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
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.
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 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
@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.
@@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.
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.
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!!
@@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.
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
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 !
@@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
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.
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.
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.
@@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?
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
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 .
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.
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'.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
@@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 !!
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.)
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
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.
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".
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'.
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
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.
"The sky more than the sea is terribly unforgiving of even the slightest mistake" Airborne Infantry
gravity kills - Isaac newton
Dont believe climbing these towers pay you more than a technician climbing 20-30 ft high telephone poles.
@@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.
No no they don't sway at all. They twist a bit but zero sway.
@@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
@@shawnshurtz9147 bro they move! Call it what you want. You can see one move from the ground in strong wind.
@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.
@@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.
Climb wind turbines. 🤟
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.
It’s a easy job and fast openings lol
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!!
@@apersonyoudontknow3346 O_O
Thats more than 1/4 mile up. Those men have balls of steel. Very sorry to hear of life lost.
Hell yeah they remind me of the roughnecks from the 30s
@@broman7271 in india million workers work without protection on different jobs and many thousand workers died per year
@@borntoclimb7116 are… are you bragging about that statistic?
@@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.
Wdym thats 1/4 a mile up its 2000ft?
Whatever the reason, how heartbreaking. Prayers for his family. 🙏
Came here after watching The Fall
Same 😢
@@Realaylamarie me too
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.
@@misterclownface Take out the "The". It should just be 'Fall'. Not sure why they said 'The Fall'....
Same 😮
Rest in peace to that gentleman
Who else ended up here because of "Fall"?
meee
yep
Same here
My deepest condolences to his family, so sorry this happened....
why t f u sorry. you didn't do anything!
@@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.
Doubt they will be reading this!! idiot.
@@Dogappel there’s always someone like you
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
Firefighters don’t even get paid that much
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.
The get more than that
@@thesisypheanjournal1271 Women climb towers too what's your point?
@@bilalsimstyler2396 thats right, climbers work hard to but the feminists ignore the true problems and create their own problems.
Prayers to his family. Glad the other 2 were ok.
There's not enough $$$$ in the universe to make me climb those towers!!! Condolences to all involved!!!
No-one purposed you $$$ just enjoy your soft sofa on the ground
@@alphacentauri7381 what?
This is the tower that inspired the movie The Fall. Just goes to show how dangerous it is even for professionals.
No it wasn’t.
Reminds me of the movie Fall : tower b67
It's actually the same tower and that's actually terrible
@@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 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
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 !
Wow
baloney
@@mikejones9961You should have looked it up...before you showed your ignorance !
@@GregAkers you should provide a link, stupid
@@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
Prayers Go Out For the Families Involved. 🙏
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.
Damn you should write a book haha I could listen to these stories for hours
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.
Lord I pray that you comfort this family & these friends during this tragic loss.
Condolences to this family.
Amen
Imagine being the other workers watching him fall to his death...
God Bless that persons family in this terrible time ! Our sincere condolences to each of you ! Our prayers are with you !
I'm so sorry to his loved ones. Absolutely devastating
Rescuing someone from this height is a mighty tall order.
It was the height of the firemen's career.
Prayers for his family.
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.
Maybe he enjoyed his work. Many tower techs do.
Someone has to do it.
Well you love your TV and radio if you want those men have to climb...
Tower rescue classes are very important. There's ways of strapping people to you and securely lower them down.
prayers to the family indeed......
Few things are more dangerous than television.
On so many levels.
Driving on the highway being one of them
Terrible loss. Very tragic but at least the family will be taken care of for his work.
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 $50 an hour.
Lacks context.
Bullshit.
They pay like 30,000$ per climb lol
@@renland2934 that's a damn lie, just go on indeed and look tower climbing jobs, they all pay like $15-$30 per hour
@@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?
This is a few miles east of Mobile Alabama
And this is how the movie ‘Fall’ was made.
it happend after the movie so maybe some sorta curse
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!
My prayers to the family.
Did you really pray for them
OSHA is going to be all over this one, and should be. Safety is the first priority.
OSHA will write a ticket if the guy didn't get the jab
Its very related zu fall in 2022 the movie fall. Wow i'm sorry for the loss, rest in peace
So sad I pray for their family I hope their friends and family come together cuz they're all going to need comfort
Praying for his family 🙏
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
That looks exactly like the tower from the movies fall
I'm always scared for the workers that have to do jobs way up in the sky
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. 🙏🙏✝️✝️
My brother died on a tower collapse. KDUH Hemmingsford mast Nebraska. 2k foot tower.
Heart breakering but uhh he’s hunter from fall 🙂
it happened after the movie was made
Sad , prayers for his family.
A smart Chief looking out for his brothers in a difficult rescue 👍👍
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 .
Omg real fall moves
fax
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.
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
Anyone else get sent to this video after watching someone climb a giant ass tower
Is this the incident that inspired fall
Yea
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'.
@@JermaIncr No it's not.
Good friend of mine fell 220 feet to his death. Sadly
RIP brother....
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.
Why is this basically the movie "fall"
@@ameliesantoro everybody gangsta till someone falls 2000 feet
@@edsddsdsds4719 bruh
Man dies at work. Men risk it all for family.
Damn, that is just awful. Poor guy trying to make a living, goes to work and doesn't come back
Somehow calling him a contractor right off the bat seems to make it feel less bad... Let's just call him a tower technician
That just sucks he had like 30 seconds before he died from falling 😢
Fall film
The safety is not well. They must have a cable attached to the top which holds the climber permanently from the beginning.
If you fall a distance and hit your head or vital body parts that's not gonna save you.
And just think, they can’t even use a helicopter.
God bless everyone. So sorry
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.
He did not have his arresting safety gear on! That is a major safety violation!
What type of equipment? Why were the men not secured as protocol. Is this experimental equipment? Answers please?
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.
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.
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!
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!
@@douglasskaalrud6865 he either made a mistake or died of a medical problem!! That’s only 2 things that can happen!! Geez
Could have been windy bro
@@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 !!
Someone correct me if I'm wrong but was that the workers body on the tower when they reached close to the top?
At 0:52 I believe you are correct.
I would have to wear my parachute if I was going that high!
So would I. Maybe someone who knows can tell us why they don't. At that point, you're basically a base jumper.
@@dhyde9207 This is a guyed tower, think cables to get all hung up in and collapse the chute.
@@trex2092 The BASE Jump from this towers is possible but its to dangerous in a uncontrolled situation close to the guywires jumping.
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.)
AirBus A380-800 (Emirates)
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
God Bless the family
No one could pay me enough to change a lightbulb on top of a tower.
Interesting that they don’t say what station broadcasts from that tower.
It was KTVO, Kirksville, Missouri.
The closest community to the tower was Colony, MO.
Damn! Bless his heart
How much worse it can get a man die
He will not go home and see his love ones
They are pretty guarded about where this happened.
That's so sad!
Bro wth found this on someone's Playlist called "Songs to sample"
Oh my..1700 ft. God bless..
What voltages are these towers supplying to the load at the top?
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.
He lost his life but it could have been much worse……..isn’t death the worst?
Tower work is extremely dangerous and physically exhausting.
They are not paid enough to do the job.
I read that this kxtv/kovr Tower inspired the movie Fall (that was released in theatres 2022). I bet this incident also did...
Thats a high strenuous job for sure.
Prayers for the family
Which state or city? Didn't mention.
Baldwin County, Robertsdale, AL
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.
Loxley, AL over there close to Mobile.
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".
Loxley and Robertsdale are very close to each other. I am from Loxley. It could have been right on the line in between.
🙏 for his family and friends.
OSHA doesn't need to be involved. I'm sure the company knows how this happened.
Fall
Always gotta stay aware!!
It’s despicable how the movie FALL was based off of this tragedy…. Shame on those movie producers
it was NOT
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'.
God these towers are super hard to climb
*FALL INTENSIFIES*
Uhhhh why did this show up under tower of terror demolition
So sad to hear : (