I climbed towers for a year I slipped once lucky I had my harness locked on. I quit as soon as my feet hit the ground no matter how well I got paid my life is more important than money

@Juandinggong

3 жыл бұрын

Idk man how you did it. It’s just too dangerous and what is the pay looks like for tower workers asking that because I always wondered that what sum of money would make one wanna climb towers.

@octocreepy

3 жыл бұрын

"The sky more than the sea is terribly unforgiving of even the slightest mistake" Airborne Infantry

@nicodemuswhodak536

3 жыл бұрын

gravity kills - Isaac newton

@DjAether8

3 жыл бұрын

Dont believe climbing these towers pay you more than a technician climbing 20-30 ft high telephone poles.

@BobbyB910

3 жыл бұрын

@@Juandinggong I made 55/hr for any tower under 1000 over 1k was 60/hr

In the late 1970's I use to paint microwave tower's, ( tv/radio), international orange and white, and also high voltage towers and substation steel while energized. Microwave tower's are built to sway quite a bit. I'm sorry for the family's loss.

@shawnshurtz9147

2 жыл бұрын

No no they don't sway at all. They twist a bit but zero sway.

@borntoclimb7116

2 жыл бұрын

@@shawnshurtz9147 guyed towers don't sway hard but freestanding tall towers are sway in strong wind. in germany we have a lot of guyed and freestanding towers, im climbing since 17 years on some of those towers

@rocknraptor3195

Жыл бұрын

@@shawnshurtz9147 bro they move! Call it what you want. You can see one move from the ground in strong wind.

@shawnshurtz9147

Жыл бұрын

@rockn raptor no you can't at all. Really, it's a little twist, and that's it. You can't even hardly see it with a transit when we're plumbing them. My brothers dead because one moved. My former employer as well. Look up kduh Tower Collapse. I've been on all the biggest towers in the country. Guyed towers for all intents and purposes don't move. Free standing, do a bit.

@redsquirrelftw

Жыл бұрын

@@rocknraptor3195 Guyed ones should not move, if they did, it would mean it's basically stretching the cables or even pulling them out of the ground. Interestingly I have seen the guy wires themselves bounce a little under tension in super high winds but tower itself does not move at all. I actually have a video of that where I zoomed right into a tower during a wind storm. I was curious myself to see if it had any sway to it.

My deepest condolences to the family. This is my dream job, and I have nothing but respect for the people that risk their lives for the improvement of technology.

@wingsfan63

Жыл бұрын

Climb wind turbines. 🤟

@WorldWrestlingFoundation

Жыл бұрын

Shouldn’t be a hard job to get. The people who want it are pretty few: you should be one of the guys who changed light bulbs on a tower, the taller the tower the better the pay. Could be 10,000 to 100,000 in one day.

@apersonyoudontknow3346

Жыл бұрын

It’s a easy job and fast openings lol

@zayylewi9832

Жыл бұрын

Yeah this is my file of work, shits no joke. Why we're always told no matter how many years you do this job, never get to comfortable! ALWAYS pay ATTENTION!!

@samwyatt5285

Жыл бұрын

@@apersonyoudontknow3346 O_O

Rest in peace to that gentleman

Thats more than 1/4 mile up. Those men have balls of steel. Very sorry to hear of life lost.

@broman7271

2 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah they remind me of the roughnecks from the 30s

@borntoclimb7116

2 жыл бұрын

@@broman7271 in india million workers work without protection on different jobs and many thousand workers died per year

@AMediumSizedKodiak

Жыл бұрын

@@borntoclimb7116 are… are you bragging about that statistic?

@zmethod7294

Жыл бұрын

@@AMediumSizedKodiak no he is just saying that media is more active here in America and sometimes jobs and events get more coverage and hype then they deserve. A lot of tragedies go uncovered in many other countries because they are not so money hungry and need to cover every little tragedy or event. He is also just mentioning the fact that people like this ( the ones that climb towers and risk their lives ect ect) are very very common in other less fortunate places in our world. There are even places where kids die in mines digging for sulfur or whatever it may be. Media never talks about it for some reason. Why is it not being addressed? You literally have to search and dig for it on the internet for it to come up.

@youthofmc

Жыл бұрын

Wdym thats 1/4 a mile up its 2000ft?

Came here after watching The Fall

@Realaylamarie

Жыл бұрын

Same 😢

@thefuturepresident2597

Жыл бұрын

@@Realaylamarie me too

@misterclownface

Жыл бұрын

What is "The Fall"? It's too common a name to look up. I get shows including a documentary that doesn't have anything to do with tower climbing.

@nareyakireina

Жыл бұрын

@@misterclownface Take out the "The". It should just be 'Fall'. Not sure why they said 'The Fall'....

@ABOULBARAHEM

2 ай бұрын

Same 😮

Whatever the reason, how heartbreaking. Prayers for his family. 🙏

Who else ended up here because of "Fall"?

@cranbrookchessclub

Жыл бұрын

meee

@Ashtondaboi918

10 ай бұрын

yep

@apiix9519

2 ай бұрын

Same here

@iheartmotorbikes574

14 күн бұрын

Meee

Prayers to his family. Glad the other 2 were ok.

There's not enough $$$$ in the universe to make me climb those towers!!! Condolences to all involved!!!

@alphacentauri7381

2 жыл бұрын

No-one purposed you $$$ just enjoy your soft sofa on the ground

@1594simonsays

2 жыл бұрын

@@alphacentauri7381 what?

My deepest condolences to his family, so sorry this happened....

@Dogappel

2 жыл бұрын

why t f u sorry. you didn't do anything!

@anderlexcellente403

Жыл бұрын

@@Dogappel "Sorry" is also a word used to express sympathy, not just guilt. It's actually the first definition that came up for me when searching.

@Vertical-sandwiches

Жыл бұрын

Doubt they will be reading this!! idiot.

@Acrocrystalis

Жыл бұрын

@@Dogappel there’s always someone like you

@user-gc3jc1kx7c

10 ай бұрын

Bro he got bounced

I get scared of just getting up on the 12 foot roof of my house imagine 1700 feet, these workers should be getting paid 100 dollars an hour for doing this kind of work

@s209_3

3 жыл бұрын

Firefighters don’t even get paid that much

@thesisypheanjournal1271

3 жыл бұрын

Waiting for feminists to complain about the workplace death gap, where a woman has to work 13 times longer to die on the job than a man.

@normfreilinger5655

3 жыл бұрын

The get more than that

@bilalsimstyler2396

3 жыл бұрын

@@thesisypheanjournal1271 Women climb towers too what's your point?

@borntoclimb7116

3 жыл бұрын

@@bilalsimstyler2396 thats right, climbers work hard to but the feminists ignore the true problems and create their own problems.

This is the tower that inspired the movie The Fall. Just goes to show how dangerous it is even for professionals.

@TEM1

7 ай бұрын

No it wasn’t.

Reminds me of the movie Fall : tower b67

@mientjexxxxx

Жыл бұрын

It's actually the same tower and that's actually terrible

@nareyakireina

Жыл бұрын

@@mientjexxxxx It actually is not. The B67 tower was based off of the KXTV/KOVR Tower in California. The movie is not based off of real life events.

I'm work on cell towers all over the east coast. Many times I have to travel to a tower where maybe just the bulb went out or the T-31 light cell is faulty and it needs to be switched out. You've noticed during the day the light flashes white and at night its red. When the sun goes down the light cell will trigger and a red lens will move up around the bulb changing the light to red. Better believe if somebody lives near a tower and the sensor has gone out they will call you because the white light at night is pretty bright in many places and they will call up saying its lighting up their whole house and can't sleep. Haha...yes we get those calls and tbh it would get annoying. Ive had a few diff scares over the yrs. I'll nvr forgot the scariest. I was climbing a tower in Kentucky and it had been hit by lightning. I had to go up to change out some components and when I got over halfway up (approx 320 feet) the foot hold snapped off and I fell. It scared the hell outta me of course but I knew my safety would catch. Well it caught but the spot where I had anchored snapped as well. I started falling again. Thats when I knew that was it for me. I fell another 20 - 30 feet when all of a sudden I stopped and it was one hell of a jerk. Turns out my safety rope somehow looped itself and then got wedged in one of the cross sections of the steel supports. From there I was able to secure myself again. I had so much adrenalin going that I didn't even realize I had broken 2 fingers. Even while using the hand I didnt feel it. Luckily it was very cold that day so that helped but when the adrenalin wore off...I felt it then. I was a high rise window cleaner also before I started working on cell towers and I had a big scare there too. I've had 2 of the 5 most dangerous jobs in my life.

@rohan6502

Жыл бұрын

Damn you should write a book haha I could listen to these stories for hours

I saw a video of one of these collapsing killing about 4 or 5 workers. Dangerous job. So sad.

Prayers going out to all involved I used to work those

Clip on Before Clip off! Sometimes when you're doing it thousands and thousands of times a day it's easy to make one mistake especially if your mind is wandering.

The KTVO 2000 ft. tower collapsed in the mid 1900's when workers were making adjustments at the 500 ft. level ! The impact drove the workers 15 ft. Into the ground !

@MUSICMATRIX2011

2 жыл бұрын

Wow

@mikejones9961

2 жыл бұрын

baloney

@GregAkers

2 жыл бұрын

@@mikejones9961You should have looked it up...before you showed your ignorance !

@mikejones9961

2 жыл бұрын

@@GregAkers you should provide a link, stupid

@sweettina2

2 жыл бұрын

@@mikejones9961 Why do people like you think that when someone makes a comment it should come complete with everything you want to know? Try doing your own homework! If you want to challenge someone based on what you think, you better do your own homework. Probably a lazy dumbed down millinial. smh

Imagine being the other workers watching him fall to his death...

Prayers Go Out For the Families Involved. 🙏

Lord I pray that you comfort this family & these friends during this tragic loss. Condolences to this family.

@stevenlawson9460

3 жыл бұрын

Amen

No one should die for their job, that poor guy and his family have needlessly lost a loved one, tragic news for all who knew him.

@sammyday3341

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe he enjoyed his work. Many tower techs do.

@dewmontain123

Жыл бұрын

Someone has to do it.

@calgar42k

Жыл бұрын

Well you love your TV and radio if you want those men have to climb...

Rescuing someone from this height is a mighty tall order.

@slappybassflipflapflippity6955

2 жыл бұрын

It was the height of the firemen's career.

Man dies at work. Men risk it all for family.

Omg real fall moves

@cranbrookchessclub

Жыл бұрын

fax

I'm so sorry to his loved ones. Absolutely devastating

Is this the incident that inspired fall

@JermaIncr

Жыл бұрын

Yea

@nareyakireina

Жыл бұрын

No it isn't based off of real life events. They thought of the idea for the movie while they were filming 'Final Score' (starring Dave Bautista). They got inspiration from the documentary 'Free Solo'.

@nareyakireina

Жыл бұрын

@@JermaIncr No it's not.

And just think, they can’t even use a helicopter.

And this is how the movie ‘Fall’ was made.

@Ashtondaboi918

10 ай бұрын

it happend after the movie so maybe some sorta curse

Heart breakering but uhh he’s hunter from fall 🙂

@Ashtondaboi918

10 ай бұрын

it happened after the movie was made

Tower rescue classes are very important. There's ways of strapping people to you and securely lower them down.

Years ago we had an ice storm come through, more intense than what we usually get. The local TV station had three towers east of town, two for TV and one for the radio station. The towers were stabilized by huge thick cables attached to large concrete bases buried deep in the ground. The cables and the towers became covered with a thick layer of ice which caused the cables to sag a bit. The next morning as the sun rose the cables on the east side began to thaw and lose the ice as did the tower, this caused the tower to be pulled to the west and set up an oscillation. The swaying stretched the cables to the point of failing and the tower came crashing down heavily damaging the transmitter building, fortunately no one was injured.

Prayers for his family.

A very dangerous way to make $15 an hour. No, I'm not kidding - Iv'e worked with multiple "tower companies" that started climbers at $15 an hour, $12 an hour if not experienced. Personally, I'd tell them to go to hell for anything under $50 an hour.

@ShainAndrews

2 жыл бұрын

Lacks context.

@tihspidtherekciltilc5469

2 жыл бұрын

Bullshit.

@renland2934

2 жыл бұрын

They pay like 30,000$ per climb lol

@patricks.7951

Жыл бұрын

@@renland2934 that's a damn lie, just go on indeed and look tower climbing jobs, they all pay like $15-$30 per hour

@NihongoGuy

10 ай бұрын

@@renland2934 My invoices are for between $1800 and $2400 for a one day visit with a three man tower crew. I have a choice of two contractors in that price range -matters not what work I have for them, price is the same and its not $30,000. 40 years in LMR here, how many tower crew invoices have you approved?

Few things are more dangerous than television.

@sweettina2

2 жыл бұрын

On so many levels.

@user-dd1bb4tw4r

2 жыл бұрын

Driving on the highway being one of them

"could have been even worse" I'm sure the family of the man who died doesn't think so.

God Bless that persons family in this terrible time ! Our sincere condolences to each of you ! Our prayers are with you !

prayers to the family indeed......

Its very related zu fall in 2022 the movie fall. Wow i'm sorry for the loss, rest in peace

Terrible loss. Very tragic but at least the family will be taken care of for his work.

I saw a guy fall to his death a hundred feet up on one of these towers. I will never forget that scream and sight from him as he was falling. 🙏🙏✝️✝️

Why is this basically the movie "fall"

@edsddsdsds4719

Жыл бұрын

@@ameliesantoro everybody gangsta till someone falls 2000 feet

@cranbrookchessclub

Жыл бұрын

@@edsddsdsds4719 bruh

That looks exactly like the tower from the movies fall

My prayers to the family.

@odacizdnak1136

Жыл бұрын

Did you really pray for them

OSHA is going to be all over this one, and should be. Safety is the first priority.

@frostyjim2633

2 жыл бұрын

OSHA will write a ticket if the guy didn't get the jab

They can pay me to go as high as possible working on these towers as long as I can keep one foot on the ground!

This is a few miles east of Mobile Alabama

Fall film

So In my home state (Mississippi) (I know we’re horrible I wish we were better) over in Raymond there was a 2000 ft transmit tower that fell with workers on it So yeah all 3 workers died. If you wanna know the tower name it’s called WLBT-TV tower

Somehow calling him a contractor right off the bat seems to make it feel less bad... Let's just call him a tower technician

Which state or city? Didn't mention.

@BethanyJoyWilson

3 жыл бұрын

Baldwin County, Robertsdale, AL

@mikewoodson6930

3 жыл бұрын

This may very well be in the South Central part of the State of Alabama. They mentioned Escambia County. Like you I’m not sure.

@Medicbobs

3 жыл бұрын

Loxley, AL over there close to Mobile.

@spqa2004

3 жыл бұрын

Loxley in Baldwin County, Alabama - The lady mentioned Baldwin County at 00:05. Then when they showed the reporter who is/was at the scene, the title below his window was "Robertsdale", which is likely the city. I searched for "Fox10 Robertsdale Baldwin County" and i found the Fox10 website. On the front page, there was an article about this incident but the opening line mentioned "Loxley, Alabama".

@DaughteroftheKing4ever

3 жыл бұрын

Loxley and Robertsdale are very close to each other. I am from Loxley. It could have been right on the line in between.

Praying for his family 🙏

My brother died on a tower collapse. KDUH Hemmingsford mast Nebraska. 2k foot tower.

Anyone else get sent to this video after watching someone climb a giant ass tower

What type of equipment? Why were the men not secured as protocol. Is this experimental equipment? Answers please?

@Sodiumreactor

3 жыл бұрын

They could have been "secured as protocol" and still fell a short distance and hit their head on a hard part of that tower. No it is not experimental. This is a dangerous job. People die, even when they follow regulations. This is why construction workers get paid so well.

So sad I pray for their family I hope their friends and family come together cuz they're all going to need comfort

Sad , prayers for his family.

Damn, that is just awful. Poor guy trying to make a living, goes to work and doesn't come back

Fall

I'm always scared for the workers that have to do jobs way up in the sky

i use to put them up when i was young. there is a % of death and injury . like high steal and well its a thing that is on your mind. my last job was for a cable corp. and i was older then most new techs .my boss asked me why getting up on a 28 ft ladder did not bother me at all. i replied i can jump that far .

He did not have his arresting safety gear on! That is a major safety violation!

I would have to wear my parachute if I was going that high!

@dhyde9207

3 жыл бұрын

So would I. Maybe someone who knows can tell us why they don't. At that point, you're basically a base jumper.

@trex2092

3 жыл бұрын

@@dhyde9207 This is a guyed tower, think cables to get all hung up in and collapse the chute.

@borntoclimb7116

3 жыл бұрын

@@trex2092 The BASE Jump from this towers is possible but its to dangerous in a uncontrolled situation close to the guywires jumping.

RIP brother....

A smart Chief looking out for his brothers in a difficult rescue 👍👍

Could have been worse...seriously I get that more people could have died, but for the family that lost their loved one, I don't think it gets any worse.

Don’t know about tower workers but sitting or standing on the rails on a scissor lift is a big no. From the vid two guys are not standing on the platform.

If u wanna get that high just smoke weed...

is it movie fall?

@nareyakireina

Жыл бұрын

No

Seriously ....it could have been worse????? What is worse than DEATH???? Think before you talk man.

Good friend of mine fell 220 feet to his death. Sadly

Hopefully whoever he worked for will do the right thing by his family.. 94% of all job related deaths are men. : (

The thing people don't figure on in working that high up is the wind factor

The safety is not well. They must have a cable attached to the top which holds the climber permanently from the beginning.

@Talkingaboutfeetpersecond

2 жыл бұрын

If you fall a distance and hit your head or vital body parts that's not gonna save you.

It’s a high risk high reward job ! Terrible that he died !! Had to make a mistake not following safety protocols! Most of these guys are very good!

@douglasskaalrud6865

2 жыл бұрын

You don’t know what this person did or didn’t do! There may have been something that happened we don’t know about! Maybe God decided it was their time to come home! Maybe the safety equipment broke! It could have been anything!

@JS-zb1vv

2 жыл бұрын

@@douglasskaalrud6865 he either made a mistake or died of a medical problem!! That’s only 2 things that can happen!! Geez

@conxoraddonahue9956

2 жыл бұрын

Could have been windy bro

@JS-zb1vv

2 жыл бұрын

@@conxoraddonahue9956 absolutely could have!! But even so. He wasn’t attached to his safety rope ! So he either made a mistake or had a medical issue! These guys are very good at rope work!! I’ve trained with lots of them!! A bunch die every year !!

*FALL INTENSIFIES*

That just sucks he had like 30 seconds before he died from falling 😢

The guy died but it could have been worse?

@ShainAndrews

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah... like causing enough damage on the way down to compromise the antenna taking everybody and the antenna out.

Untrained. Uneducated. OSHA WILL HANDLE THIS

Anybody else see that commercial for Emirates Airlines with a flight attendant on top of the spire of the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, while a 747 flys by behind her? (Telephoto lens.)

@Ashe1827

2 жыл бұрын

AirBus A380-800 (Emirates)

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but was that the workers body on the tower when they reached close to the top?

@kevinsellsit5584

2 ай бұрын

At 0:52 I believe you are correct.

He lost his life but it could have been much worse……..isn’t death the worst?

could have been worse geez!?

Unbelievably vauge reporting.

I read that this kxtv/kovr Tower inspired the movie Fall (that was released in theatres 2022). I bet this incident also did...

2020 sigh..

That's so sad!

No one could pay me enough to change a lightbulb on top of a tower.

Here to tell you that the firefighters most likely did the least compared to coworkers of the deceased. No man left behind is the unsaid truth among us.

God bless everyone. So sorry

It’s despicable how the movie FALL was based off of this tragedy…. Shame on those movie producers

@iamacockroach6218

Жыл бұрын

it was NOT

@nareyakireina

Жыл бұрын

Where did you get your information? Fall was not based off of real life events...shame on you for spreading lies and misinformation. The producers got the idea while filming a different movie and they drew inspiration from a documentary called 'Free Solo'.

Bro wth found this on someone's Playlist called "Songs to sample"

Did this guy just say that they had a call to 911 where someone reported seeing a man falling from the tower.... and they said that's not true he had a harness and fell a certain distance and died..... like thats a different thing

The trash television is showing today it’s not surprising that it’s killing all who watch it and sadly those who have the dangerous job of keeping it running and ruining lives

Damn! Bless his heart

What voltages are these towers supplying to the load at the top?

@dsmreloader7552

2 жыл бұрын

Typically none. The RF voltage/current is inside the coaxial cable so not accessible to the workers with the outside of the coax at ground potential. RF energy coming off of the antennas is a risk so shutdowns are normal during any work near the antenna itself. AM towers however are "hot" and typically shutdown altogether when work is being done on the tower.

They are pretty guarded about where this happened.

God Bless the family

🙏 for his family and friends. OSHA doesn't need to be involved. I'm sure the company knows how this happened.