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 90rock
  
Location: Calgary
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 120 on 6/24/2009 3:30 PM >
|  | | | Downright unbelievable. I'm not afraid of heights, so I wouldn't chicken out very easily. Although it looks a little dangerous, I'll see if I can try a few towers wherever I am.
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jbtxk
Location: pnw
Gender: Male
there's always another way
| | Re: Climbing Radio Towers?
<Reply # 121 on 6/24/2009 6:20 PM >
| | | | Posted by TheVicariousVadder
I have noticed if it's marked with the FCC's obstruction marking paint "aviation orange and white" there is a reasonable certainty it has a physical ladder. If it is left unpainted there is a good chance (though not guaranteed) it will have the "bolt rung" ladders.[/sub]
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you might be on to something, there... the one on the left has a great ladder, but the one on the right has a crappy bolt-rung type.
not like it matters in this case, since there's two infinitely more awesome towers within a hundred feet  for perspective, this is where i'm sitting in the first picture.
sorry about the crappy pictures, i'm not much a photographer
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Location: DunkarooLand
Gender: Male
I'm the worst of the best but I'm in this race.
| |  | Re: Climbing Radio Towers?
<Reply # 122 on 6/25/2009 3:49 AM >
| | | | There is a really cheap way to make "lattice towers" and that's by using 3 (or occasionally, 4) steel monopoles and connecting them together. There is a limit to how high the monopoles can be in relation to stability. The structural limit usually falls below FCC guidelines, I don't know the exact guidelines but I think it's somewhere around 250 feet or taller; require the paint. That makes the most sense to me.
Another thing I've found is you can't (safely) climb to the very top of a lot of the cellular towers in my area. I have seen signs posted "Above 205 Feet RF Exposure is above safe working levels. Within 6 feet of each transmitter, RF Exposure is above safe working levels."
"No risk, no reward, no fun."
"Go all the way or walk away"
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BravoOrig
Location: Iowa
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Climbing Radio Towers?
<Reply # 123 on 6/26/2009 6:56 AM >
| | | | This maybe considered somewhat off-topic, but does anyone remember seeing a movie about two brothers who climb a radio tower? They were children and its a fictional work that is set in the 50s or so. Note that I am not thinking of Kindegarten Cop!
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SaraBellum
    
Berkshire Hunt
Location: Villa Villekulla
Gender: Female
Coming to a cinema near you this summer.
| |  | Re: Climbing Radio Towers?
<Reply # 124 on 6/26/2009 6:58 AM >
| | | | Posted by BravoOrig
This maybe considered somewhat off-topic, but does anyone remember seeing a movie about two brothers who climb a radio tower? They were children and its a fictional work that is set in the 50s or so. Note that I am not thinking of Kindegarten Cop!
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What's Eating Gilbert Grape? Or was that a water tower? I can't remember.
[01:47:56] <GreyDeath> Sara just stares her enemies into submission and eventually madness
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mesomewierdo
| | Re: Climbing Radio Towers?
<Reply # 125 on 6/27/2009 12:16 PM >
| | | | Posted by TheVicariousVadder
I have noticed if it's marked with the FCC's obstruction marking paint "aviation orange and white" there is a reasonable certainty it has a physical ladder. If it is left unpainted there is a good chance (though not guaranteed) it will have the "bolt rung" ladders.
http://i214.photob...ver/monopole-a.jpg
*Smaller not to be taken literally (small enough to escape the FCC Obstruction Marking Codes.); they can still be huge!
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You hit the nail on the head! If someone needs to regularly climb to change the strobes/ light bulbs, they need a safer way of doing that.
Also you can have other towers real close that are "covered" by the tallest one's obstruction lighting, sometimes.
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mello
Location: Port Colborne
Gender: Female
tastes like chicken.
| | | Re: Climbing Radio Towers?
<Reply # 126 on 6/27/2009 1:17 PM >
| | | | Welcome to the Hamilton Beach Strip..
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[last edit 6/27/2009 1:20 PM by mello - edited 1 times]
when you are here, you wish you were there. but once you're there, it soon becomes a here, and you again wish to be there instead of here...
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Location: DunkarooLand
Gender: Male
I'm the worst of the best but I'm in this race.
| | | Re: Climbing Radio Towers?
<Reply # 127 on 6/27/2009 2:55 PM >
| | | | Posted by le_button_m
Welcome to the Hamilton Beach Strip..
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Thought about it.
Have not had the balls to climb an electricity pylon yet. If it isn't properly grounded or the wiring has degraded = not good [last] day for Vadder.
"No risk, no reward, no fun."
"Go all the way or walk away"
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Zorb
| | Re: Climbing Radio Towers?
<Reply # 128 on 6/27/2009 7:38 PM >
|  | | | Do NOT. It's a seriously bad idea. Enough electricity is induced into the tower itself to compromise your grip, especially with prolonged exposure. Also, EMF is extremely high. Low frequency EMF is dangerous as much as high frequency, once it gets beyond a certain level.
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mello
Location: Port Colborne
Gender: Female
tastes like chicken.
| | | Re: Climbing Radio Towers?
<Reply # 129 on 6/27/2009 7:55 PM >
| | | | I wasn't saying "welcome to hamilton beach" to imply that you actually try it, it was more just to say look at this beautiful piece of land that we are destroying.
when you are here, you wish you were there. but once you're there, it soon becomes a here, and you again wish to be there instead of here...
we will never be completely satisfied. |
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Lord
above and beyond
| | Re: Climbing Radio Towers?
<Reply # 130 on 6/27/2009 8:57 PM >
| | | | Posted by le_button_m
Welcome to the Hamilton Beach Strip..
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wow
imagine hitting that with a plane and dragging the lines into the water with you.
or if a tree went through during a tornado and made the lines hit the water
that is really bad placement
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Location: DunkarooLand
Gender: Male
I'm the worst of the best but I'm in this race.
| | | Re: Climbing Radio Towers?
<Reply # 131 on 7/31/2009 7:14 AM >
| | | | Bumping an old post here:
Posted by thoughtcriminal
That looks like some kind of government microwave site. I take it this is in Canada somewhere? The only towers I've seen quite like that are US government owned, here in the Washington DC area. Stairs would be a lot safer than ladders if you ask me. As usual, you'd only get fried if you climbed in front of a dish or horn.
edit: closeup pictures: http://www.emporis...n/wm/bu/?id=230696
Since it's Bell all those horns are probably long dead.
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pic credit abandoned dreams: PunkUE
pic credit abandoned dreams: PunkUE
my only pic
We tried to climb this about a week ago. We get up about 40 feet or so to a landing. After that landing the ladder starts being wobbly as hell. But there were four running (as in ... power on) tmobile cabinets with wires going all the way to the top. There was the old 1969 bell labs on the door to the shack nearby; and lights were on inside.
The fcc mandated aviation paint was all faded and chipped. I looked up the site number listed on the tower and can't find shit.
CT11132 was the number listed. If anyone has more luck than me with it; go for it.
Is it normal for the ladder to be that wobbly? On other towers; I've encountered a tension wire going up the back of the ladder, this one did not have it. And is there a way to tell if people still go up and service the t-mobile transmitters at the top of the tower or if in fact we explored and abandoned tower?
"No risk, no reward, no fun."
"Go all the way or walk away"
escensi omnis... |
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Roadrunner6913
Location: Washington, D.C.
Gender: Male
| | Re: Climbing Radio Towers?
<Reply # 132 on 8/1/2009 9:07 PM >
| | | | I've climbed 4 cell towers in my area, 3 of which were around 100' feet and 2 of them had the bolt-rung type, the other didn't have a latter. The other one was only about 50' feet and it had an actual latter, but it seamed sturdy ... a lot sturdier then some of the bolt-rungs I've encountered. It's fun no matter what though.
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\/adder
Location: DunkarooLand
Gender: Male
I'm the worst of the best but I'm in this race.
| | | Re: Climbing Radio Towers?
<Reply # 133 on 8/15/2009 6:53 AM >
| | | | Let me preface these pics with a quick story. We had pretty much four hours of epic failure at a water tower. For an hour we couldn't get the Grappling Hook Up. Then for another three hours we couldn't get the G-hook Down. I lost my homemade hook and rope.  So we drove out to a nearby long lines tower as dawn broke and the fog got really dense. More ill luck...kind of. The apparently were VERY LARGE FUCKING HAWKS (or Turkey Vultures) nesting or roosting at the top of this thing. Because two of these bastards started screeching up a storm and then flew off. I'm not about to fuck around the nest of something that size with large talons when I'm 200 feet above the earth.
I'll be hitting this place up again. Probably in the fall, when I can be more certain I won't disturb any large birds-of-prey's nests.
[last edit 8/15/2009 6:54 AM by \/adder - edited 1 times]
"No risk, no reward, no fun."
"Go all the way or walk away"
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Marost
Location: St Louis
Gender: Male
| | Re: Climbing Radio Towers?
<Reply # 134 on 8/25/2009 10:02 PM >
| | | | Posted by Zorb
Do NOT. It's a seriously bad idea. Enough electricity is induced into the tower itself to compromise your grip, especially with prolonged exposure. Also, EMF is extremely high. Low frequency EMF is dangerous as much as high frequency, once it gets beyond a certain level.
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We use to climb those things all the time as kids...right about parallel to the lower transmission lines.
Im not going to get into the details of it here, but in high school we came up with a new 'sport' called Slack Jumping. It basically involved two garden hoses, a pair of leather welding gloves....and, well thats pretty much it. The hoses were strung down the center of the tower and we would essentially bunjee jump off those fuckers.....drunk most of the time......
Ok, so I just found a story my buddy posted a few years back on the subject. Good times.
http://www.ubersite.com/m/51162
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jbtxk
Location: pnw
Gender: Male
there's always another way
| | Re: Climbing Radio Towers?
<Reply # 135 on 8/26/2009 9:59 AM >
| | | |
..strictly for informational and educational purposes, where would one find such lengthy hoses?
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RenegadeOfFunk
Location: Boston, MA
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Climbing Radio Towers?
<Reply # 136 on 8/26/2009 11:38 PM >
| | | | Last winter.
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\/adder
Location: DunkarooLand
Gender: Male
I'm the worst of the best but I'm in this race.
| | | Re: Climbing Radio Towers?
<Reply # 137 on 8/27/2009 11:51 AM >
| | | | Last Night. 
The Return to Vulture Tower.
Notice the second red beacon at the very top?
Where do you think the backlight in this next shot comes from?
Long Fucking Fall
Helluva View.
That AT&T Building the upper rooftop in my previous post? Dark Ascenders Unmasked.
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"No risk, no reward, no fun."
"Go all the way or walk away"
escensi omnis... |
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RailGuy88
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Location: Where you're not...
Gender: Male
| | Re: Climbing Radio Towers?
<Reply # 138 on 8/30/2009 3:32 AM >
| | | | I can't believe we're still on this topic!
If you're dumb enough to climb a tower without a body harness, then you are guaranteed a 90% chance rate of falling, injuring, or killing yourself upon attempt. The other 10% is guaranteeing you that someone will notice you and call the PD.
Any tower facility (no matter what size or location) is highly watched by local PD, Homeland Security, and tower site crew/owners (including myself).
I know it's cool to be at the site, see the amazing views, makeout w/ your girlfriend, and brag to your friends about the experience. But please trust me when I say to Stay Off All Towers! Especially ones with pegs or ladders. Stairs or elevators are rare, unless the structure is big enough to utilize one (ie: Sutro Tower or Twin Peaks Tower in SF), and all sites are secured with locks, fences, razor wire, cameras, and sometimes private security officers. -- And no, securing your pants belt to the ladder cable isn't going to save you.
If you think you can outwit the RF fields, the wind or other weather-related elements, and are 100% sure your upper body can handle a 200'+ climb up, then by all means go for it. Just remember when you're hanging there that I warned you of the risks. -- The last this industry needs is a bunch of kids climbing the towers because they felt man enough to do it.
And yeah, I've got 9 years experience with tower sites and RF equipment, including several certs. But whatever... Your life.
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\/adder
Location: DunkarooLand
Gender: Male
I'm the worst of the best but I'm in this race.
| | | Re: Climbing Radio Towers?
<Reply # 139 on 8/30/2009 4:19 AM >
| | | | I disagree. If that is true then I should be dead or arrested by now. I have a harness and only use attachment when I stop to take pictures; I only want to worry about my camera falling, not me. Out here they are stupid easy to find, access, and climb. And I don't only climb the ones located in the middle of state forests either. One of my primary roosts is located behind an active shipping facility with 24/7 security. I've only encountered barbwire,and tall fencing, never seen a single camera. I've climbed in the rain, in 30MPH gusts, everything short of thunderstorms. I've climbed completely exhausted, well rested, and everywhere in-between. I've grown accustomed to the height. I know to check what the safe working levels are on the tower for background RF. I know when and where my limits lie.
Maybe you describe the norm for Cali, but out here you are more likely to get caught at a hospital than a tower. If you use your head, they are a rather simple challenge.
"No risk, no reward, no fun."
"Go all the way or walk away"
escensi omnis... |
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