Luc says:

Excuse me while I kiss the sky…

WmDE says:

Towers are built with a device called a gin pole. It is lifted above the completed sections and then used to lift the next section.

When the TV station I worked at was putting up a 1500 foot tower I made sure to get a picture of the top section because that was the last time I was ever going to see it.

I made about 4 trips to the 135′ level of the studio tower. But that was back when I was middle-aged and foolish.

jbenson2 says:

Uncle Dave – that is a good find.

A few thoughts – I wonder:

- Do the workers get paid by the job or by the hour?

- How many times a year do they have to do this.

- Getting down looks more difficult than climbing up

The DON says:

Video was taken down

can still be found at http://youtube.com/watch?v=Dae7DdfJ1ts

[It seems to still be up, but I replaced the link with this Youtube version. - UD]

Very interesting – I would like to try it, but then I think that when actually faced with the shear scale of the height at the top of the elevator, I think I’d chicken out.

sargasso_c says:

A guy in engineering sent me that movie a couple of days ago, it gave me a blood nose just watching it.

Carl says:

Scaling a 1700 foot tower doesn’t seem all that difficult when you take an elevator to 1600 feet.

jescott418 says:

OK, I hate getting on my roof of my house. This is not a job for me.
Kudo’s to those who do. I wonder what they do if they forget something?

Special Ed says:

I’m not afraid of heights, but I am afraid of widths. Seriously, I was really uncomfortable watching this. I’m not ashamed to say but my asshole bit a hole through my BVDs.

RTaylor says:

When you rationalize it, any fall over a few floors would kill you anyway. You can’t hit the ground with a speed over terminal velocity. I still got sick looking at the video.

e? says:

Bugger that for a joke. Makes sitting in morning traffic seem reasonable in comparison