Exactly, I have a close friend that works on cellphone towers. If you do your job correctly, use the gear correctly, and have a responsible crew the chances of something failing is slim. Responsible companies make you go through over a month of training before you can even start your job to make sure you can do it.
All these cable shows are overly dramatized around fabricated pressure points -- always the time rush for various reason, the sun is setting, yadda yada. That's all routine construction stuff but the way these shows hype it so that viewers get all stressed in the watching, is just cheap eye candy. I won't watch another one. I'm not buying hype.
@@talchaitai9850 Regardless, this job is still among the most dangerous jobs to do. Dealing with extreme heights is no easy matter and not everyone can do it.
what towers did you climb? I think I want to get into this. I used to work for a commercial electrical company as a groundman setting towers and what not. How would you get into this per say? Ive been up in a basket on top of a 180ft 500kv tower but nothing like this.
Call any tower company and tell them you are interested and not afraid of heights and apply. You will have a job within a week if you are willing to travel. Check out tower climbers of America on Facebook. There are jobs listed and you can ask people who climb towers about how it is and advice starting out. Be safe it is your life, and like any job do your best
MiseryS you can find tower companies that will train you. However do not let this show be your impression of professional tower crews. This program is only out there for ratings. I've been in the communication industry for 20 years and this show IS NOT an accurate representation of professional crews and RF work/ repair.
Scott, you said it best. The whole time I was watching this I was commenting to my girlfriend about how much is wrong with what is going on here. There are great tower companies that will teach you proper safety and technique when doing this kind of work. Good ole common sense will help a lot too, it seems the people in this video lack that part.
Vasi Vilvoiu buds I’m a transport mechanic I have a hard time climbin a ladder to shove a couple bolts in the top fairing I like my shit on the ground lol don’t how tower climbers do it
She said she had been doing it for several years..but then at 200 feet says she's scared and she's never been that high before. What the hell has she been doing then?
Ok I cant believe what I just saw. First of all you are suppose to work smart not hard. Where is the Cathead? Why wasn't the dish built on the bottom. Why did they have a 35 lb. block? 250 ft climb only takes 15 min. First episode and they drop a mas pipe!!! Sorry everyone who is watching this program for the first time but we don't work like this at all and don't complain. So much more work involved. Whoop Whoop! to the real dogs out there.
TEMPO690 Seeing that you got hired on to a job like that, I assume it not your first job. I’m also sure you’ve seen many “reality tv” shows. It doesn’t matter where you work, it doesn’t even matter if it’s a family business. If you ever act like that to a coworker, much less your boss? Your going to get fired. And if it’s someone you just met? Your going to get the living shit beat out of you. I’m no where near bad ass, but I don’t like people acting like that. Especially on a damn tv show. They just made themselves look like the biggest bitches ever.
I would be really interested in this line of work(rock climbing with my pops from 12yr old to 19yr) no unhealthy fear of heights, used to doing shutdown work, know knots and safety. Everything about this show says drama. I watched 1 episode and I'm done, these fools ain't even got teathered tools. Respect for your work 🤘✌👍👊😬
This is an absolute joke! Something that should have been done in half a day and what is up with them worrying so damn much about climbing down in the dark? You ain’t a real tower tech until you’ve done night cuts in the winter on the east coast lmfao. You know them boys really need to invest in a cathead it would sure save some time and effort lol.
This show does accurately demonstrate how 'some' tower companies operate. The tower crews I hire are mindful, team oriented and professional. They decide if the project is going to take an extra day and it's OK if it does. Tower workers are under paid, towers are not universally designed with safety in the forefront. Many towers are not human friendly, I hate asking my crew to work towers like this. The video photography is outstanding. For those wanting to join a tower crew, know the work is intense, dangerous even when your hyper-safety oriented, danger is ever present (environmental, rigging, accidents, Etc.). There are plenty of videos out there that show how tower life is. All the talk about death and danger was weird. Talk about how to do the job safely and what you're going to do when the day is over, otherwise your talking like you are addicted to danger.
Yeah i found all the death talk to be really strange. I worked as a rigger for several years, and death was not brought up anywhere near that much. Like u mentioned, we mainly talked about the job, and the safest most efficient way to get it completed. No one really fixated on death an danger like some kind of adrenaline junkie. Id never want to be on a job with this crew.
I'm American, and tv has become a joke! Most shows are "reality" style, which is anything but reality. More like a made up drama, just shot in the real world where people are actually working, instead of on a set.
I was tower climber for a year and I can tell you this people are acting. This is a job that gets taken really serious, no room for errors and Nobody’s is perfect but this towers are not so difficult to work with. A lot of drama has being added here. They didn’t even showed that the site had to be shut down in order to work on it due to the radiation. 40 watt guy really looks like most foreman’s i had the pleasure to work with. My respect goes to all the man and woman that are still climbing
Does Yelp also allow reviews techical services like this ...? If so, then the channel picks the ones with 2 Stars or less, meaning the companies they pick are grateful for apperance fees, if any were paid ...
jon snow for thoes of us who arnt climbers it is still very entertaining and it shows us into your world that most of us know nothing about so it might be bad but its a start and safe to say i know more now than i did b4
@@003SOK yep you're one of those people. This isn't a debate. Do you believe those pictures from space are fake? And what benefit would scientists get from lying? If Earth is flat then where's the edge? It's a shame that people could even believe such a foolish conspiracy.
Good grief. Bee stings and 250'? My second day climbing towers I was told to hit a 400' tower and that very Friday I ripped my hand open on a control box. Still worked through it and still doing the job.
Retired, turn 80 next week. My office for most of my working life, including rigging, steel erecting, steeplejack, industrial abseiling. Entire range of broadcasting, helicopter work. And, I survived! Now enjoy watching these vlogs….stay safe guys.
Lol, I'm Mr tough tower climbers, risk taker, looking out for my son and my clients!!!💪 2 bee stings later...I have to use my arms cause I skip leg day every workout!!!😂😂😂
If you watch it at .025x speed it's actually quite comical. It almost becomes inspiring as it makes it look like a group of mentally handicap people are realizing their potential.
Just because a person is new to a crew doesn't mean they don't know what they are doing. Diddy acts so intelligent and so cool and one day that's gonna lead to someone dying.
the part where big bad boss man gets a bee sting, im sure all climbers can relate to that. there's always that one person who over exaggerates everything just to get out of one days work. its effen annoying
Josh Stephenson - wrong. The actual statue is only 151ft. When you add the base and block at the bottom it is 300ft. This show is a fucking pathetic excuse for entertainment. All that added in fake ass drama is pitiful.
they also said that dude had 250' of rope on him, which doubled his weight to 350 pounds. meaning he's 175 pounds, and the rope is 175 pounds. 600' of 5/8 rope, which i doubt they were using for the weak ass 10 pound antenna, weighs 80 pounds.
On behalf of everyone who isn’t a tower climber, we understand this is all drama and stupid. We know you guys work better than these clowns So thanks for doing a job most couldn’t do.
google statue of liberty, she stands at 305' i have a hard time watching this show, cant finish an episode honestly. and ill watch everyones climbing go-pro's all day long. 1/2 star rating. lol stay safe to the actual tower guys reading this stay 100%.
Look up Fred Dibnah if you want to see a bloke with balls of steel climb high buildings with no hard hat or safety equipment. An old style British steeplejack.
Thank you so much for that advice First I had heard of him and the 1st episode of The Fred Dibnah story is the best Doc I have ever seen. The man was just amazing.
thank you for mentioning Fred Dibnah…..I read your comment and thought I never heard of this man and googled his name.....now I am hooked watching the Fred Dibnah story..and I thank you for it...what a man...I mean almost forgot what a man is supposed to be...brave as hell....I mean....his attitude of one mistake and its half a day at the undertaker lol lol lol thank you Trevor Dance.
As a female tower climber this is a little embarrassing. Once you are above 100 ft it's pretty much all the same unless you're doing some crazy 1200 + tower. It's also not that physically demanding depending on the work you are doing on the tower and the extra weight of any tools you bring up. I encourage any woman interested in a career in climbing to try it out. Trust your gear and you really don't have much to worry about. You only really get better at climbing by actually climbing so give it some time and don't worry if you start off slow. I've been climbing for about 7 months now and my tallest tower so far was 440ft (190-300 is average), so nothing crazy yet. As far as being a woman in this industry I've had more problems with being coddled than I have anyone hating on me for being female. Most guys in the industry don't care as long as you pull your weight.
You’ve been a tower climber for four years and have never climbed above 200 ft? I know that I’m a know-nothing newbie (I literally start my first tower climbing job in 2 days 😬), but that seems a bit off to me.
Thank you for showing us ground lovers what a day in a tower climber is like , you couldnt pay me enough to do that job , that gal has more nerves in one finger than i have in my whole body
Do you think they could have been referring to putting a connector (crimped BNC) on the end of the cable? He said he was 'connectorising' (putting a connector on) it and 'hooking it up' (connecting).
haha, that dude gets a call about an alarm and climbs up there and knocks the stiff arm down...lmao...I'm pretty sure the stiff arm is not affecting the signal, no reason to even touch that! Shit like this make our job look like a joke. Would have been a lot better if they would have kept it real with some good tower hands!
Smh. As a once very successful tower hand let me assure you these people are hacks & doing cake work. This was hard to watch, if any one of them worked for the company I was employed with in the midwest, they would have broke. no doubt
Damn dude, I was out west working near Oregon on ice towers for Verizon. The pay was great but, the company I was with treated us like dogs. The work these people did is the easy shit lol
I know like all reality TV that this is fairly contrived and orchestrated, but if 40 oz really is the foreman, he needs to assert his authority over Jesse. That insubordination is unacceptable.
Maybe that is the real reason he is called '40w': a) that isn't particularly bright for a bulb, unless it is a compact fluorescent tube, or LED; or b) that is how much is flowing out of his ol' bone dome ...
I personally have tried and could only make it 150' and barely made it back to the ground. But I work with guys that climb 850'-2000' towers everyday and they don't start getting tired until the 1500' mark it's unbelievable how strong they are and when I give them a job on a 650' tower where done by lunch time I don't know how they do it
27:48 Jenny needs to be taught the proper direction to use her Channel Lock Pliers. If she continues to use them in the wrong direction, she won't have the fittings tight enough. This could cause the nuts to loosen and drop the load. I hope they watch these comments, it could save someones life. Signed, an old mechanic.
I couldn't climb up and right back down for $1 million in tax free cash. My uncle was scared of heights, but a test pilot at Edwards AFB. I never understood that. I admire anyone who climbs tower or hangs steel. 🏆👍🌟
Exactly. Why does she need to wear a low cut blouse, make up, and hipster clothes? As much as they want to make fun of the 60 year old man from Arkansas, that doesn't excuse them from bringing an axe wound onto a man's job.
For her to be climbing for 4 years and the highest she has climbed is 250ft. I find that hard to believe. Ive been doing it for just over a year and have climbed twice that high.
It's kinda funny how she was doing this for 3 or 4 years and climbing off a 250' tower was a milestone. Not to mention it took 2 guys to pull up a small antenna.
Is this show a joke? They make anyone who actually works in the industry look like a bunch of pansies. Dramatizing the climb up and down like its the most dangerous thing imaginable. And a god dame romance are you kidding me?? You had to add a love story to this crap? Ridiculous, the whole thing. Completely over the top. I was happy to see a show about the industry on t.v but after watching this I hope it doesn't continue.
yeah, they pulled it by hand (totally lame), yeah they didn't show the waveguide snapped in, and the channys. BUT, all in all the show did help show people some of what we go through. Most people don't even notice towers; let alone the brotherhood that climbs them.
Just curious, do you know the cancer rate among tower workers? Serious question, with the shot going up these days, I wouldn't doubt it if the rate is high.
99 out of 100 tower climbers WILL get cancer within the first week of working and out of those 99 people, 98 of them WILL die of severe brain cancer by the second week of work. The pay is good though :)
Climbed my first cable tower in '66..lost count and retired with over 40+ yrs in the business. This was WAAAY over dramatized. Hell I even saw a Ft Worth climber get his finger tip cut off. While at the top of a 700' in FL. Back in the early '70s. And STILL finish the job.
The tower isn't dangerous.
The lack of professionalism, self control and teamwork is...
gravity rules.
Exactly, I have a close friend that works on cellphone towers. If you do your job correctly, use the gear correctly, and have a responsible crew the chances of something failing is slim. Responsible companies make you go through over a month of training before you can even start your job to make sure you can do it.
tower in space isnt ^^
I am glad this show didn't make it passed 1 episode. Boy they sure did a good job making all us real tower climbers look like morons.
LMAOOOO TRUE TRUE
They sure did
I love watching tower climbs. This reality show BS ruins it.
@@robertheintz8017 Nothing like how it really is. Hopefully that company was shut down.
Yeah that show tower dawgs made the industry look sooo bad!
40 Watt seems like the only normal person there, the rest look like over dramatic actors.
All these cable shows are overly dramatized around fabricated pressure points -- always the time rush for various reason, the sun is setting, yadda yada. That's all routine construction stuff but the way these shows hype it so that viewers get all stressed in the watching, is just cheap eye candy. I won't watch another one. I'm not buying hype.
@@talchaitai9850 I feel the same way. When the roid monster walked in I thought this was going to be another episode of Jersey Shore. XD
It would be boring af if they didn't add bs drama..
@@talchaitai9850 Regardless, this job is still among the most dangerous jobs to do. Dealing with extreme heights is no easy matter and not everyone can do it.
No snow or rain and they still bitch lol
As a experienced tech, best part of this video is that in 2 day Naked and Afraid is coming on.
Legend has it, they climbed back up after realizing they forgot to path that dish, and are currently still pathing...
“Just got a loose connection up here I’m gonna put some tape on it and it’ll be alright” words of the foreman sounds legit
Just put some tape on it! That'll fix the PIM issue!
Hahahahahahhaha
As a tower climber this is ridiculous.
what towers did you climb? I think I want to get into this. I used to work for a commercial electrical company as a groundman setting towers and what not. How would you get into this per say? Ive been up in a basket on top of a 180ft 500kv tower but nothing like this.
Call any tower company and tell them you are interested and not afraid of heights and apply. You will have a job within a week if you are willing to travel. Check out tower climbers of America on Facebook. There are jobs listed and you can ask people who climb towers about how it is and advice starting out. Be safe it is your life, and like any job do your best
Yep... There was A LOT wrong with this tower crew/ TV show...
MiseryS you can find tower companies that will train you. However do not let this show be your impression of professional tower crews. This program is only out there for ratings. I've been in the communication industry for 20 years and this show IS NOT an accurate representation of professional crews and RF work/ repair.
Scott, you said it best. The whole time I was watching this I was commenting to my girlfriend about how much is wrong with what is going on here. There are great tower companies that will teach you proper safety and technique when doing this kind of work. Good ole common sense will help a lot too, it seems the people in this video lack that part.
74 year old retired tower rigger here enjoying these clips from my Lazy-Boy. Stay safe lads and lasses.
The female acted all tough in the beginning and then got in the air and started crying. 😂
Wonder how many of these keyboard warriors would shit their pants after the first 30ft.
Vasi Vilvoiu at least don’t front like you’re hard then cry.
Death-NVK3 u heard correctly
Vasi Vilvoiu buds I’m a transport mechanic I have a hard time climbin a ladder to shove a couple bolts in the top fairing I like my shit on the ground lol don’t how tower climbers do it
@@alexbrant8375 exactly. My hands are sweating just watching this 😝
17 years in this business and I never knew how much of a god I really was!
The girl was bragging. Five mins into the climb "i'm scared" on the way down "I'm tired" haha.
LoL...
and using the channys backwards lol
She said she had been doing it for several years..but then at 200 feet says she's scared and she's never been that high before. What the hell has she been doing then?
She still has more cajones than 99% of men out there.
Woman can fool you I've been fooled all my life 😭😂😂
Miguel San He speaks for every man who has ever lived, or ever will live. Lol
I was flustered by them boobies
I was really thinking
Nice rack, like Coca-Cola
those are the real thing...lol
Ok I cant believe what I just saw. First of all you are suppose to work smart not hard. Where is the Cathead? Why wasn't the dish built on the bottom. Why did they have a 35 lb. block? 250 ft climb only takes 15 min. First episode and they drop a mas pipe!!! Sorry everyone who is watching this program for the first time but we don't work like this at all and don't complain. So much more work involved. Whoop Whoop! to the real dogs out there.
I just got hired, I start in a few day's. This stupid show gave me a bit of a scare thanks for clearing that up. These people seem like idiot's.
TEMPO690 Seeing that you got hired on to a job like that, I assume it not your first job.
I’m also sure you’ve seen many “reality tv” shows. It doesn’t matter where you work, it doesn’t even matter if it’s a family business.
If you ever act like that to a coworker, much less your boss? Your going to get fired.
And if it’s someone you just met? Your going to get the living shit beat out of you.
I’m no where near bad ass, but I don’t like people acting like that.
Especially on a damn tv show. They just made themselves look like the biggest bitches ever.
I would be really interested in this line of work(rock climbing with my pops from 12yr old to 19yr) no unhealthy fear of heights, used to doing shutdown work, know knots and safety. Everything about this show says drama. I watched 1 episode and I'm done, these fools ain't even got teathered tools. Respect for your work 🤘✌👍👊😬
WHOOP BROTHER
This is an absolute joke! Something that should have been done in half a day and what is up with them worrying so damn much about climbing down in the dark? You ain’t a real tower tech until you’ve done night cuts in the winter on the east coast lmfao. You know them boys really need to invest in a cathead it would sure save some time and effort lol.
This show does accurately demonstrate how 'some' tower companies operate. The tower crews I hire are mindful, team oriented and professional. They decide if the project is going to take an extra day and it's OK if it does. Tower workers are under paid, towers are not universally designed with safety in the forefront. Many towers are not human friendly, I hate asking my crew to work towers like this. The video photography is outstanding. For those wanting to join a tower crew, know the work is intense, dangerous even when your hyper-safety oriented, danger is ever present (environmental, rigging, accidents, Etc.). There are plenty of videos out there that show how tower life is. All the talk about death and danger was weird. Talk about how to do the job safely and what you're going to do when the day is over, otherwise your talking like you are addicted to danger.
Yeah i found all the death talk to be really strange. I worked as a rigger for several years, and death was not brought up anywhere near that much. Like u mentioned, we mainly talked about the job, and the safest most efficient way to get it completed. No one really fixated on death an danger like some kind of adrenaline junkie. Id never want to be on a job with this crew.
I worry a lot when she straps on her gear
Me: what gear we talking bout lol
funny
very amateur and over dramatic
VeinBe you seem to be an expert
oh...You mean Canadians and Brits don't act like this on Camera? Bullshit! lol
I'm American, and tv has become a joke! Most shows are "reality" style, which is anything but reality. More like a made up drama, just shot in the real world where people are actually working, instead of on a set.
I agree
Like most American docs...
He's been electrocuted so many times. Right, sounds like he knows exactly what he is doing xD
Working in electrical for that long you get zapped pretty good pretty frequently.
I was tower climber for a year and I can tell you this people are acting. This is a job that gets taken really serious, no room for errors and Nobody’s is perfect but this towers are not so difficult to work with. A lot of drama has being added here. They didn’t even showed that the site had to be shut down in order to work on it due to the radiation. 40 watt guy really looks like most foreman’s i had the pleasure to work with. My respect goes to all the man and woman that are still climbing
This show is full of amateurs!
How does Discovery always manage to find the most unprofessional and incompetent groups of people for their shows?
Does Yelp also allow reviews techical services like this ...? If so, then the channel picks the ones with 2 Stars or less, meaning the companies they pick are grateful for apperance fees, if any were paid ...
They are the cheapest
To show the inexperienced how it is to be 100s of feet in the air and not ground level 🤣
I couldn't even watch this whole video. What a joke.
I guess with your remark you do same for living right.
so many issues here....as a climber this show is just a joke!!!
hey, they just installed a dish at 210' that's going to bounce a signal form DC to NY. they just proved the earth is flat. give them a break.
jon snow for thoes of us who arnt climbers it is still very entertaining and it shows us into your world that most of us know nothing about so it might be bad but its a start and safe to say i know more now than i did b4
@@003SOK Earth is flat?
@@garrymiller3171 if they can connect two dishes hundreds of miles apart then there is no curve.
@@003SOK yep you're one of those people. This isn't a debate. Do you believe those pictures from space are fake? And what benefit would scientists get from lying? If Earth is flat then where's the edge? It's a shame that people could even believe such a foolish conspiracy.
Good grief. Bee stings and 250'? My second day climbing towers I was told to hit a 400' tower and that very Friday I ripped my hand open on a control box. Still worked through it and still doing the job.
Retired, turn 80 next week. My office for most of my working life, including rigging, steel erecting, steeplejack, industrial abseiling. Entire range of broadcasting, helicopter work. And, I survived! Now enjoy watching these vlogs….stay safe guys.
Gets stung by a bee “FIGHTING OFF THE PAIN!” 💀💀💀💀👌🏻
Lol, I'm Mr tough tower climbers, risk taker, looking out for my son and my clients!!!💪
2 bee stings later...I have to use my arms cause I skip leg day every workout!!!😂😂😂
What is one...or two bees doing up there... looking for honey?... maybe looking for someone to sting in the off season... lol
If you watch it at .025x speed it's actually quite comical. It almost becomes inspiring as it makes it look like a group of mentally handicap people are realizing their potential.
"For 10 mins we are gonna talk about this gap they have to go through"
These shows are hilarious, they drama everything up to the max lol
Fun fact: The average yearly earnings for a worker is about $56,000.
NLEEY damn lmao that ain’t worth it.. that’s nothing
NLEEY Nope. Not today.
Where did you get those facts? I make more than that in 6 months...I climb towers in almost every nothern state. I get paid per job.
that’s pretty accurate give or take. - experienced tophand
anyone else think Didi is going to learn humility at 33 feet per second /ps. ?
funshootin1 I'm hoping lol
I climb towers, and find this very funny
Charles Campbell Fascination for the inexperienced, funny as crap for the real workers. Win/win lol.
Just because a person is new to a crew doesn't mean they don't know what they are doing. Diddy acts so intelligent and so cool and one day that's gonna lead to someone dying.
the part where big bad boss man gets a bee sting, im sure all climbers can relate to that. there's always that one person who over exaggerates everything just to get out of one days work. its effen annoying
It said the Lindon tower was 250' and that it was twice as tall as the Statue of Liberty, the Statue of Liberty is 305' lol
Josh Stephenson - wrong. The actual statue is only 151ft. When you add the base and block at the bottom it is 300ft. This show is a fucking pathetic excuse for entertainment. All that added in fake ass drama is pitiful.
Gerard Gibson wrong it's 305 ft from bottom of the Base
they also said that dude had 250' of rope on him, which doubled his weight to 350 pounds. meaning he's 175 pounds, and the rope is 175 pounds. 600' of 5/8 rope, which i doubt they were using for the weak ass 10 pound antenna, weighs 80 pounds.
U GUYS CAN HAVE IT, and ALL the MONEY ! I'll WATCH FROM the GROUND !!! THANK YOU
"If we're late, our client will lose millions of dollars every minute" I just couldn't watch this over dramatic piece of sh*t
On behalf of everyone who isn’t a tower climber, we understand this is all drama and stupid. We know you guys work better than these clowns
So thanks for doing a job most couldn’t do.
google statue of liberty, she stands at 305' i have a hard time watching this show, cant finish an episode honestly. and ill watch everyones climbing go-pro's all day long. 1/2 star rating. lol stay safe to the actual tower guys reading this stay 100%.
and no safety rope? hmm..
Same! I'll watch some professionals who actually know what they are doing climb towers and wind turbines. This show is a joke 😂
I was like ummmm.... Pretty sure the Statue of Liberty stands more than 125 feet.... lol.
Fantastic video. Always envy you guys. Best regards Andrew
Looks great, I love the aerial shots!
90% sure "40 Watt" didn't have his cable grab on when he climbed up there lol old school free climber
Yeah I noticed this as well. I free climb myself ...yes its dumb and irresponsible but the faster I get there the faster I get down.
Look up Fred Dibnah if you want to see a bloke with balls of steel climb high buildings with no hard hat or safety equipment. An old style British steeplejack.
Thank you so much for that advice First I had heard of him and the 1st episode of The Fred Dibnah story is the best Doc I have ever seen. The man was just amazing.
Ya I just watched his videos. Amazing how hardcore that guy was.
Trevor Dance
And with a cigarette between his teeth. R.I.P. Fred.
thank you for mentioning Fred Dibnah…..I read your comment and thought I never heard of this man and googled his name.....now I am hooked watching the Fred Dibnah story..and I thank you for it...what a man...I mean almost forgot what a man is supposed to be...brave as hell....I mean....his attitude of one mistake and its half a day at the undertaker lol lol lol thank you Trevor Dance.
Dave Devally don't forget the couple of pints of beer!
As a female tower climber this is a little embarrassing. Once you are above 100 ft it's pretty much all the same unless you're doing some crazy 1200 + tower. It's also not that physically demanding depending on the work you are doing on the tower and the extra weight of any tools you bring up. I encourage any woman interested in a career in climbing to try it out. Trust your gear and you really don't have much to worry about. You only really get better at climbing by actually climbing so give it some time and don't worry if you start off slow. I've been climbing for about 7 months now and my tallest tower so far was 440ft (190-300 is average), so nothing crazy yet. As far as being a woman in this industry I've had more problems with being coddled than I have anyone hating on me for being female. Most guys in the industry don't care as long as you pull your weight.
You’ve been a tower climber for four years and have never climbed above 200 ft? I know that I’m a know-nothing newbie (I literally start my first tower climbing job in 2 days 😬), but that seems a bit off to me.
I noticed that haha. Two weeks in they send me up twice that and eventually quadruple. Cell workers climb lower than broadcast workers I guess.
I’ve done rescues/recoveries on towers, honestly I really don’t like being up so high I can think about my splatter pattern on the way down.
Square point shovel boy needs the money... lol
Broo I think about what it's gonna feel like
Fred Dibnah would have pissed his pants laughing at these reality TV blockheads
Bhoy 10
Fred would probably take half a day at the undertaker’s over watching this goat rodeo. 👍
@@quantumfoam140 Goat rodeo? 😂 Love that!
What a crew unbelievable not to many can do what they do plain and simple they all have brass balls
Thank you for showing us ground lovers what a day in a tower climber is like , you couldnt pay me enough to do that job , that gal has more nerves in one finger than i have in my whole body
You guys want to hear a joke? This show!!!
You only think Diddy should be running the show because yall dating, so shut and be seen not heard
If you're aware of how dangerous it is, and then you tell them "we will not fail under any circumstances" you have your priorities out of whack.
Imagine busting your ass for 10 plus hours and then have to climb all the way down at the end of the day 😂😂
Well you can tell this is a discovery channel production since it has tons of extra 'drama' ruining what could have been a good show.
Connectorizing!!....CONNECTORIZING!!! You mean Connecting. Bush has got a lot to answer for!
LOL yeah I caught that.. That is as bad as saying "more better" or "gooder" hahaha
Do you think they could have been referring to putting a connector (crimped BNC) on the end of the cable? He said he was 'connectorising' (putting a connector on) it and 'hooking it up' (connecting).
Probably. Most likely, yes.
John Watkins Mmm...maybe got a point there John, still sounds a bit too 'Overexplainitorized' for me tho : )
a lot much more better
I'm a small time plumber boy I give it all to these trades men wow u deserve all the credit
lol best thing I’ve ever fast forwarded through 🙈
Clipping off to the horizontal ladder rungs is not too smart, they should be clipping to the vertical sections of the ladder.
I am not a welder therefor i do not trust welds
Greg Parker I do not trust clips, welds, ropes, or any of that stuff, so I stay on ground, lol
@@SniperLogic and trust riggas not to drop shit
25:11 when all you do is bench...
I like that work
These people could dramatize lightbulb changers in a one story building.
haha, that dude gets a call about an alarm and climbs up there and knocks the stiff arm down...lmao...I'm pretty sure the stiff arm is not affecting the signal, no reason to even touch that! Shit like this make our job look like a joke. Would have been a lot better if they would have kept it real with some good tower hands!
If i complained at work as much as these guys do my crew would unclip my safety’s and throw me off of the tower
lmao i agree, my coworker watched this with me and said “i’d set your grillon on fire if you bitched like that”
Plus it takes 2 dudes to pull up a 10lb antenna lmao damn this shit hella funny af
“Connectorizing”😂😂😂
Smh. As a once very successful tower hand let me assure you these people are hacks & doing cake work. This was hard to watch, if any one of them worked for the company I was employed with in the midwest, they would have broke. no doubt
MN NiCE about how much did you make a year if you don’t mind me asking?
$12,500 per year
Damn dude, I was out west working near Oregon on ice towers for Verizon. The pay was great but, the company I was with treated us like dogs. The work these people did is the easy shit lol
MN NiCE I’m sure you are right this is all show
Id smash that girls clam all day long
Turkey vulture circles over head, yoo lookit da hawk!!
Lol...
dfazen89 The scream was a hawk scream. He saw fresh meat, just too big to tackle.
«Woman can fool you. I been fooled all my life» -40 Watt.
“It’s getting dark” as he says this mid day
Been a better show if the couple would have joined the mile hi club.
Wrong show perv
lol getting it on, on a tower now that would be the first
Yea, instead of watching the bee sting boy, watch Den-Jen shag!!
250ft.club...what a country... lol
I know like all reality TV that this is fairly contrived and orchestrated, but if 40 oz really is the foreman, he needs to assert his authority over Jesse. That insubordination is unacceptable.
Maybe that is the real reason he is called '40w': a) that isn't particularly bright for a bulb, unless it is a compact fluorescent tube, or LED; or b) that is how much is flowing out of his ol' bone dome ...
I personally have tried and could only make it 150' and barely made it back to the ground. But I work with guys that climb 850'-2000' towers everyday and they don't start getting tired until the 1500' mark it's unbelievable how strong they are and when I give them a job on a 650' tower where done by lunch time I don't know how they do it
Diddy definitely a hotshot. All talk. Cant have a guy like that in the squad. And he wants to be a leader
27:48 Jenny needs to be taught the proper direction to use her Channel Lock Pliers. If she continues to use them in the wrong direction, she won't have the fittings tight enough. This could cause the nuts to loosen and drop the load. I hope they watch these comments, it could save someones life. Signed, an old mechanic.
detroitbob58 Loose nuts are known to cause dropped loads.
don't tell Jenny what to do, she's been climbing towers for 34 years. you have a problem with that?
Yeah look who trained her. He hired her to drive his, no licensed steroidal butt around.
Omg using channel locks to tighten bolts what a bunch of rookie hacks
I couldn't climb up and right back down for $1 million in tax free cash. My uncle was scared of heights, but a test pilot at Edwards AFB. I never understood that. I admire anyone who climbs tower or hangs steel. 🏆👍🌟
My palms are sweating just looking at this
Cut the extra added drama and you got a wonderful show.
12:46 guy drops the damn earth 😬🤦♂️
Respect for this Job👌👌
Wow..nice job. 👋
All the chick did is prove she can't handle it.
Exactly. Why does she need to wear a low cut blouse, make up, and hipster clothes? As much as they want to make fun of the 60 year old man from Arkansas, that doesn't excuse them from bringing an axe wound onto a man's job.
Caleb--- Axe wound lol classic!!
Axe wound LOLOLOLOL
pjs5406 some men can't do that.lol
Dean Daniel whats axe wound mean
40:12
- “ I pooped myself today.”
This is why it’s important to open your mouth when you talk so you can properly pronounce syllables.
Are these the same guys that bend a zigzag on their Honda civic car antenna?
For her to be climbing for 4 years and the highest she has climbed is 250ft. I find that hard to believe. Ive been doing it for just over a year and have climbed twice that high.
Jenny may be the only appealing thing about this whole job
first of all, these guys do not know the real job!
they like to talk a big game totally fake
It's kinda funny how she was doing this for 3 or 4 years and climbing off a 250' tower was a milestone. Not to mention it took 2 guys to pull up a small antenna.
Yes... but she didn't use her hands... lol
I don't like climbing into my deer stand
TheCampRandallKid 44 me either. Climb before dawn, get down after dark. Otherwise I ground blind lol.
Is this show a joke? They make anyone who actually works in the industry look like a bunch of pansies. Dramatizing the climb up and down like its the most dangerous thing imaginable. And a god dame romance are you kidding me?? You had to add a love story to this crap? Ridiculous, the whole thing. Completely over the top. I was happy to see a show about the industry on t.v but after watching this I hope it doesn't continue.
yeah, they pulled it by hand (totally lame), yeah they didn't show the waveguide snapped in, and the channys. BUT, all in all the show did help show people some of what we go through. Most people don't even notice towers; let alone the brotherhood that climbs them.
I didnt notice towers until we met. Now I know so much. Totally rocks what you do for a living
Just curious, do you know the cancer rate among tower workers? Serious question, with the shot going up these days, I wouldn't doubt it if the rate is high.
99 out of 100 tower climbers WILL get cancer within the first week of working and out of those 99 people, 98 of them WILL die of severe brain cancer by the second week of work. The pay is good though :)
Big Jay holy shit doooood! But "they" won't/don't tell you that, know what I mean...
You all need to get drunky before climbing... much more entertainment for viewing :)
Why don't they include a built in block and tackle setup at the top when they install the tower?
I can just see that Coaxial cable flapping in the wind, no supports ha ha!
over produced........
What about all the so-called satellites. There are no satellites. That’s what that don’t you to know.
thank you
my anxiety level goes up just watching this
"connectorising" it how do you even spell that LOL what a bunch of BS!!!!
A whole dayyto run 1 line and 2 antennas lol we do that in twho hour tops with snapping the line in
Lol ikr?!?
Where im from we call that fucking the dog
Climbed my first cable tower in '66..lost count and retired with over 40+ yrs in the business. This was WAAAY over dramatized. Hell I even saw a Ft Worth climber get his finger tip cut off. While at the top of a 700' in FL. Back in the early '70s. And STILL finish the job.
😂9 years later this shit still making me laugh 😂😂