Lol the ol dog bone 🤣....always gotta keep one of those on deck. A dog bone..two pairs of Chanel locks and 1 pair of babies and there's nothing almost nothing u can't do on the tower. Sick video man. The view near the end is awesome. It looks like Arizona.

Absolutely loved the video! I want to do tower work myself what certificates do I need to get started.

@4wdAdventure

Жыл бұрын

Thank you mate A Dogmans/ Basic Rigger’s ticket is a good place to start along with Work Safely at Heights - tower work is more industry based such as telecommunications and most of the training is job specific and you learn from others in your company if you can get a job. That’s in Australia anyway. Cheers

Awesome vid mate...

@4wdAdventure

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers mate!

Awesome vid. I'm thinking of applying for a telecom rigger traineeship in Sydney. Is there regular or plenty of work available once qualified or is it more like sporadic contracts you have to find yourself all over the country? Are you paid for travel to all these sites? Have you ever slipped or fell in the harness? I don't think I'm afraid of heights but i've never been 100m in the air so it's hard to guess haha

@4wdAdventure

8 ай бұрын

Hey mate great questions! I paid for a few of my tickets myself to get a foot in the door with a telecommunications rigging company, but once I was employed all of my training was covered. I didn’t do a traineeship, if you can go out and do your Dogman and Basic rigging ticket (pay yourself) then just start applying for rigging jobs, tell them you’re new and willing to learn; hopefully they’ll put you with a crew without having to do a traineeship because you’ll get paid way less and probably learn the same amount. So much work out there for private microwave links or mobile phone tower work. I started as a casual, and then landed a permanent full time job after about a year. Yes I travel to all my jobs in work time (paid to travel) including flying or driving. All expenses are paid with a daily ‘living away from home allowance’ to cover food and accommodation. I’ve never fallen, but yeah sure I’ve probably slipped a few times when it’s wet, but you have to be aware of your surroundings when you get up to height, it becomes second nature after a while. I’m not afraid of heights, but it has its moments, when it’s windy as hell, or the tower is thin and moves a lot it can feel sketchy, but you are employed to do a job, it just so happens the job is at a certain height; so once you get the climbing out of the way, you’re really just doing a normal job at height and you just focus on your task if that makes sense!

Love the video and jealous you can still use carabiners for rigging....no more in USA of that

@4wdAdventure

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers mate! 99% of the time we use shackles, but wasn’t going to be me climbing down to grab one on the large dish drop haha so the 50kN Kong carabiner got call up, plus since we used the chain block to lower the load onto the haul rope there wasn’t any shock on it, just a static load.

@rogadog77

5 жыл бұрын

@@4wdAdventure I hear you on that! They just straight outlawed them for use on sites per tower owners over here....

@kaseypharr5433

3 жыл бұрын

@@rogadog77 in our com train class they talked of a kid who was 23 who was killed in Charlotte NC because the ow er of the company rigged the tower with a carabiner...the thing snapped due to lack of inspection and also weight. Is snapped the carabiner and decapitated the kid....we aren't supposed to use them for that but like u said..with just a static load u will be fine. We do it too..Just gotta know what your doing and pay attention.

@rogadog77

3 жыл бұрын

@@kaseypharr5433 I was called to retrieve a body in Kentucky due to same circumstance 7 years ago they were using a double drum wench and it went bad....

@kaseypharr5433

3 жыл бұрын

@@rogadog77 smh. I hate u had to go through that man. Ive been in the industry for about two years and I've been lucky enough not to witness any deaths but I've seen some close calls..and one bad freak accident..and I do mean bad. I had a guide wire tower snap in half due to unforseen 60mph wind gust..had 3 guys on the tower..the rope trapped one of them on the tower and the rope went wrappwd around the crane as well..it was nasty man..luckily no one was hurt..but still. I think that tower was built in the 50's..the metal on the tower when snapped looked like fools gold it was so rusted...smh..but 9.5/10 its operator error..but shit does happen.

Hii bro

Hey mate love your videos. Currently waiting to land a job with a telco company. I just wanted to ask you if you are still in the industry and if so, do you still enjoy it?. Lastly is there room for growth and potential to earn higher income. I’m starting as a trainee rigger. Keep up the good worth mate 👍

@4wdAdventure

Жыл бұрын

Hey mate - Go for it! Hope you’re enjoying it so far. It’s a very competitive industry but with the right attitude and if you’re keen to learn there’s room for growth as a supervisor and then manager, or you can move into project management, the telco industry is pretty specialized so it’s also good to get experience on other crane/ construction jobs as a rigger. Telco is a very cool, but very small part of the rigging industry! Sorry for the late reply!