Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Are any of you NUTS this crazy? Climbing Transmission Towers...

It would take me about 5 hours to climb because I would damn sure not "free climb" as they called it.

Lower me down from a helicopter, but there is no way in hell you get me to climb that!

I wonder how much sway is in the structure as they climb it?

I think the worst part ,is the helmet is on the guys head,and he keeps looking up and down.

I used to be a roofer. I never got anywhere near that high, but I was in some places that would splat you very dead if you got careless.

Only a fraction of the height of a transmission tower, but still not something I would ever do..

One of our AK nuts is a comm tower fella. I don't know if we have towers that tall however. I think climbing in the wind and cold makes up for it, eh Jeff?

I love heights and would climb that, but when I took a break, I'd wrap the safety line around the pole and not just hook it over an open rung!

Also, when he got about to the top and was climbing the 1-1/2" pipe, I bet it had a little sway!

Worked all my life as a crane operator, and took thousands of men up on the headache ball. I have always been afraid of heights. I would never ride the ball or a basket and I damn sure wouldn't climb one of those towers!! They had shots of some men coming down air mail south of Houston when a TV tower collapsed, it takes special people to be high men.

Can't get the video, but I figure if I climb rocks for fun, a ladder is no biggy, much bigger holds.

Not your ordinary ladder, Paul. This tower was on the order of 1400' 1768' tall.

Didn't Steelhead do this sort of thing when he was in Alaska?

Here's a good link to the same video, I think.



No way in heck I could do that

My wifes business partners father-in-law owned a company that built those towers. His funeral was the worst one I have ever been to because the pictures the family chose were all of him hanging off various structures at dizzying heights. I nearly got sick to my stomach looking at them. BTW he did not die in a fall.

That ain't a word!! And my auto ain't got a "tranny," either. Nor do I own a "Remmy or a Loopy."

End of rant, but stay tuned.

I know, but I did climb this a few years back, not quite that high, but pretty close.





(not me, I didn't have a camera on that trip)