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@Benny-Worm9082 6 күн бұрын
Amazing video :) I commented on your other channel a few years ago and forgot about it but how are you doing? :) glad to see you're still making good videos
@markmartin5765 Ай бұрын
Wouldn’t this job be easier and safer with a helicopter? Just asking, without the wind of course.Electric companies use helicopters to work on transmission power lines.
@jhettish Ай бұрын
Lots of jobs would be better with a helicopter BUT no this one. The actual work we were doing took place inside the tower. In addition there are 6 levels of guy wires which would be very dangerous to a helicopte, the tower and the guys working inside. Actually we were a small company doing what would be a simple job on the ground. There was a good thing with that tower problem also. I had hurt my back for the first time in over 20 years. My back injury is ancient, meaning I can't remember when I hurt it the firs time. Basically though when the rare back problem occurs it's always spasmed (is that a work?) muscle or muscles. Climbing the tower that day actually "fixed" my back. I only climbed so that my guy would have an immediate backup if something went happened. I was still hurting as I started up the tower. There was a lot of stretching going on as I climbed 12 inches at a time. After two or three hours climbing back down my pain had going away, completely. In the 70s I raced motorcycles, motocross and cross country and later I played a lot of adult soccer. My injuries during that time were all muscles and a cracked rib or two. Soccer got a bunch of muscle injuries while motorcycle inguries were rare. In 25 I'm going to be 80 years old and I'm still doing (few) pull ups. I just like having fun. I was young when I quit climbing. I was 78 and retired from the company I started in 1983 about a week later. Do I miss working? I sure do, John
@jhettish Ай бұрын
Helicopters are used in tower work when the item being lifted is measured in Tons and more than 20 feet in length. John
@lennongroover4189 2 ай бұрын
I have this same model number kg114. How does it flash mine doesn’t
@jhettish 2 ай бұрын
There is a control unit in the transmitter building. There is a sort of special lamp that fits the socket. If the beacon is to go back on the tower it needs to meet specifications provided by the Federal Aviation Agency and the 620 watt lamp but if it is just going to be used for a decoration the special socket can be removed and replaced by whatever will allow a regular lamp to fit inside and creat light. Tower Flashing beacons, like that one can be made to flash at 55 times per with a module by adding a bit of rewiring. Thanks for the comment. John Hettish
@lennongroover4189 2 ай бұрын
@ no it won’t unless I were to have a little short tower stand for it in by dads back yard otherwise no it won’t go back on the tower. It was actually used on the roof of a house in Tennessee by people who wore tinfoil hats to call in aliens the person who was restoring the house I think said
@lennongroover4189 2 ай бұрын
@ @ is a typo
@lennongroover4189 2 ай бұрын
@ I want to keep it original no house hold lamps in it
@Nelsonsridesandattractions 3 ай бұрын
Hi John, i have watched a few of your videos on a different channel of mine I find tower work fascinating, i think i would have a mild fear of climbing them after movies like fall, even though i know from watching your videos, there would be very little chance of that happening with the proper equipment I find radio communications interesting, its interesting to see all the components that go into being able to turn your tv on and seeing a picture So that antenna would have been right at the top where the sticks are these days I noticed it had got the plate on top for the aircraft warning beacon, and the static discharge spikes on top of the plate, along with the climb bolts up the post I also noticed that the base mount for that antenna looked similar to the base for sticks at the tops of towers When they installed the HD, did they change the feeder, and move the analog feeder from the top, and put bends in it etc to bring it down to where that antenna was there I noticed some feeder expansion joints coming outside the tower, i assumed they usually stay within the faces of the tower Im in the uk, and im not certain theres many towers still active now with so many people having sky and cable, but there might be Theres quite an interesting tower in ireland, the old Atlantic 252 long wave am tower, theres a few videos about that Apparently its a 1000 feet tall am radio tower, so has the porcelain insulator at the bottom The most common towers you see in the uk today are cellular phone towers, there popping up everywhere on sidewalks, in parking lots They are about the diameter and height of light poles, and just have a fibreglass bulge at the top, theres no array of antennas to see, you cant see any individual panels They actually look like the laser weapons in the film star wars, just stood on end with there bottom buried in the ground Im assuming there either monopoles, or some kind of very small panel elements but encased in fibreglass Where the elements would be, that fibreglass bulge only appears to be a foot in diameter, maybe a little more, but certainly not 18 inches in diameter Theres only one mast that i know of close to my house, which is a truss mast, with panel elements on a triangular gantry at the top, and thats only say 80 or 100 feet tall The local police station has there own tower, that i think is a 3 sided truss with an array of 4 folded dipoles on sticks on every corner There may be a couple of monopoles up there too, but theres not much Thats exclusively for police use, so they don't have tv or radio broadcast antennas up there, or cellular phone antennas That tower again is only quite short, maybe 150 feet at the most It used to have a massive statue of some sort of owl on top of the tower, to deter pidgeons from landing on the tower If one day someone asked me to climb a tower to help them work, i probably would, no matter the height of the tower, but if i was asked to climb the stick, that would be a brown trouser moment, i dont like the idea of climbing what you call a slick stick, i think that would freak me out too much, but id be perfectly fine climbing the truss part of the tower
@ericdixon2898 4 ай бұрын
Know the identity of the transmission tower in Owenton Kentucky?
@jhettish 4 ай бұрын
I do know the owner and the TV station this tower serves but I don't give out locations. It's a security thing on my part and a potential liability on theirs. I don't even have access to the paper work associated with the job because my company is no longer my company. I sold it to an employee who had been with me for 30 plus years and his focus is two-way radio and not towers. When I was working my interest was towers, broadcast transmitters including their towers. John
@MapSpawn 4 ай бұрын
cool video man! I love watching stuff like this. Balls of steel!
@jhettish 4 ай бұрын
Thanks for your comment. I'm going to post some new (actually old) clips to the channel. John Hettish
@dougtaylor7724 6 ай бұрын
They make some of these towers that are only rated to three or four square feet. I wondered that if you had an antenna on it will it support a 200 lb man in the wind. I personally do not want to find out.
@michaelrobison703 6 ай бұрын
third card this year what's going on with the card or board up their man how am I going to get the live shot today at 3:00
@markmanning5683 8 ай бұрын
Couldn't get past the Coffee Loophole advertisement. 6-3-24 People, Stop putting Electrical Tape on Towers..... Cold Shrink is much better and long lasting. Shame Antenna Manufactures don't make Antennas with Factory Connects at length' s of 40 feet to 100 feet for towers like this.
@TheSchnibra 8 ай бұрын
Easy day. Far between here in WA state. You must have some good techs. Not asking for stupid shit on close outs.
@Tore_Lund 9 ай бұрын
What are those 2 ft long horizontal stubs mounted directly on the mast with chains at height with the dipoles? (and in the way for climbers)
@zachmorningstar9598 10 ай бұрын
Come back to work John!
@jhettish 10 ай бұрын
Thanks for the reply. I have retired now as of October 31, 2023. A week or two before 10/31 I was a young 78 and climbed about 150 feet in order to re-aim a microwave dish. I can still climb but I've sold my business, mt2w, to Clime when I retired. The business is now focused on two-way radio. When I ran it we focused on two-way radio and tower work. Mark was a partner in Middle Tennessee Two-way Inc (MT2W.COM) and it's his now. I have to say though I'm bored out of my head.
@dannyatwood9984 11 ай бұрын
Man!!!!! You are an amazing man!!!!!!!! I wish i had just half of the courage and skills you do!!!!!!! Hats off to ya bossman!!!!
@jhettish 11 ай бұрын
Thanks for the comment. This video is 11 years old. Back then I was much younger probably 66 years old. I retired in October 2023 and clmbed 150 feet and worked 3 hours. I was younger then at 78 years old. I love having fun.
@jhettish Жыл бұрын
I don't think I can answer that one. Tower work is not for thrills or for people with a death wish. It's just right for a young person or an old person (me) who like having to do different things on a regular basis. People often ask me why I've climbed communication towers. I merely tell them about antenna systems needing repair or beacon installations. For me the best part is that I am alive and recently became 79 years old and not in bad shape. I never smoked and I played a lot of adult sports up until my 40s. From 1983 I ran a business and had the opportunity to work on broadcast transmitters and many other things. I did a lot of IT work. Each day it was something different, something that would drive my wife crazy, but I liked a new challange every new day. Hard work, some physical, some mental. I've had a young guy at a climbing course who came up to me and said, "Mr Hettish, you're a "legend"" I replied, "You've got to realize one thing. Legends are never true." Another guy at another training course said something that I'd heared often. "Mr Hettish, I hope I can do the things you do when I get to your age." I replied, "I hope I can do the things I do at my age too." Get a job you love and you'll be on vacation every day. I was the (working) corporation president for 40 years then I brought a guy who'd been with me for 30 years. As for your original question, I think the most dangerous parts of tower work not paying attention and being out of shape. Our motto with my crews went someting like "Falling is not an option." I also used to tell my workers that every movement on a tower should be a conscious thought. John Hettish (now retired and climbed to the age of 78, so far.)
@dannyatwood9984 11 ай бұрын
Mr John, I'm speechless! I wish I had just a quarter of the courage and strength you have to do this!!!!! I will forever think of you Everytime I see a tower!!!!
@jhettish 10 ай бұрын
@@dannyatwood9984 Hi Danny, I was naturally attracted to things to climb when I was 6 or 7, don't remember though. I was 6 73 years ago so I guess that makes sense. I don't know why but I wasn't afraid of falling. At times I can remember feeling that I was in a bad situation but generally worked my way out of the problem. Some tower workers would drop whatever they were supposed to be working with. To me, tower work was just that, work. It was not for a thrill but it was about doing difficult jobs up to 1400 feet or more, climbing down and going home. After my Army time I was able to keep my cool during an emergency. In 2006 (if I remember that right) I was swimming with my wife in the catch-basin below a 100 foot water fall at a Tennessee State Park. There were other people also. At the base of the falls there was a large, somewhat flat multi ton rock lying at the edge of the basin and leaning at about 45 degrees which my wife liked to ly in the sun. There were a lot of people swimming and wandering around the basin while my wife and I were taking a "sun break". There were two 12 year old kids and one of the fathers under the fall and the second "dad", a little out of shape, was swimming across the 100 foot diameter basin to catch up to the other adult and the two kids. I saw him swimming but he was not a good swimmer.. Since I had been a SCUBA instructor 10 years earlier and one thing SCUBA instructors do when in open water is to keep a close eye on anyone who might need to be rescued. This does happen. As the poor swimmer was about 25 feet away from the other side of the basin where his kid and the other guy's kid were under the fall and out of the water the other adult called loudly, "Are you OK"? The swimmer replied "No" and started to go under. I had been watching him and was in the water about 15 feet away from him, using a very quiet stroke so as not to scare him. When I arrived where he was, I wrapped my right arm around his chest and spoke to him quietly, saying "I've got you buddy". His kid was watching and I didn't want to scare either one of them. I pulled the guy with a very quiet side stroke and got him the rest of the way to his friend and the two kids. After I left him I swam back to my wife on the rock. We stayed there for a while then I went to free-diving in the 12 foot deep basin. After my wife and I decided to leave we were packing up our fins and masks and other stuff to get in the car and leave. About this time I see the guy I had assisted in finishing his swim coming toward me. To my surprise the guy thanked me for what I'd done. I said I was glad to be where I had been and thanked him for letting me know. I really didn't want him to be embarrassed in front of his kid. I was very surprised that he had not been embarrassed because it's not "Tennesseean Like" to admitting to another that you had to be rescued. In Tennessee these things are ignored and even declared as never ever having happened.
@AmericanTowerTech Жыл бұрын
Apprentice tower tech. here. Appreciate this post!
@jhettish Жыл бұрын
Hi there and thanks or the comment. That's also a rather scary operation.. The gin pole weighed around 2200 pounds and we were lifting it to the next to last of the tower sections. If the lifting cable or something else would fail the two of us on the tower and those on the ground could have been killed. The guy and his boss on the ground running the winch are true professionals when it comes to rigging. To get back to the story, we had to remove three sections to get past the bent sections and then replace with new sections. That was me, much younger, mabe 65 :-). I had hired a contract crew and there had been a break of some sort and two of the contract ccrew had gone to New York and their ride back to Nashville had been delayed. We needed to get the gin pole up the tower. The only Number 2 man was me. The number 1 man was a very experienced gin pole and a lot of other things, tower tech. It took about three hours to get the pole to the top of the tower so that we could come down and leave. I've just retired at the age of 78. I became a two-way radio tech and tower tech in 1972 and finally moved my company to a guy who had been with me for more than 30 years. I retired in Octobeer of 2023. Don't remember the date. However the last time (so far) I had climbed was earlier in October 2023 because we were one tower man short. It was a small tower maybe 155 feet self supporting. I've loved my work for the majority of the 50 years. Now I'm still trying to learn how to be retired. John Hettish
@AmericanTowerTech Жыл бұрын
Sure hope I get to do this one day. Future tower tech here 🤘🏻
@Mr.5ame Жыл бұрын
Is lightning and rain the main threat of this job? I guess wind if a cable whips ya
@Rbinoy Жыл бұрын
Take care
@jhettish Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the comment even if the video was 10 years old. I'm retired now and haven't climbed since October 2023 to aim a microwave dish. I can still do this stuff but choose not to. Once again, Thanks. John Hettish
@jhettish Жыл бұрын
Thanks for continuing to watch my videos. I'm retired now(Reduntant?) now and haven't climbed a tower in ....................5 months now. The tower climbed 5 months ago was a mere 155 feet, (45 meters) tall. I was 78 then and will be 78 until I turn 79 about a month from now. Garrett was a wonderful employee. He never complained and did the majority of the climbing when I wasn't available or on the site. He left my company a few months after I'd taken a bad fall from a tree that had people wondering if I'd live. Yes I did live and continue to climb after that. My task on the tree was to rescue a kitten for my wife. The kitten didn't want to be rescued. I was something I hd done beforel but only on my own time and not commercially. I was 74 at that time and ended up spending 77 days in two different hospitals from the damage done. I shattered the right socket on my pelvis. Tower work was a major task for my company, Middle Tennessee Two-way Inc (MT2W). We were mainly in the two-way radio (police, fire, ambulance etc) business and tower work was a way to bring in more money, challengeing and enjoyable. I passed my company on to a guy who came to work for me over 30 years ago. Now I have no ownership of the company and I guess you could call me a "lay about". Thanks for the comment on tower work. If you can't fall from the tower there's really very little to fear. Garrett needed to bring in more money than he could with local tower work and has become a fiber optic technician. He took a job with a small company that had just been bought by a much bigger company with better payroll extras than I could ever offer. The company he went to work for climbs but Garrett had burned out on climbing and no longer has to do that. John
@trevordinsmore2194 Жыл бұрын
I don't see how you climbers can even walk with balls that big. Thanks for what you do...keep it up!!🪜😲
@OldManJenkins23 Жыл бұрын
Awesome, smooth landing. Beautiful old bird. Much respect to you, your tower vids bring me back to when I was a climber, '18-'22. That job beat me to hell and back and I started in my early 20s 😅
@stevensproull9388 Жыл бұрын
I really like the video...I am considering the purchase of the 80' version of this tower...
@jhettish Жыл бұрын
6 years ago, when I uploaded this video, I was 72, almost73, See if you can do the math and figure out how old I am now. Today is 11/10/2023 and it's been at least (let me think) 5 weeks since I climbed anything. October 2023. That was only 155 feet to realign a microwave antenna. I guess you could call me partly retired. John
@biffburley1 Жыл бұрын
I was just in Nashville/Franklin, saw the WSM Blaw-Knox transmitter, and was thinking of you sir.
@jhettish Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the comment. I climbed it for 20 years or more. Now the bad news. I'm retired. I'd rather be working thoughbut somehow being about 14 months from being 80 I probably should. Being as that is the most recent time I climbed a tower was about 5 weeks ago but it was only 150 feet tall and I spent about 5 hours from start to finish, hours of which were working with a microwave dish. No camera though. Officially I'm retired but I'm sure I'll climb something, somewhere.
@JG-tk7ov Жыл бұрын
I’ve been a climbing arborist for 22 yrs, Id like to have a go at this
@jhettish Жыл бұрын
Thanks, I'll get back to you tomorrow hopefully. I truly loved tower work but am retired now. John
@chrisrice2083 Жыл бұрын
No need to rush when your that high up
@jhettish Жыл бұрын
My favorite phrase to my employees went sometthing like, "On a tower every move is in slow motion." Thanks for the comment.
@jeramietraylor9662 Жыл бұрын
Can someone tell me what is the point in a hard hat.....if you fall your going to the spirit world....
@jhettish Жыл бұрын
Sure. As you climb you'll bump into things. I am wearing a white climbing helmet in most of the videos and it has black streaks and orange streaks as well as scratches. It's really easy to hit things as you climb or look down when some lose thing reaches out and slaps your head or in my case, my bald head. There's another reason more dangerous but not as often. Someone working higher up the tower might drop something and by the time it gets to the lower guy it's already leathal. The helmet also protects your head from the sun by providing a space between you and the plastic cover of the hard hat. It's also a bit cooler, not much, but a bit allowing air to pass through one side and out the other. So, not just because someone might make fun of you for taking precautions, it's easy to hit the cover over your biological computer. Often safety rules are the work of guys who come to work, sit behind a desk and later go back home, the hard hat rule is truly usefu. This is coming from a guy, me, who's been climbing for the last 50 years. Started 1972 and in 2023 still climbing when necessary. John Hettish
@jeramietraylor9662 Жыл бұрын
Well yeah you are right didn't think about someone being above you and dropping a tool or something my bad I can't even get up on top of my one story house lol...
@jhettish Жыл бұрын
About twenty years ago there were three people climbing a tower. They did their work and were descending when one of the upper guysd felt a wrench fall. I used the word "felt" because that's how you realize you've lost something especially while you're moving. The guy who lost the wrench was one of the upper two descending members of the crew. He yelled "heads up" and the bottom climber looked up. The wrench hit him in the head,, and he fell to his death. Twenty years ago I was already wearing a climbing helmet and people were making fun of me. Now when you see crew members on a tower it's very rare that they're not wearing full safety gear including a helmet, not one of the fifteen dollar hard hats. Our helmets usually cost over one hundred dollars. I appreciate your comment, John@@jeramietraylor9662
@josephcespedes1845 Жыл бұрын
As a tower climber myself much respect 🫡 brother I always watch your videos p
@jhettish Жыл бұрын
I appreciate your comment. Sometime in the future, if I survive for the next few years, I hope to have some more tower videos on the Channel. My Cub flight was a mistake when I uploaded it but it got so many views I thought it would be a good idea to leave it up. I have another channel where airplanes are shown. @jhettish1945 My comment on "surviving" can be decoded if you take 1945 and subtract it from 2023 or whatever is the current year. I'm a never smoker. John
@SuperDagod1 Жыл бұрын
I have one I’m gonna convert to led and make it a front yard light
@jhettish Жыл бұрын
LED would be a good idea. Using the original 660 watt lamps times 2 would not be a good idea. LED uses very little current (electric bill), the original lights would draw about 10 amps at every power up. Are you going to include a flasher module or just keep it running 24-7?
@douglasRbrown Жыл бұрын
Quick Tower question: Is $4,000 a reasonable rate to climb a 150 ft free standing rhon to hang 4 radio/ant. pre mounted to a stainless pole and one microwave link? I'm the tower owner.
@jhettish Жыл бұрын
The ERI rototiller © is a very popular FM broadcaster's antenna. I've worked with quite a few during the last 40 years. John
@jhettish Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the comment. Nothing lasts forever even though I'm trying to fly as long as Bob Hoover flew, not necessarily as good, just as old. I think I read that his last PIC was in when he was 87. that means I have about 9 more years if I'm lucky. I am planning to retire from my business and then hope to get some raw tower video, edited, on the channel. John
@asel51 Жыл бұрын
Have you ever used dielectric grease on the base of the lamps to help prevent them sticking over the years? Not that you’d want to get grease on your hands while climbing.
@jhettish Жыл бұрын
Hi there and thanks for the comment. I've never used it on beacon or obs lamps, never had to. Humidity is high here in Tennessee but probably much worse near the various oceans. My lamp replacement usually has to do with simply worn out filaments. I always use the "Long Life" lamps and they generally last for three to four years. I learned early in the tower business that I didn't need to replace lamps, busy work, and I started getting away from GE and on to Duromax lamps. Duromax is still in the lighting business but they quit creating incandescent lamps about 20 years ago. They allow a company in Mexico and in Canada to create lamps based on the Duromax patent. Oddly enough, the DuroMex seem to have less failure than the DuroCanada lamps. Just my observation but getting back to your original question I've never had the need to use dielectric grease anywhere but with one exception. I use dielectric grease on grounding attachments. John
@jaesindnb6197 Жыл бұрын
Missed you bud!!!!
@jeanmartin4533 Жыл бұрын
Why don't they test the warning lights before they descend the tower?
@jhettish Жыл бұрын
I don't think I understand your question but I do appreciate that you asked it. The video is about me, climbing that difficult tower in order to repair/replace the lamps. During the entire climb I'm complaining about how hard it is to climb. It's a real temptation to someone like me but now that I'm 78 I'm shying away from that type of structure. It's downright painful and I'm not joking. Eventually, like all individual repair tasks, the best part was talking with the owner and then, of course, sending a bill. Little AM radio stations really need all the help they can get just to keep the station and pay the people working there. Little town AM radio stations are still surviving if they focus on the local area but the future for those types of stations is bleak. By the way, testing the lighting system is basically waiting for dark and looking from the ground up the tower. The tower in this video is just barely in the airport area and tower lights are required to keep airplane pilots from hitting something that they might not be able to see. Main problem for towers under 100 feet and 1/2 mile from the airport is when airplanes take off or land at night. I hope this helps. John Hettish
@WoodysScaleModelGarage Жыл бұрын
Mr Hettish is there a code on painting towers such as distance between colors etc
@jhettish Жыл бұрын
Yes there is. There's a code book available on line. Follow this link: mt2w.com/Files/AC_70_7460-1L_.pdf The thing I called a book is really called an "Advisory Circular" and I think it's about 46 pages long. Interesting reading if you're curious about things like this. I'm constantly curious about things. I keep learning as a result. Thanks for the comment.
@glenmartin2437 Жыл бұрын
Thank you.
@jhettish Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the comment Glen, The 2000 lb Ginpole was quite hard to deal with but once in place all went well. There was a Ginpole accident just outside of Huntsville, Alabama about 20 years ago where the pole got stuck at some level and the hoist operator tried to "bull Doze" his way up the tower. The pole broke lose, it fell against a guy wire and the tower (1200 ft) fell with (I think) with three workers at the top who had been waiting for the pole to get there. Sad stuff.
@fredh54 Жыл бұрын
I can't watch this video without feeling my butt pucker. Can't watch more than a few seconds.
@mbrianperry1 Жыл бұрын
Wonderful to see you out and still having fun. Thanks for sharing.
@jhettish Жыл бұрын
I agree but it seems that a 77 year old airplane requires a lot of little work in between flights. I've got an AP making a simple repair so I can get it back in the air, where it needs to be. By the way, the Cub is one year younger than me. :-)
@iang3728 Жыл бұрын
I worked a gin pole building met masts for a few years. My one regret is not getting more video recordings of that job. Thanks for the video!
@jhettish Жыл бұрын
I have the same problem on this job. The crew that was in charge of getting this part done had two guys missing one day so I had to help the last remaining tower guy. It was Eric (tower guy), David (Winch Operator) and me, the "old" man. During part of that job two of my employees were in Nashville installing a new antenna for a broadcaster. When two of the erector guys got stuck without a plane back to Nashville from NYC I had to break off and work with the other crew. John
@JasonGeoffrey Жыл бұрын
Ii would be a good idea to test all the bulbs as soon as you get them so you don't forget later on. Nice view from up there!
@jhettish Жыл бұрын
I had to climb down, get another lamp and climb back up the tower. As if that wasn't enough, there were wasp nests within the tower legs around 40 feet and I had to climb by them twice. The drip holes in the old tower legs were a perfect size for an adult wasp. John
@JasonGeoffrey Жыл бұрын
Seems silly, why not just take 2 spare bulbs up with you? How much do you get paid to change a bulb? Seems like there would be a better way to do this without sending preople up hundreds of metres. Makes for a good youtube video though.@@jhettish
@jhettish Жыл бұрын
@@JasonGeoffrey It would sound really silly. I had taken a phoro of two beacon lamps at my shop intending to send them to you. The beacon lamps are quite large and taking two usually uses a lot of climbing-storage space. That beacon had two of those large lamps for normal operation. However many people think one is a spare. That's not the case. The beacon is supposed to radiate 2000 candella of light and the only way that can work is to have both 660 watt beacon lamps operational. Often we replace both ($50 each) which requires taking two beacon lamps on the trip up the tower. I believe this beacon still had one lamp working but the owner had asked both to be replaced. Thus, I carried two up the tower threw the original lamps down and then found out that one of the new ones was not working. Yep, I sould have tested before climbing but so far (50 years) I've only had that happen on a couple of times. Those things are expensive and I don't want to damage a new one during the climb. I have done that on a 1000 foot tower before. John
@JasonGeoffrey Жыл бұрын
Dang@@jhettish
@JasonGeoffrey Жыл бұрын
Hi John, thanks for the reply, makes sense you would only take what you need as space is limited. I guess sometimes things just don't go to plan :)@@jhettish
@Jefflantern483 Жыл бұрын
What is the song’s name played in this awesome tower vid!🙂🙂🙂🙂
@K6ORJ Жыл бұрын
Amazing! 73 DE K6ORJ.
@jhettish Жыл бұрын
Just saw a bunch of your photos. Quite good. K4WJZ
@douglasRbrown Жыл бұрын
WOW!!! Very cool!
@jhettish Жыл бұрын
I didn't want to upload that video to my tower channel but when I did it created over 500 views within a short amount of time, so I left it there. The Cub video had very little to do with tower work except that I was able to scrape up some money to become a share holder. Now I seem to be the only shareholder flying it. John
@jhettish Жыл бұрын
I definitely enjoyed the flight but haven't been able to fly since then. There are some relatively small problems and since I still work at 78 I am often tied up in work. My first flight was with my father in Rome New York, where he had been assigned as a Army Airforce Pilot. The flight was in an airplane identical to the plane I did the video in. It can be seen, second video at kzbin.info. It's about one minute taken by my mother of a 3 year old me and my 29 year old father. Also you can see the Cub in that video. 1945 refers to the year I was born. Yep, that's right. I'm probably old enough to be your father or maybe even your grand father. I do have one grandson who's 38 years old. I'm old but I like to have fun and am capable of working very hard. John
@gekkedirkie Жыл бұрын
Nice to see an upload from you. Enjoyed watching
@oldavguywholovesRCA Жыл бұрын
Good to see you still buzzing around John!
@dennisqwertyuiop Жыл бұрын
your higher than normal,you can look down at the towers,,nice to see some videos
@jhettish Жыл бұрын
I had meant this video to go to my second channel but you might like it anyway. I have another computer capable of editing video so I'll get some of my raw tower footage up soon. John
@AugustusTitus Жыл бұрын
Glad you're still around and enjoying retirement (if you can call it that)! 73 and best of luck!
@Keith_1 Жыл бұрын
Very good. Enjoyed watching that.
@jhettish Жыл бұрын
You were the first to leave a comment. I was the second. I'm glad you caught it. It was only meant for members of my LLC and wasn't meant to go to the tower channel. Hard for old people (now 78) to follow directions. :-)
@juanvaldez3666 Жыл бұрын
Nice video looks scary but I will give it a shot, would not mind trying that