If you’re afraid of heights, just go ahead and move on to the next post, because this video might cause you to wet your pants. This is a video of a tower engineer, climbing up a 1,768-foot tower from the perspective of the climber.
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first!
I can see Sutro Tower from my house across the bay. I thought that mother fucker was tall.
second????
first
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I’m not afraid of heights but this one made my hands wet my legs all shaky. Its a real challenge to see the vid all the way through.
I was the same! My palms were sweating hardcore for the whole length of the video!
Panzys Ive been higher really
Marijuana doesnt count
marijuana may not count, bt it sure is fun
same, ive been 35,000 feet.
in a plane of course, this vid made me sweat like a beaver
Video like this carries an important lesson.
Watch it and notice your physical reactions. I myself feel it most prominitly in my legs.
But any physical reaction is the lesson because obviously you are not climbing the tower. You are safe in your chair. It is effectively not real. This particular event accurately occurred but a duplicate of it could be faked, and after all it’s just video now regardless of how it was made.
Here is the lesson. Your brain doesn’t know it’s fake. It thinks you are climbing.
The brain has not evolved to separate fiction from reality when it is delivered audio-visually. The whole concept of deception is not possible from the perspective of most of the brain.
This is important when you realize that other fictions are also treated by the brain as real only they do not cause obvious fight or flight responses, so its easy to convince ourselves that we know the difference between fantasy and reality through and through.
Advertising and mass manipulation of other kinds depend on this ignorance.
This is how TV manipulates desire and how you come to think of them as your own.
Be aware, that your brain is a machine of a kind, and it can be tricked.. Indeed it can be hacked.
How many of your desires are truly your own?
Food for thought.
Conspiracy theorist is conspiring
Wooooow…..that made me nervous. Hope they get paid well
that’s what I was wondering… How much these guys gettin paid?? gettin paid???
They only get paid if they do the really hard part… climbing down.
I hope these guys are paid WELL!
Every time he unhooked his safety hook, I thought “no, dude, don’t do it!”
You know that tower has to be swaying, that’s what really makes you tense.
i want to see the video were he got down….
parachute?
that would be so fun…
Looks around, eagle noise, lands in bale of hay, safe landing.
And then he assassinates the guy at the bottom
and rides a horse for 2 hours……
to get to the next tower..
which contains a wonkavator so he doesn’t have to climb it
they should have parachutes and just jump when they get to the top, fuck climbing down
my thoughts exactly, they should jump down instead of walking
and they get by the pilot who prentends to faint
Parachutes won’t have time to properly open from that height, it’s too low.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASE_jumping
That was tough to watch. Has got to be the scariest job ever.
5:35
“If a storms blowing through, there’s no quick way down.”
Oh yes there is.
My thoughts exactly
GOOD PLACE TO BASE JUMP!
Wait, they do this in the united states? The range of safety laws we enforce is staggeringly stupid. Shin guards are required for soccer, seat belts for driving, but this guy doesn’t have to use any safety lines for climbing this tower of death?
i guess you didnt see him clip his safety line over and over again
He still has the option to use them, you think osha’s gonna come up and check to make sure he’s being safe? Personally I’d rather trust myself to climb this with no safety harness over trusting other idiots and driving without a seat belt.
yeah seatbelts for driving.. What a rediculous idea. Probably came from them damn commies!
It really wasn’t that bad at all.
Sure, I think they’re f*king stupid for climbing like that without any safety precautions, but I really don’t understand fear of heights to the degree you’d get shaky or sweaty just watching a video of it. :S
watch out for the tough guy
First of that guy has balls of steel.
THAT SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED. F%ck what if he passes out from low blood pressure or something. Why the hell isn’t there a floor guard rail all the way around & what if the welds break. That’s fuckin an engineering b.s. design.
I successfully shat my trousers mates!!
The judicial system should fill the climbing positions. Just add it to the list of sentencing penalties.
Stole a car and found guilty eh??? You won’t believe what we have in store for you!!
Seriously though, gimme a parachute and I got that shit!!
In Canada you get paid $17 an hr when you first start, after three months you get paid $22 than after a year you get another raise and it just keeps going up. Not bad if you do it for a long time i guess.
Ya but would you want to be climbing like that when you’re 60?
Yes.
ya its cuz theyre shocked you havent died yet.
wow i was seriously scared for my life
There is no place to base jump from the tower, try jumping off a ladder its the same idea . Plus when you get to the top the tower get pretty wobbley
Sorry, I’m pretty sure you’re wrong about this. People BASE jump off of transmission towers all the time.
This guy has been doing this forever, man no way, my legs would be shakin and i am not afraid of heights. Damn “At this point osha says it’s okay not to use the safety hook because this slows them down”. F%$k that, im using the hook.
Did you bring the phillips head. No dude, I thought you had it in your bag.
Ahahaha.
Seriously scary to watch that vid and I spend most my working day up a ladder/scaffold of some description!
I smell chinese cheese
I doubt they have to do it everyday.
The people who do it on a daily basis do it by hanging from a helicopter, there use to be a tv series in england where they sit on power lines and transmitters while hanging from a heli.
Pretty scary shit and if the heli gets too close the electricty can jump and cause it to blow up.
Pretty scarey shit though, imagine the first day on the job and they ask you to climb that lmao. Think I’d quit on the spot.
I bet iceroad truckers is better
Hey, Bill. Go change the light bulb on that tower. Aaaaah, fuck you Jim.
5:30 Yes there is. Just let go.
BK, it’s supposed to be triple dog dare.
u homo
Holy shit! I haven’t slept last night, so I’m a bit shaky as it is.. Couldn’t watch it the whole way through. :S
if you can see the edged curve, thats when you know your fucked
It must be hard to drag their mammoth balls of steel all the way to the top
At 6:50, he says “This is the tricky part…getting on top.” No truer words were ever spoken…
My step father did that crap when I was a teen… I thought he was crasy then, now I know he was! Yikes!
“He checks on weather conditions” hears Thunder, Hey Bob I think I crapped my pants.
OSHA allows free climbing?
Even more unbelievable: The insurance company allows free climbing?!
Could you imagine forgetting something, going all the way down, then realizing you had it all along?
or you can just take the helicopter.
Parkour? shhhh…. pussies
I’d wonder how much one of them make a year
Eh. Watching that wasn’t really frightening at all. Kinda cool, actually.
Not trying to be some tough guy in saying that. It’s one thing to watch a video of it and not get scared, it’s another to actually do it. I probably couldn’t do it.
Someone please tell me how much he gets paid for this?
Ive got alot of respect for those guys. Wow.There isnt a chance in hell I would do that no matter how much money you would give me. You could promise me a trillion dollars and I wouldnt do that. Not a chance. I wonder how many people have fallen off? It was funny when the guy had to hold the bag from swinging so he wouldnt lose his balance. Scary shit right there.
Thunderstorms eh?
See this whilst on top of that and shit bricks
http://www.hs.fi/thickbox/video/1135259206031
so dumb, this cant be america lol we are amsrter then this first of all why the hell dont they have parachutes just incase something goes wrong.. and second of all whats his purpose of climbing to the top anyhow rofl. and third of all why the fuck do they need a tower that big!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAND that’s why everyone larf’s at america
Sadly yes. This person is the reason the rest of the world thinks us Americans are stupid. Just know that they only make up a small portion of our population. Although they seem to get more numerous every year…..
Please end your stupidity with a rope around the neck.
1st someone has to clean the bird poop, 2nd they look cool from out of space with that blinking light.3rd do what HOBO said. It’s fun
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@ Brandon M. Sergent…You see that’s the only problem with an OPEN mind…. Darn!
It’s just the anti-christ working…like Algorithms…wtf?*?+&$$$%$$#@?wtf??**^** …J/K : )
I kept thinking “don’t look down” and went he go to the top and let GO! to undo his hook thing I was like OMG hold on!, it made my knees go wobbly too. But I’m a heights wimp I get scared at a steep set of stairs
You know, why wouldn’t they just give those tower workers para shoots? You know, if they fall off, they can just fly down. Of course, you’d want cords too, so you don’t have to climb all the way back up, but I’m thinking, if you actually fall, you could glide down. Plus this way, you could get down faster if a storm comes in fast.
Jumping straight into a thunderstorm seems like a fun way to die.
Hmmm not so intensely scary to watch but try and get me to do it and I’m running in the opposite direction.
HOLY CRAP!!!! I can’t take it. I gotta go pee!
when he reached down to scratch his leg i almost crapped my pants…
I’ve climbed towers like that, although not that high. It’s very tiring work, those guys are in good shape (and they don’t get paid nearly enough for what they do!).
How many of you would climb up if there was a real ten million dollar check with your name on it waiting at the top?
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I didn’t get scared… but I wouldn’t run to try this.
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Damn, balls…of…steel.