my workday gave me nightmares..scared of heights?pics

nice shots man I would love to get up there and take some shots. Awesome job you have there

 

damn that would be a bad ass job! Right up my alley!

 

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but thanks for the pics!

 

So, like, what happens if you DO slip?

 

I'd be too tempted to drop a loogie on a car.

 

you would get effed up a tad.

the cable is broken into sections. each about 20 feet long. if you fell at the end of one, you would slide the full 20 feet until you hit the next stanchion. it would hurt. the real crappy thing, you would need to wait until search and rescue came and got you. our harnesses tie on the back, you cannot pull yourself up. 45 mins is about the max until a blood clot forms in the leg from the harness cutting off circulation. you seriously do not want to fall. with some extra cord, you could form a step to take weight off the harness to last much longer than the 45 mins.

 

Awesome, I'd love top do that. Drove on that bridge twice yesterday.

 

that would be awesome! i would do that in a heartbeat!

 

There are climbing lines that have sewn "fall" sections. It's sewn in a manner that if you do slip and fall there are sections that are designed to tear slow your fall significantly so you won't get jerked so bad and get whiplash.

 

Diggin this shit heeya! Get to go offroad to the job site and then do this? Please hire me!.........and yes, the cooking show that Giada is on is the only one that I'll watch with the wife. +2 on the droolin over her! Don't remember anything she cooked but I know I'm ready to eat, lol.

 

your pants turn brown. ... and depending on what you had for lunch that day, cars below you may have a new paint job.

 

Whoa. Even with all the safety tie-off's, I would still never do it...

Sweaty hands just looking at the photos.

 

Somebody has to do it.... thank god its not me!!!

 

On the work comp right now but just reminds me of this video


http://deskofbrian.com/2010/09/man-free-climbing-1768-ft-transmission-tower-video/

 

Without even knowing you I knew that's what you did for a living. weird.

What mountain is that?

 

On our harnesses we have trauma straps. They are little pouches with straps to step in, so if you fall you just pull them out and step into the loop and you can alternate between standing and sitting.
http://dbi-sala-safety.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=3&products_id=216

I drive lots of highway miles but also off-road every day, although 20mph speed limit on our turbine roads
It's more fun early on when don't have the roads built yet lots of wildlife still around too. On my current job there are some steep areas where we couldn't trench in underground cable and had to run overhead line. Some nice hillclimbs checking on those!

Oh yeah? How's that?
This is Hatchet Ridge in Northern California, which we built last year. It's not far from Redding, near a small town called Burney.

 

those are great pics man but i have to say better you than me. now if yall will excuse me i need to go change my drawers......lol

 

Just looking at those pics gives me that feeling of terror.

Awesome Pics though...You are insane.

 

So you looking for Civil engineer interns for next summer?

 

Oh I thought it was here in WA. Kinda looks like the tucannon area but without the mountain.