Your job tough?

[vmx42]

Spare a thought for the guys that built it in the first place. 

[AjayVMX]

OMG!!!! 

And the funny thing is, he probably thinks it's a boring job... 

[VMX247]

Hard work climbing up there,   work days would only be- weather permitting 
Never used that one for King Kong     
cheers

[shoey]

[worms]

not fair Shoey!

[worms]

Hey Shoey, in the middle of the glacier, is that a base camp?

can I come on one of these adventures?

Cheers Trev

[shoey]

Trev.

Centre and left of the glasier are protruding rocks.

Sometimes they are fixed and sometimes they are trapped in the ice flow and move with the glasier.

Trapped rocks can travel all the way down and basically drop out at the tonge of the glasier

Our camp was down the opposite side

[frostype400]

You can have a tough job on the ground too I know people who are scared of small places Claustrophobic I am glad I am not because I have to get under houses alot sometimes do jobs by myself if it is really tight.

One house I got stuck under when I was trying to get out I got in there ok but there was a bearer I could pull against to get in there, then I got stuck with just my face and arms out on the way out was stuck there for a while until dad found me and pulled me out.

When you get a bit scared it is amazing how much your muscles swell up and you get stuck tighter alot of the times you have to nearly fall asleep to relax enough to get out it has happened to me quite a few times.

My dad used to let me have a day of school if there was ever any low house to work under which was good get out of school and under a house.

[ty4]

FFAAAARK THAT

i don't care what they get paid it's not enough

[oldfart]

Would like to see a copy of thier JSA  form  ( Job safety Analysis )   
What would the wind speed be at that high up ?         Sorry not for this little black duck.

[Curly3]

You can jamb that right up your cloacka, I got dizzy just watching.

[NR555]

I know a guy who is a deep sea welder (mostly North Sea oil rigs, with the odd 'glamour' job in the middle east).  Goes so deep that he has to breathe surface-supplied heliox and the surface crew translate what he says through a descrambler.  Reckons he's seen some weird shit at those depths.  Probably the only person I know with a job that compares to these tower climbers.  Needless to say he only works 8 weeks a year!

[PERM250]

I WONDER IF THE GUY HAS A PROBLEM GETTING UP IN THE MORNING .my legs were shaking just watching that . yeek.

[LWC82PE]

I watched it again, but its hard to watch and when he said they free climb with no safety connection i thought stuff that. I wonder if its a high paying job and they get heaps for being that brave to do it?

[Colin Jay]

I work as a Service Tech on a wind farm and spend the majority of my working day up on top of wind turbine towers. The top of the nacelle is about 85m off the ground and although I am quite at happy working at those heights, there is no way that I would step out on to the roof of the nacelle without my harness on and securely anchored.

I had seen the clip before as have most of the other tech's at work and we all agree that those guys are a bit on the crazy side. To get to the top of one of our towers we have to climb about 77m straight up a single ladder which goes thru 4 floor levels, no lifts for us;



At present I am working with a crew doing rotor blade changes;





CJ