent three years building a NFL stadium and got to work on the top of the scoreboards and inside a sign hanging over the stadium. After 70 feet I start to get a bit uncomfortable on a lift.

 

[OICU2]

The following video was floating around for a while of a lineman on a high tension wire with a bike. Midway through the video he encounters a broken strand and has to unhook the bike to get around it. Balls of steel. If I recall it wasn't a live line, but a new install and he was adding devices so aircraft/birds see the wire.

 

[TonyR]

Climbed 3 different airport beacon towers about 3 times each in Nor CA to replace rotating beacon lamps, tell tale lamps and 1 motor. They were about 75 feet tall, that was enough for me.

Talk about making a guy pucker...and I don't mean my lips, either.

 

[CCTVCam]

Couple of tragedies recently. Here's just one:

Remi Lucidi known for high-rise stunt dead after falling from 68 floor

Remi Lucidi, 30, fell from the top of a Hong Kong residential skyscraper, the Tregunter Tower, as he attempted to pose for a photograph. Known as 'Remi Enigma' he had 3,000 Instagram followers.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[TonyR]

Couple of tragedies recently. Here's just one:

Remi Lucidi known for high-rise stunt dead after falling from 68 floor

Remi Lucidi, 30, fell from the top of a Hong Kong residential skyscraper, the Tregunter Tower, as he attempted to pose for a photograph. Known as 'Remi Enigma' he had 3,000 Instagram followers.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Wow....721 feet.
I'll bet he made quite an impression...and a mess.