I first watched this several years back and have watched it probably a dozen times and yet I still turn into a sweaty mess. Not enough money in the world...
That is the secret to not falling. Their huge huevos keep them in perfect balance so they’re not getting yanked this way and that by the tower swaying a solid 15 feet or better in every direction when they get caught up in a high wind.
It amazes me how little fall protection they had. The tallest tower I had to climb as a radio tech was around 250', and the ladders had a steel cable running down the middle we clipped a fall arrestor to. It didn't slow us down at all except we had to pop the cable out of a little clip every 20' or so to let the arrestor through. And when off the ladder we had to maintain three points of contact with the tower at all times(usually two feet+lanyard). Free climbing it at +1300'? That's just insane.
I can't imagine even being 250 up Fook that shit mate lolol I used to be ok with jumping off like 30 foot cliffs into water, but even that now I'm like nahhhhh lol
It's because it's easier and you don't get as tired when you freeclimb and it also goes faster, even if you clip yourself to something it might brake or you might hit the metal anyway and die so the lines doesn't even matter at that point
I did this for 15 years working for a company in MD. I had to go through a 30 week training course before starting. Its definitely not for everyone, but I loved it.
@@steviejrr I started in 1993 at $22 an hour. When I retired in 2009, i was at $75.50 an hour, which is where this particular company capped you at. But there was always overtime if you wanted it at time and a half.
@@kirkevenson8757 ok good, by now it's gotta be pushing $100 base. I mean I still wouldn't do it but some of the salary numbers I've seen are ridiculously low.
@@austinyun That's true. I've seen salaries for this as low as $17 an hour to start. I worked for the same company my whole career, and was happy with the pay. I haven't kept up with the business, so I have no idea what they pay now.
Love your guys reaction simply one of the best to ever do it. “From here he’s got another 60ft to get to the top” the way you guys said “WHAT👀” killed me. Great reaction guys
I'm a bit disappointed in myself for exactly how many times I tightly scrunched my eyes closed AND looked away from this video. As if just closing my eyes calmly wouldn't do the trick. Holy hell... just NO!
I was thinking of that. There're films of the Empire State Bldg. being built in the '30s and guys just walking around on the girders w/o any safety equipment, or sitting down in the middle of the sky eating sandwiches and having a smoke. Some lunch break!
same and...consider there arent heavy guage wires running along the tower so he can be harnessed and carabinered to the line and then just have to do it every 20 ft or so in case of an actual fall. then the body carabiner could be used for rest and tight security. i dont get this at all...never would imagine osha letting a dude basically free solo towers. with or without hazard pay
I have a good friend who had this job. Pay was great but they were never home. They are constantly traveling the USA from job to job. Not to mention working in all weather conditions including freezing weather and high winds. Imagine being that high up trying to work with high winds.
Sitting in the pub near a window. Done with your climbing gig. Someone asks you what you did today. “See that tower? Free climbed to the top to change a lightbulb “. You wouldn’t pay for a pint or shot the rest of the night. And you shouldn’t have to!!!!!!!!
I always imagine that 2nd guy dropping the bulb at the top lol, but those guys who live for heights always amaze me, they aren’t bothered by anything and many want to get as high as humanly possible, they’re a diff breed for sure.
@@CrazyNikel i said the same thing, when i was younger i had no problem with heights, but it was like over night all of the sudden i can't be high up anymore
I used to not be afraid but after falling off of several ladders over the years and breaking a couple ribs from doing so I get shaky legs just from being on a 12 foot ladder.
Bruh I used to jump off like like 30 foot cliffs into I can't do it anymore, the gimp feet and balance has got to me and the fact I'm not 18 anymore, 27, but yeah just nahhhh mate I dknt like heights anymore for some reason
Haha, i actually do this for a living, but not to this height, so found this very interesting. It looks intimidating and scary, but it's really not as bad as it seems once you've done it a few times...
I would think someone could create a mechanism that opens the top, lifts and pops out the bulb, then fly a drone up to capture that and deliver a fresh one.
I've always thought I would be able to do something like this as I'm pretty good with heights and I would be confident in the fall arrest restraints but man after watching this theres no way I didn't realize they would be free climbing parts of it and geez it must be alot harder climbing down.
I saw a video like this and the narrator said the light bulb is changed once a year and the guy gets paid like $60,000 USD a year. With each year of my life, I get more and more dizzy with heights. I could never do this job.
You would think that base jumping would be the quickest and easiest way down, except their are guy wires all over the place which could cause a bit of a problem if your trying to get down with a parachute and the wind decides to take you on an adventure ride.
If it is not a windy day then theres not going to be much wind, there is also less wind during morning and evening, heat from the sun increases how windy it is, the big issue is how cold it get, if you stay up there too long your fingers, hands, arms, legs can become too cold making it hard to move and climb back down.
Daz is my favorite human ever, but does anybody else notice that he kinda looks like a pug? 3:30: if u don't know what I mean, go to this time stamp where he is looking towards the screen.
I'm sorry, but do the blokes' scrotums pucker and try to migrate into your abdomen when watching people at these heights? I find it particularly uncomfortable when someone unhooks a safety line even for a moment to reposition for the next stretch... Damn! No thanks. Let's not and say we did, all right? :O
Celebrities make millions of dollars just to show up on tv. Kim Kardashian makes that money just to be a waste of existence. If these people climbing these towers had a UA-cam channel at least, I would be glad to send some money their way because DAMN!
I should not have let the wife watch this video. This is what our son does for a living, though mostly builds them, not service them. If this isn't scary enough, building them is way, way worse. When building them they put bolt the different sections together as they go up, but, they don't tighten the bolts until the end of the assembly. My son said something about the way they plumb them up to make sure they are perfectly straight requires them to all be assembled before final tightening. He sends up photos and videos every so often just to scare the crap out of his mom I think. He was always terribly afraid of heights before this but the training they go through he said made him trust his equipment. They don't do any free-climbing (according to him at least) but man, that's still tough to do. He says it's rough to do on the body, but the view is so worth it. They get flown all over the country building the towers and loves the job. He works six weeks on and one week off. He has always been a bit of an adrenalin junky though. He was a combat Marine, then worked with me testing gas wells and oil wells, now this.
No offense but I couldn't finish this. I have a friend who was the office manager for a firm that performs these jobs. They lost 2 workers to fatal falls in her 3 years there. Interestingly, their biggest obstacle to keeping employees was not the danger, it was the failed drug tests. Mull that one over.
A better documentary is The Dawn Wall, about Tommy Caldwell, the first guy to climb it, and through that effort mapped it and made it possible for Honnold to climb it.
Never before have I wanted an individual to be finished with their job. Is he still climbing ? Jesus Christ, get that man a parachute and/or a more Improved tethering system.
Yeah with the different places they had to manuever around without the ladders or rungs, going down would be even more terrible. I would just live there forever immobile
There's a guy on Twitch named StephenIRL that has done this live on stream, going upwards of like 500 ft I believe with a shoulder or head mounted camera and his phone strapped to his wrist to interact with chat. He used to also livestream bounty hunting, out of Kansas City where crime is pretty bad. You have to be born different to do this kinda stuff...just watching his stream and watching him look down made me start to sweat lol.
I don't have a fear of heights outside of a HEALTHY fear of heights. Free climbing at this height? I wouldn't be able to bear the sensation of my testicles being in my throat.
Scariest only if you're afraid of heights. I don't understand why there isn't a safety line that follows the worker even if deaths are rare. I worked in the deadliest job in the US, Alaskan fisherman, and was injured twice in only two trips. I was told 1-8 career Alaskan fishermen die during work. More dangerous than my combat job in the US army for sure.
My man parts drew up into my body watching this. I couldn't imagine a night of partying, and having to go in hung over on this job. Dave, I wonder if they don't base jump, because they're too scared.
ive been doing rennovations for maybe 12 years now, and sometimes i gotto get ontop of roofs to fix windows on 2nd or third story houses... and even when im up there im nervous, not terribily but im def not comfortable, i could only imagine how scary it is doing this job.
I can't even imagine being the person driving the truck and waiting for them at the bottom watching let alone actually doing it. They have to be in incredible shape
Yea, I can confirm. My friend does this for a living and that's about what he makes. He loves it though. Some people just love the adrenaline of climbing. Not this guy though, fuck that is right.
Bill Burr is right, being a mom isn't the hardest job in the world.
What if the mom is a tower climber?
@@Ocaljr what if she is not?
@@LarryBonson Then she doesn't have the hardest job in the world.
@@Ocaljr Then she's a mom with the hardest job in the world, but it isn't the mom part.
Unless she has to climb 1700 ft on a tower to put in a DVD. Lift with your legs
I first watched this several years back and have watched it probably a dozen times and yet I still turn into a sweaty mess. Not enough money in the world...
Jeez me too. I was miserable. Once was enough
My biggest question is how the hell do the stay balanced up there with the giant pair of balls they have.
One massive ball either side of the pole I think!! Sounds familiar come to think of it 😂😂
That is the secret to not falling. Their huge huevos keep them in perfect balance so they’re not getting yanked this way and that by the tower swaying a solid 15 feet or better in every direction when they get caught up in a high wind.
That 30lbs tool bag is a counterbalance.
😂😂😂😂
Toolbag evens it out lol
This needs to be the next "Office Blokes Try" episode. 🤣
No chance 😭
Lol unfortunately that would probably be the last one too
You’re not wrong 🤣
@@officeblokemike7914 Mike!!!! Love you love seeing you here!! I laughed so hard when you said “don’t come here there’s not enough room” 🤣🤣🤣😭🙌❤️
@@WaterKingCrocodoan 😂much appreciated WKA 👊🏻
It amazes me how little fall protection they had. The tallest tower I had to climb as a radio tech was around 250', and the ladders had a steel cable running down the middle we clipped a fall arrestor to. It didn't slow us down at all except we had to pop the cable out of a little clip every 20' or so to let the arrestor through. And when off the ladder we had to maintain three points of contact with the tower at all times(usually two feet+lanyard). Free climbing it at +1300'? That's just insane.
I can't imagine even being 250 up
Fook that shit mate lolol
I used to be ok with jumping off like 30 foot cliffs into water, but even that now I'm like nahhhhh lol
The top of the tower was 1700ft not 1300.. But still crazy lol
It's because it's easier and you don't get as tired when you freeclimb and it also goes faster, even if you clip yourself to something it might brake or you might hit the metal anyway and die so the lines doesn't even matter at that point
It's all mental at that point. Above 70ft you're gonna die from any fall so there really is no difference other than wind.
I did this for 15 years working for a company in MD. I had to go through a 30 week training course before starting. Its definitely not for everyone, but I loved it.
I wouldn't mind it, how much is the pay? Must be insane right?
@@steviejrr I started in 1993 at $22 an hour. When I retired in 2009, i was at $75.50 an hour, which is where this particular company capped you at. But there was always overtime if you wanted it at time and a half.
@@kirkevenson8757 ok good, by now it's gotta be pushing $100 base. I mean I still wouldn't do it but some of the salary numbers I've seen are ridiculously low.
@@austinyun That's true. I've seen salaries for this as low as $17 an hour to start. I worked for the same company my whole career, and was happy with the pay. I haven't kept up with the business, so I have no idea what they pay now.
@@kirkevenson8757 base pay at my company is $50,000 a year. We also have a 100% tie off rule though, so no free climbing
Love your guys reaction simply one of the best to ever do it. “From here he’s got another 60ft to get to the top” the way you guys said “WHAT👀” killed me. Great reaction guys
I'm a bit disappointed in myself for exactly how many times I tightly scrunched my eyes closed AND looked away from this video. As if just closing my eyes calmly wouldn't do the trick. Holy hell... just NO!
The thing is, we know these guys are super-experienced. But think about the fact that there had to have been a first time for every one of these guys.
Nice. I didn’t think of that. Jeez this made me ill
You also have to remember the guys that had to build that Tower
If I'm not wrong, I think these guys earn about $60-70K per climb and only work a few days a year 🍻🍻🍻
Sign me up
Need to watch the old movies of the iron workers running around without safety equipment jumping from beam to beam.
I was thinking of that. There're films of the Empire State Bldg. being built in the '30s and guys just walking around on the girders w/o any safety equipment, or sitting down in the middle of the sky eating sandwiches and having a smoke. Some lunch break!
And getting paid like 2 cents an hour to do so. Crazy.
@@JKM395 hey that 2 cents was alot back then lolol
But nah they forsure got paid more, not like it would be today though with OSCA and everything lol
@@gimpyrules6714 That was a bit of hyperbole on my part. They certainly didn't get paid what they were worth.
@@JKM395 you're right about that
Also imagine how many were buzzed doing that shit, legends lolol
By law, anything sticking up even a fraction of that tower’s height has to have lights to let aircraft know it’s there at night!
Thank you captain obvious
"From here it's just another 60 feet to the top.." "WHAT"
I’m not necessarily scared of heights, but being totally outside that high up would scare the wholly hell out of me.
same and...consider there arent heavy guage wires running along the tower so he can be harnessed and carabinered to the line and then just have to do it every 20 ft or so in case of an actual fall. then the body carabiner could be used for rest and tight security. i dont get this at all...never would imagine osha letting a dude basically free solo towers. with or without hazard pay
100%. I have a fear of falling, not height. Zero problem flying. But I won't climb a 20ft ladder lol
Nothing in this world or any other could get me to even remotely try climbing this high.
This actually made me sick in my stomach watching lmao
I have a good friend who had this job. Pay was great but they were never home. They are constantly traveling the USA from job to job. Not to mention working in all weather conditions including freezing weather and high winds. Imagine being that high up trying to work with high winds.
Sitting in the pub near a window. Done with your climbing gig. Someone asks you what you did today. “See that tower? Free climbed to the top to change a lightbulb “. You wouldn’t pay for a pint or shot the rest of the night. And you shouldn’t have to!!!!!!!!
I always imagine that 2nd guy dropping the bulb at the top lol, but those guys who live for heights always amaze me, they aren’t bothered by anything and many want to get as high as humanly possible, they’re a diff breed for sure.
As someone with a crippling fear of being any higher than 50 feet, this video does not make me feel well 😂
Same dude... The older I get the more fear I have it seems. *Shit aint right* lol.
@@CrazyNikel i said the same thing, when i was younger i had no problem with heights, but it was like over night all of the sudden i can't be high up anymore
You cool with 40 feet?
I used to not be afraid but after falling off of several ladders over the years and breaking a couple ribs from doing so I get shaky legs just from being on a 12 foot ladder.
Bruh I used to jump off like like 30 foot cliffs into
I can't do it anymore, the gimp feet and balance has got to me and the fact I'm not 18 anymore, 27, but yeah just nahhhh mate I dknt like heights anymore for some reason
Oh those boys poor poor mothers🙏
I fully expected him to encounter a giant and a golden egg laying goose.
Wait what
@@freestylebeats4280 jack and the bean stalk
This is one of those jobs that are just ridiculously dangerous, and they require equally ridiculous people to do them.
this is my worst fear, I could not even watch this, i had a panic attack
To hell with that light bulb. 😳🤣
Haha, i actually do this for a living, but not to this height, so found this very interesting. It looks intimidating and scary, but it's really not as bad as it seems once you've done it a few times...
From what I can tell you guys make less than normal electricians. Why???
how do they even train you for this
I live an hour easy from the tallest radio tower in the world, North Dakota, and my knees get weak just looking at it
Big ol bag of “FUCK THAT” is what that is
I would think someone could create a mechanism that opens the top, lifts and pops out the bulb, then fly a drone up to capture that and deliver a fresh one.
How ... What.... I'm speechless. Wow!!!
react to something relating to Alex Honnold and free solo!!!!!!! for the love of god you will not be dissapointed
I've never been so happy that a video wasn't in HD.
I've always thought I would be able to do something like this as I'm pretty good with heights and I would be confident in the fall arrest restraints but man after watching this theres no way I didn't realize they would be free climbing parts of it and geez it must be alot harder climbing down.
I used to do that, work on cell towers.
Started at $22 an hour, wasn't enough to keep doing that shit.
I saw a video like this and the narrator said the light bulb is changed once a year and the guy gets paid like $60,000 USD a year.
With each year of my life, I get more and more dizzy with heights. I could never do this job.
You would think that base jumping would be the quickest and easiest way down, except their are guy wires all over the place which could cause a bit of a problem if your trying to get down with a parachute and the wind decides to take you on an adventure ride.
Those guys make so much money. Also there are guys who fix extra tall power lines, from being hung from a helicopter.
Butt pucker: The Movie. I'm not even scared of heights, but daaa-aaaaang.
That's one job you better get along with your co-worker really well or someone's gonna have a bad day.
Your absolute BEST FRIEND
My anxiety just went through the roof!! Those men’s balls have to be made out of kryptonite!
Just watching this is triggering my fear of heights...
"ey guys lets just do this without safety because itll be faster"
They're gonna be so happy when they discover that HELICOPTERS FUCKING EXIST!?
I wondered what video you were talking about the other day. 🤣
Just watching that gave me sweaty palms. Not enough money in the world
They are tied off but most times the fall protection is held from other people so they can be hands free
It's not just the tools he has to drag up, it's also massive balls of steel he has to carry.
That might be the most horrific thing I have ever seen.
I tried to watch this while pooping. He said this is a free climb. Now I cant poop.
Up is one thing, but going down tho, that is always the hardest part for any climb I ever did lol
Imagine the wind at that height!
If it is not a windy day then theres not going to be much wind, there is also less wind during morning and evening, heat from the sun increases how windy it is, the big issue is how cold it get, if you stay up there too long your fingers, hands, arms, legs can become too cold making it hard to move and climb back down.
I had to avert my eyes. I bet Bearing Sea crab boat workers wouldn’t do that.
"It's not the fall that would hurt you... It's that sudden stop at the end."
Daz is my favorite human ever, but does anybody else notice that he kinda looks like a pug? 3:30: if u don't know what I mean, go to this time stamp where he is looking towards the screen.
This looks easy compared to going back down!
check out this one-----Tim Conway Harvey Korman "Fire At Will" (the cannonball sketch)
I'm sorry, but do the blokes' scrotums pucker and try to migrate into your abdomen when watching people at these heights? I find it particularly uncomfortable when someone unhooks a safety line even for a moment to reposition for the next stretch... Damn! No thanks. Let's not and say we did, all right? :O
09:18 "Who the hell's this guy?"
"...Whew! Hi, I was wondering if you had a few minutes to talk about the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth?"
Celebrities make millions of dollars just to show up on tv. Kim Kardashian makes that money just to be a waste of existence. If these people climbing these towers had a UA-cam channel at least, I would be glad to send some money their way because DAMN!
going down would be 100x more scary and I wouldnt go up lmfao
Being a soldier in northern Ireland 60s 70s 80s and 90s
I should not have let the wife watch this video. This is what our son does for a living, though mostly builds them, not service them. If this isn't scary enough, building them is way, way worse. When building them they put bolt the different sections together as they go up, but, they don't tighten the bolts until the end of the assembly. My son said something about the way they plumb them up to make sure they are perfectly straight requires them to all be assembled before final tightening. He sends up photos and videos every so often just to scare the crap out of his mom I think. He was always terribly afraid of heights before this but the training they go through he said made him trust his equipment. They don't do any free-climbing (according to him at least) but man, that's still tough to do. He says it's rough to do on the body, but the view is so worth it. They get flown all over the country building the towers and loves the job. He works six weeks on and one week off. He has always been a bit of an adrenalin junky though. He was a combat Marine, then worked with me testing gas wells and oil wells, now this.
I did this work in my 20s for the military. I am now scared of heights. A 6ft ladder gives me the heebee geebees. 56 now.
That tower is in San Francisco. The winds coming in off the bay must be brutal.
No offense but I couldn't finish this.
I have a friend who was the office manager for a firm that performs these jobs. They lost 2 workers to fatal falls in her 3 years there. Interestingly, their biggest obstacle to keeping employees was not the danger, it was the failed drug tests. Mull that one over.
I could see daz on the tower screaming from the third step. Nope! You can keep your 120k a year.
My hands start sweating when I watch these videos. Definitely not the job for me!
I believe that clasp is a line to the tool bag.. it's not a safety line.. insane!
No thought to the fact that those pegs they are climbing are exposed to the weather and at some point will fail.
How many people does it take to change a lightbulb? I don't care, as long as it isn't me!
It gets pretty cold up that high, I reckon.
I know it's too long for the channel but you guys should watch Free Solo documentary about Alex Honnold climbing El Capitan without any safety gear
Honnold has ogre hands.
A better documentary is The Dawn Wall, about Tommy Caldwell, the first guy to climb it, and through that effort mapped it and made it possible for Honnold to climb it.
OSHA will fine companies for minuscule infractions but allow free climbing for tower workers? WTF!!!
This is office blokes best video
That moment when he was standing on the top and took both hands off to fiddle with the carabiner. Jesus Christ.
I'm 100% with Dave on this one. Parachute in case of emergency although surely there's got to be a safer way 😂
There is a safer way, it's called using not free-climbing.
Imagine if you are at the top and realize that you forgot a equipment.
This one made my palms so sweaty can't imagine
Nope. I’m getting the FEAR just watching it.
Never before have I wanted an individual to be finished with their job.
Is he still climbing ?
Jesus Christ, get that man a parachute and/or a more Improved tethering system.
New subscriber here enjoying the videos guys
Climbing down would be the hard part
Yeah with the different places they had to manuever around without the ladders or rungs, going down would be even more terrible. I would just live there forever immobile
They get paid very well as many people dont have it in them to do that job.
There's a guy on Twitch named StephenIRL that has done this live on stream, going upwards of like 500 ft I believe with a shoulder or head mounted camera and his phone strapped to his wrist to interact with chat. He used to also livestream bounty hunting, out of Kansas City where crime is pretty bad. You have to be born different to do this kinda stuff...just watching his stream and watching him look down made me start to sweat lol.
I don't have a fear of heights outside of a HEALTHY fear of heights. Free climbing at this height? I wouldn't be able to bear the sensation of my testicles being in my throat.
Scariest only if you're afraid of heights. I don't understand why there isn't a safety line that follows the worker even if deaths are rare. I worked in the deadliest job in the US, Alaskan fisherman, and was injured twice in only two trips. I was told 1-8 career Alaskan fishermen die during work. More dangerous than my combat job in the US army for sure.
yall probably already have it on the list but wed really love it if you could do country boy can survive by hank williams jr
They should fit these guys with parachutes
9:25-9:30 funniest shit Lol
My man parts drew up into my body watching this. I couldn't imagine a night of partying, and having to go in hung over on this job.
Dave, I wonder if they don't base jump, because they're too scared.
Balls of steel, i wonder if they have a parachute on their back.. Just in case
Maximum pucker factor
They should use the command /fly
ive been doing rennovations for maybe 12 years now, and sometimes i gotto get ontop of roofs to fix windows on 2nd or third story houses... and even when im up there im nervous, not terribily but im def not comfortable, i could only imagine how scary it is doing this job.
I can't even imagine being the person driving the truck and waiting for them at the bottom watching let alone actually doing it. They have to be in incredible shape
Ryan Newman HARD Crash and Flip 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Talladega
my hands are still sweating..
Google tells me these guys make an average of around $50,000 USD a year
Fuck that.
Yea, I can confirm. My friend does this for a living and that's about what he makes. He loves it though. Some people just love the adrenaline of climbing. Not this guy though, fuck that is right.
"We packed the imperial tool box. These fixtures are metric!" 😫
🤣😂🤣🤣
Alex Honnold - this must be fun for a warm up!