There was a local cell tower installation company that was advertising for tower workers in the local newspaper. The rate of pay was just above minimum wage, it ran for months in the paper. Must have been no takers.
There was a local cell tower installation company that was advertising for tower workers in the local newspaper. The rate of pay was just above minimum wage, it ran for months in the paper. Must have been no takers.
I would get hazardous duty pay for tower work, about 4 times my normal pay for every minute I was on the tower.
That tower worker job was probably ground work.
I think Iron workers are the insane bunch; I'm usually ok with heights as long as I can cling to something; once I'm free of anything I can cling to; I'm a mess.
Truth is your pretty messed up bad in a fall after 40 feet or so if you survive. An Iron worker that doesn't tie himself down and walks a beam I can't even imagine the fear; I get creeped out stepping up to a cliff.
I can't get any closer that 10 feet or so; put me on a ladder on the cliff no problem.
This is something that is beyond the scope of my imagination.
We were taught to have at least three points on the tower at any given time. IE one hand and two feet.
Thats why we looked so funny going up the towers and why it takes so long.
Above 300 feet or so we would need to stop and take a brakes to catch our breath.
We always had a safety line and thank god I never had to use it.
I climb ham radio towers for my ham buddies that are too old to do it (even though I'm 73). Heights never bothered me; getting into tight, underground spaces is something else. I recently climbed a 60ft tower using a new-fangled OSHA approved harness. What a piece of crap! I'll keep my old lineman's belt...
My wife has acrophobia, but yet she is a pilot, and has no trouble from the airplane...