Another Nashville Burnout Part II

This is the second part of "Another Nashville Burnout". In this video youwill see the real damage to theFM broadcast antenna 1200 feet above the ground.

[@jamesbaxterandthebeachball7005]

Super cool stuff ... Totaly motivated me to hide under my couch for 3 days.

[@brewsnoop]

I can’t unscrew the cap on my soda bottle without dropping it, I can’t imagine the carnage I would cause working on an antenna tower.

[@Bward216]

brewsnoop lol I’d get all the way up and realize I forgot my tool I needed

[@slimwilly573]

@@Bward216 only once I promise.. it sucks climbing up and down just cause YOU forgot YOUR tools.. really we only carry like 2 maybe 3 tools most the time.. but climbing up 1200 feet you wouldnt go down to get something unless u absolutely had to that's a long climb

[@classified_stinger4573]

Do they have an option to base jump to get down? I remember climbing a tree when I was younger... hardest part was getting back down. Lol

[@oddjobkia]

Classified Secret they have the option to BASE jump but are not supplied any kit

[@mellodiexzon1482]

Investing in a drone now

[@orbitingeyes2540]

Shorted stubs don't really provide much protection against lightning, but are useful in filtering and impedance matching. The theory assumes that lightning is DC voltage, but it's not exactly. Lightning is a fast risetime pulse with most energy below 10 MHz, but some components up to 1 GHz. The stub causes a standing wave which focuses the high voltage at a resonant wavelength along the line. It is common to see pinholes at regular intervals along the transmission line after a lightning strike.

[@Lcanino]

Damn that’s high! I can imagine the endurance and stamina needed to climb these towers, incredible.

[@ricardorodriguez-se7tp]

Bro you have my hands sweating just looking at the video stay safe up their keep those videos coming.

[@TheMikeyB917]

My hands and feet feel like pins and needles watching this. Much respect!!!! Thank you for doing what you do!

[@matthewmartin7639]

I pass these towers every time I go up to my parents. Always wondered what it looked like from the top. Now I know.

[@SteveHolsten]

I'm glad there are good guys to repair antennas & towers. I couldn't climb that tower if a million dollars was waiting for me! Looking forward to your next video.

[@craigroberts6439]

One of the best tower videos I’ve seen so far. You guys are amazing.

[@turbo2ltr]

Cool videos! Thanks for posting!

[@ernestosalinas8231]

Thanks for the awesome video Mr. John.

[@jhettish]

Thanks Ernesto. I appreciate the comment. John

[@ReverendJolson]

Wage gap explained

[@andrecpu]

🤣😂🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂 So true!!!

[@dilldowschwagginz2674]

Lol. Priceless

[@donedeal2057]

Good video. These videos motivated me to get into this work. Now I have a smile on my face everyday.

[@jhettish]

When you like your work and you're on vacation every day. Just be safe, work slowly and deliberately and don't let anyone, I repeat, anyone, tell you to hurry up when you're on a tower. John

[@zincman1995]

Good video. These videos motivated me to get into (something besides) this work. Have any crawl space openings? You're doing real men's work here and I'm sure for 1 million a year. Where's the parachute?

[@glasstronic]

"Muscle cramps are common in this business" Hmm. I'd be needing a diaper. that's toooo high. Respect you earn, you've EARNED.

[@dallaspujol7196]

Got love all them good anchor points.

[@KeepingitAnalog]

Always happy to see your videos!

[@poppiarlin5612]

Great videos

[@adrianornelas6447]

Every time he looks down, it scares the crap out of me.

[@norms3913]

Dont you just like the swaying motion from that height ? Lol

[@jessielee1369]

I'm sure you know this. Take mustard packets with you. When you start to cramp squirt one or two in your mouth. The vinegar, salt and turmeric helps to eliminate or reduce cramping.

[@Zombie_Milk]

Jessie Lee bruh you hear that wind? They ain’t getting no mustard packet out and having the dexterity to open it with gloves

[@curtishall93]

@@Zombie_Milk this had me crying when I see this comment very true bro 💯

[@cardbored_]

@@Zombie_Milk squirt bottle then

[@germx1488]

I did Derrick weld inspections free climbing with pelican hooks and man did it feel good to step on solid ground the body positioning is murder cand imagine another 900 ft lol much respect sir

[@jblue3163]

So cool! I use to live right around the corner from those towers!

[@RevBoose]

Yyyyyyyyyeah, no. Thanks for the video, I’m glad you do it and that the world is not counting on ME to do it!

[@lewiemcneely9143]

I'd be slow and deliberate all right. Crawling away just as deliberately as I could get. Calf cramps were bad enough. I could bounce them out like a ballet toe dancer but when a THIGH cramp hjit, it's it just howl and wait. My Sweetie came in and watched for about 20 seconds, wheezed 2ice and hit the door. I've watched a BUNCH of your videos and it still gets to me. GOOD WORK ALL YALL! Thanks, John!

[@jhettish]

Thanks Lewie. Friday I was working only fifty or sixty feet above the ground using my customer for ground support. We get far enough behind that I have to do that sort of thing every so often. The tower was built in 1951 or 53 and is a bit awkward to work on. I found myself doing all sorts of gymnastics mounting a side arm that weighed about 40 pounds and a 30 pound antenna. I'm hoping the camera shows some of the effort. If it does I'll probably publish it before too long. It is good though to be in great shape at 73. John

[@lewiemcneely9143]

POST IT, John! It'll have to be good. I don't care if you were prone on the ground, it'd STILL be good! I'll watch!

[@SteveHolsten]

I hope it's good enough to post John.

[@jessielee1369]

John Hettish, you are 73?! As in years?😁

[@KSparks80]

Do they put a weight limit on each of the 3 support arms up top? Or is it something you need to know, or figure out, before putting guys on it? Thx.

[@unfitking8663]

Been doing this for 6 years but on the wireless side. I read a comment about you guys making 2 to 300k a year? I get lucky to push 100k. You broadcast guys get hazard pay I’m guessing? Idk but I’ll drop the wireless side and hop on that wagon you guys are pullin making that kinda bread. Stay warm and stay 100.

[@hitthestreets8186]

good video mass respect

[@elitedavidhorne8494]

Cool job! Do you use drones to to scout the tower before climbing?

[@donalfinn4205]

Would be nice to know what mast it is so that I can look up a picture of it John. We don’t often get to see the whole mast or tower. Thanks.

[@rickdaystar477]

I've worked on steel smokestacks about a third as high as you work putting air quality sensors in place and had a ladder welded in place to climb but getting up that structure like you do would wear me out!

[@JuanGarcia-bd1rm]

How long does it take to climb up and down not including the task? Ik there’s variables like height but like a tower like this?

[@johnteague136]

Good luck out there, can't wait for next video, don't pull no John Teague's..lol...take care! 😊

[@lauriemcewen7156]

You are 1 amazing guy. My goodness

[@Tore_Lund]

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)

[@Hey_its_Koda]

Crazy. My palms get sweaty near heights. Hell when i visited the grand canyon i couldnt even walk near the cliffs.

[@spaceman7832]

Curious. Was this the OTA tower off I65 North of Nashville near Old Hickory Exit?

[@richf2834]

How long does it take to make it up there in the first place ?

[@frankroberts9320]

So, there's a gas barrier at the base of the antenna? Every FM I engineered pressurized all the way up to the top of the antenna, with a popoff valve on top to permit purging the system from the ground by cranking up the pressure to 7-8 PSI for a while. Looks like lightning damage, followed by water ingress. I've seen several ERI antennas with similar damage to interbay sections.

[@sux2bu37]

How do I get into this and what does the starting pay look like?

[@adprince89]

Why are you changing between channels 1 and 2 on the radio's?

[@wendellrountree4899]

This shit would make me have nightmares I'm terrified of heights, you got a set of brass balls dude..

[@RY-rm4ve]

My knees are shaking and palms are sweating watching this sitting in my kitchen. Holy crap that's high.

[@jhettish]

Be careful in the Kitchen. There are a lot of dangerous appliances in there and kitchen chairs are always unreliable. :-) Once used to tower work it isn't that bad. John

[@wombatstalker9566]

Those squeaks are the very sound that gives me chills. Stainless steel on the tower. "Send up the wd40 its fuxking seized"

[@Mr.clintontoney]

Have you ever dropped any tools or equipment?

[@TailgateTech]

Great Channel, I love watching your videos. I pass this tower and its brother every time i go to/through Nashville. Out of curiosity, I think its next to this one, what is the story with the decommissioned tower next to it?

[@vtwinbuilder3129]

Tailgate Tech it’s probably an old analog tower since TV is all digital these days.

[@Pulse87dotca]

@@vtwinbuilder3129 They used the same towers in my area when changing to digital. What's the sense in buying new property, building a new tower and transmitter building, etc to change to digital when you can just swap out the analog transmitter for a digital one? The antennas are the same regardless.

[@katmanclancy]

What was the bar with the splines on it for?

[@1pcmedic]

How many minutes is the climb up?

[@poppiarlin5612]

I believe that is I-24 below. I used to travel that highway a good bit. Coming back on I-24 I knew once I saw these towers in the distance I knew I was almost in Nashville.

[@77confusedzombie77]

Woop Woop another job well done

[@burtvincent1278]

Flying an airplane doesn't bother me until I get over a tower and look down. For some reason that connection, like looking over a cliff and with how high you are always spooks me.

[@samsummerall5309]

Sh...t, you guys are a different breed. Be safe

[@stanleybadams]

The shorted stub is for impedance matching, the outside is grounded to pass lightning to grd

[@georgehill3087]

How often do you accidentally drop tools down?

[@battlestarone]

What is considered a safe amount of watts erp for engineers to work around,as i suspected most times you cant turn transmitter off.

[@RealTalk532]

@@owlman4167 that station must have very high Arbitron ratings. That station need some competition to take some of that strain off the RF.

[@Alien300Blackout]

Are these the towers off I-24?

[@robertmitchum2972]

Great video as always guys. Was the burnout caused by lightning? And was there other damage to the antenna? Just wondering why it had to come down and be rebuilt. Thanks again for another thrill packed episode in “The amazing adventures of Towerman”

[@jhettish]

Coming to the ground to be rebuilt was a manufacturer's suggestion. Personally I would have taken it down to the closest arbor (the three support arms) and worked on it right there. Of course I specialize in RF devices something that's kind of rare in the tower business. I just happen to climb also. The arbors are about six feet wide and forty feet long and given decent weather a good place to lay things out. I'm guessing that the reason the factory crew took about seven days was due to the necessity to take the old antenna all the way to the ground and probably bad weather. The weather has been quite difficult here until this week. I hope the worse is behind us. We are way behind. John

[@jhettish]

The antenna had been damaged for more than a year. I believe it had been damaged by lightning but a sweep indicated an excellent standing wave ratio. The engineer didn't call us back to inspect the antenna until further problems occurred a year later. It was probably hit by lighting in February 2017 but there may have been some other cause. I estimate the antenna to be about 30 years old but that may not be accurate. It may be as young as 15 years. The station has changed hands several times so there's no easily found record. John

[@isettech]

Due to the location of the fault, I doubt it was lighting. The bullet tube construction of the line has a failure mode where if a little tarnish builds on the metal interface it gains resistance and heats. Heat increases the rate of oxidization of the joint. When a system is pressurized with nitrogen, the end often traps air which has the oxygen that starts the process especially if there is some moisture. Higher power installs involve pulling a vacuum to evaporate and remove moisture and purging with nitrogen several times to make the joints last longer. Once a joint has enough resistance, the overheating becomes severe and the connection melts and the resulting gap strikes an arc which then burns back the center and then arcs to the outer tube burning the hole seen from the outside. At this point the transmitter is starting to see high reflected power. The initial arc on the burning center conductor produces very little reflected power. When it arcs to the shell the reflected power increases and transmitted power drops off rapidly. I didn't do this more than a couple of years and had only one burnout on a FM broadcast station.

[@kevincoleman514]

The stub at the top of the FM antenna is not to be a lighting arrest or as the video detailed. It is to provide the correct impedance to the last splitter that feeds the top bay.

[@XMguy]

I live very near Nashville. What radio station is this? Call letters please, if you know. Thanks and keep climbing! :)

[@Nargaroth]

I love these videos, makes my palms sweat like crazy.. I was wondering, is there a reason you guys don't tether the tools?

[@AlphaFlight]

Itll just slow them down.

[@jhettish]

We have too many tools to tether them all. It's been quite some time since I dropped a tool from a tower at any height. I haven't asked and probably should if my guys have dropped any also. I'm guessing they haven't. We have a big incentive to not drop our tools. We need them. If your like me you probably have a drawer somewhere where you throw computer or audio cables that are not needed. Usually when I finally need a special cable I'll open the drawer and find that the cable I need is tangled with all the other cables. When multiple tools are tethered and put back into what we call "nose bags" (Canvas bags) the tools and separate tethers seem to mate like a pit of snakes creating one big mess. It's best just to be incredible focused on the work at hand and the tools needed. John

[@Nargaroth]

Understood, thank you! Keep up the videos. I love them.

[@lesblack8036]

@@jhettish What is the hourly wage to have the balls to do this crazy job it has to be $200 + an hour?

[@radiowave1849]

@@lesblack8036 Local companies start at $17 an hour going up to $30. It's not a well paid job unfortunately

[@steveelson2999]

These tower climbers have balls the size of an elephant! Kudos

[@lemonaid8678]

Me: I start a new job today! Coworker: aight get ya gear and start climbing. Me: guess it’s back to the unemployment office.

[@brendendale2616]

Oh My God! That tower is ridiculously high; surely it has to be hard to breath all the way up there. I have worked out however what that clanging noise is, it's Garrett's balls of steel hitting the pole! Go Garrett.......I will never see the world from the same places you do, I can't believe you can climb that bloody high and not shit yourself.

[@brockstout2194]

Biggest question how's the rescue plan if something goes terribly wrong you only have a little bit before you can die. Don't have a controlled decent device?

[@spiritwolf522]

Is this a directional array? What did they put on the elbow? Looks like a small dummy load.

[@ethanlamoureux5306]

Yes, that’s a dummy load. Watch the first part video to see them putting on the dummy load to test the feed line.

[@jhettish]

The thing on the elbow is in fact a 50 ohm load. I had Garrett place it on the adapter so that I could check the health of the feed line. I swept the line wiht my Anritsu 365E. Most arrays in broadcasting, if not all, are for AM stations. This antenna is for an FM station and while it's directional it is a stand-alone antenna and not a member of an array. John

[@Bward216]

What is with the poles sticking out right in the path you have to climb?

[@slimwilly573]

Those poles are either mounts or part of the other antennas mounted there, and unfortunately when you go to mount usually the company that hires you tells you the area and which way it needs to face so you stab it where they want it and try to make it as easy as possible to get around for the next guy but sometimes it's not possible

[@jaimerodriguez9141]

And what caused that damage to the line?

[@rubenp8750]

Take some mustard packets up with you. Eat some when you get cramps it really works.

[@chrislochner4038]

I'd have a brain cramp for sure.

[@johnteague136]

Nice view...

[@jhettish]

Did you notice the Orange antenna to the right with the gray pole on top. That's where the old Channel 58 analog antenna used to be mounted. You and I spent several days at the antenna's input point which included one day (when I was much younger, 58 or 59) I was put in the situation where I had to climb it twice. Them was the days. John

[@billmoran3812]

What are those small arms that are attached to the mast? Some kind of parasitic elements?

[@jhettish]

Yes. This antenna is directional and those are in fact parasitic elements.

[@xxch4osxx]

What brand of portable radios are you using, Motorola I'm guessing?

[@jhettish]

I've used Motorola in the past. We were one of the first Motorola Dealers in Middle Tennessee. Now, everyone knows that Motorola had been selling two-way radios for years prior to 1988 but they had no dealers, just factory paid salesmen. When Asian and cheap American products started to show up Motorola kept selling with the high paid salesmen but as things got a little tougher they started creating (non-Motorola owned) dealers. That's when we became one of the first in Middle Tennessee. Years go by, we could not sustain our company by selling Motorola exclusively so we added other product lines. Then one day, out of the blue, a Motorola sales person shows up in our Murfreesboro shop and announces that Motorola was pulling our dealership. The excuse given was Motorola was looking to create large dealers and get rid of the small dealers. Actually they had been playing their normal games and had made another shop a dealer probably due to local government pressure. Prior to this, if we had gone exclusively Motorola we could never have kept our sales up but until the announcement we had been selling that brand pretty well. Our other brands were Kenwood, Harris and Hytera (among others) were quite popular and sold very well. So, the basic answer to your question is that we're using Kenwood TK-3160 (UHF) and on towers with TV transmitters we use Kenwood TK-D240V (VHF) portables capable of doing both digital and analog. We are licensed for the UHF channels and use the three VHF channels not requiring licenses when using VHF radios. Why UHF or VHF. UHF TV transmitters cause the portable UHF radio receiver to become desensitized due to the closeness of the frequencies. VHF portables operate on frequencies much lower than the TV channels and are immune to desensitization. Desensitization means the receivers lose sensitivity and thus receive range. Don't we turn off all the transmitters before climbing towers? The only time TV broadcasters turn their transmitters off is after midnight and that's usually when we're working on their antennas specifically. During normal daytime tower work it's easy to stay out of the TV antenna's potentially (but not likely) damaging field while we work on other things. If you're not near the antenna, within reason, it won't hurt you. Often we're more than 200 feet away from a transmitting antenna when climbing. That's a lot and I hope you read all of it. John

[@xxch4osxx]

@@jhettish I appreciate your reply and yes I read all of it! Sounds like Motorola is a bit of a bully about getting their way, never knew about that. I was wondering about being close to high power antennas. Some of those radio towers are pumping 50,000 to 100,000watts of RF radiation. I hope there isn't any long-term effects of being close to that kind of power output!

[@jhettish]

@@xxch4osxx Hello again. When TV or FM stations talk about or advertise 50,000 or 100,000 watts they're talking about Effective Radiated Power (ERP). There are two forms of ERP but I'll leave that alone for now. ERP takes several things into account but mainly it describes the distance the signal can travel with significant strength. The way it's calculated the idea takes into account transmitter actual power, the percentage of loss of that power in the feed line (Coax) connecting the transmitter to the antenna and the "gain" of the antenna. Antenna gain has nothing to do with amplification. It's all about focusing energy in order to cancel useless radiation and adding it to the useful radiation. That way an antenna theoretically (and in reality) can cover an area as though the full 50K or 100K were actually being directly connected to an antenna that had no gain. It's all about saving electricity (in a sense) but getting the most bang for the buck. Here's a simple example. If I have a transmitter capable of putting out 300 watts on a given frequency and I use coaxial cable with 1db of loss every 100 feet and it takes 300 feet of coax to reach the antenna the resultant actual electrical power reaching the antenna would be reduced by half. In other words the power reaching the antenna would be 150 watts if measured by a watt meter. If that antenna has what is known as "unity gain" then the ERP would be 150 watts. However if the antenna has a gain of 3db the ERP would be roughly 300 watts once again. Mathematically it's not exactly correct but let's consider the idea that the antenna was designed to focus the energy and is advertised as a 6db gain antenna the ERP would be 600 watts. We have 1/2 power loss in the coax but then the overall gain after the 3db loss of the (very bad) coax causes 1/2 actual electrical power, 300 watts, to become 150 watts. However the 6db gain design of the antenna brings the increases the effective (theoretical) power to rise all the way to 600 watts. As for the Electro-Magnetic Exposure (EME) danger to workers, EME is considered non-ionizing radiation, meaning basically that whatever enters a person's body does not stay there. Ionizing radiation, that that being radiated by radioactive material like Plutonium or even uranium enters the body if sufficiently powerful, and stay there for various periods of time.

[@jhettish]

I could have added an analogy. If you have a short sleeve shirt on and stand about 6 inches away from an incandescent light bulb your arm will get hot. However when you move about three feet or even less from that lamp your arm will cool down. If what the lamp put out was radio active and not non-ionizing radiation you would probably not feel anything but your exposure to the radioactive material would be absorbed and would stay in the body potentially causing all sorts of problems. I don't think EME (non-ionizing) has yet to be a proven health risk with the exception being direct bodily contact to the radiator of Electro-Mechanical Energy, like the light bulb, a camp fire or the sun.

[@gatesmw50]

@@jhettish The inverse square law.

[@richh650]

This is un-freaking believable. My hat is off to them!

[@tijnsnijders]

Even knowing you are fully secured, my stomach drops when you switch hands and move your head... You guys are nuts ... Not gonna state what I am thinking all through this vid... Don't want to jinx anything, but let's just say I am glad my ass sits on a chair all day 😂🤣

[@lauriemcewen7156]

I held my breath for Garrett the whole time

[@dilldowschwagginz2674]

You have to REALLY trust your harness gear in order to be able to do this work. I done industrial work at much lower heights (100' and less) and I never really felt that I trusted my hooks, harness and lanyard. I would have trouble functioning at altitudes that these guys work at.

[@willrobinson4441]

I know exactly the area where those towers are!! Those are some VERY tall ones just south of I-24. Nerves of steel for sure!!!

[@Twelve20Inc.]

Every time I pass them I look to see if I can spot anybody climbing.

[@jma5177]

Amigo, essas torres balançam lá encima????

[@mikecline1973]

My second day on the job I was changing the light at the very top. Popped my cherry!

[@wyattearp190]

30 feet from what? Space?

[@duxberry1958]

how long would take to climb

[@jhettish]

Obviously it depends but this one would take around 50 to 60 minutes. It's not a bad tower to climb. There are towers I've climbed that were difficult to say the least. This one is well maintained and no one has tried to secure cable to the climbing ladder. John

[@lindabingham394]

me 3 days eyes closed

[@hhdeng]

Cramps are common. Haha. Yea my butt muscle is cramped up from being scared as hell looking down. You sir if i ever see you beer is on me. In sure OSHA will be coming up to do inspection with you guys. Haha

[@royamberg9177]

That looked like it was well done. Fried.

[@jhettish]

Well done on an antenna is definitely the opposite of rare. This one was a crispy critter at the burn point. John

[@norms3913]

It's extra crispy

[@thats_my_comment]

they'll find it cool that these guys are climbing this particular Tower I've always been amazed how tall they are cuz I would pass them as a kid when we would go south on 75 to vacation in Florida

[@jhettish]

This video was from April 2018. In June 2018 I took a fall from a tree while trying to rescue a kitten that didn't want to be rescued. For that I had my pelvis repaired and spent 67 days in two different hospitals. Prior to this I had only spent one night in a hospital and that was a sleep study I never should have taken. Today is December 17, 2021 and I'm about 96.256 as well as I was prior to the tree fall. Trees are dangerous. I've been SCUBA diving since I was 18 and as an instructor I used to take students to Panama City Beach for the open water part of certification. I'm also certified for Cave Diving. Last time I did any diving at all was in 2013 in the Keys. In 2013 I was 68 years old. Today I'm very close to 77 years of age and still capable of diving, climbing, flying an airplane or running but my wife brought so many kittens home there's no way we can get away due to the animal population. The kittens have somehow become Cats. My animals give me a lot of pleasure and they trust me. I'm not going to kill them because they've become inconvenient. With more than a couple of animals and no relatives it's almost impossible to get someone to feed them while I'm in vaction. So, I keep working and stay at home or at work. I do enjoy my work.

[@johnteague136]

Hope you are well.. been a while since I heard anything out of you.. just had a birthday turned 59 .. thinking about a career change .. light bulb changer.. bright idea .. but someones got to do it😏😁👍

[@jhettish]

Actually I'm doing well. I've not succumed to Covid 19 yet and hope to bypass it completely. I haven't climbed any higher than 950 feet since September 23, 2019. I was much younger then, only 74. I've been doing a lot of antenna sweeping and work with every job being the burnout from hell. I'll give you a call soon. John (the other John)

[@johnteague136]

@@jhettish glad to hear.. I have been essential.. so I’ve been fortunate to have been able to work the whole time.. I am really looking into climbing aspect .. the training and getting certified even if I don’t get climb a tower with the younger tower dogs🤣🤣🤣

[@fredh54]

I can't watch this video without feeling my butt pucker. Can't watch more than a few seconds.

[@CatsMeowPaw]

3:41 About those anchor points... they're just welded to the pole. Do you ever worry that the welds might be weak after years of exposure to weather?

[@keyboardoperator802]

Welds don’t just get weak with time. A weld is either weak from the start or strong permanently. A proper weld fuses the two metals together completely turning them to one.

[@dozer1642]

CatsMeowPaw thus pole is made to higher standards than anything welded on the frame of your vehicle. Do you ever worry about traveling down the freeway at eighty miles per hour?

[@patrickconnell2656]

Dozer1642 nice point. But sometimes I worry when I go 88 miles per.

[@timothy7754]

Ball of a steel. Ied get to the top. But hard for me to get back down

[@jht09]

Just curious is climbing these towers a high paying job like $100000 a year or not so high paying

[@jht09]

Thanks in advance

[@slimwilly573]

Not starting off for someone green, but even then your gonna make pretty good money if your willing to work for it

[@ps3baws]

This is giving me double anxiety 😬

[@texas15013]

...so now you’re at the top and your stomach starts rumbling.. what do you do now? Lol

[@DeathBatMaggot45]

Omg Idk how in the world y'all do this work. I'm nauseous just watching.

[@resinadao502]

DeathBatMaggot45 it pats very well

[@lemonaid8678]

RESiN S12 it don’t pay enough for me To get up there. I get shaky in a tree stand.

[@kollak01]

Bet this guy never has to search for the ten millimeter at home. Prob never drops a single tool or nut/bolt.

[@RealTalk532]

Jesus Christ another Nashville burnout that station must have very high Arbitron ratings they need another station to compete with them. here in the San Francisco Bay area we have about 4 or 5 pop stations to compete with one another so there won't be any burnouts.

[@chrisyeary9874]

This is probably a stupid question but why not put an elevator that runs the entire height of the pole. Just figured it migjt be safer but either way my hats off too ya cause I have a mild fear of heights and this had me like oh shit.

[@blairmartin2101]

Chills just watching.

[@jhettish]

The videos on this channel were not intended to portray this work as a thrill sport or even dangerous. The videos were designed to show how and what the work was all about. I wasn't trying to "scare" anybody but regardless I do appreciate your sharing your response to the video. I remember an email from one tower worker saying he preferred to climb at night because he couldn't see the ground. My response was, "You need to find another job." People have asked me, "Doo you look down?" Of course I do. That's where I work. Sure, climbing is what most people categorize this occupation with but "climbing" is merely transportation to the work site, or in better words, to the elevated level where work needs to be done. It can be somewhat painful and/or uncomfortable since we do it year around. I try to teach my workers the electronics side of the work as well as the physical part. When I started this channel on KZbin I had to categorize the subject. I figured there would be a category for "employment" or "career" or something like that. The only categories were a pull-down list and the closest thing I could find was "educational". From that point on I tried always to pin the video's title on what we were doing in that video. In other words I would create a "story-line". I did that the majority of the time editing more than 100 videos. A couple of years I received an injury that required me to learn how to walk again (at the age of 73). The injury had absolutely nothing to do with my work. I fell from a ladder while trying to get into a tree and "rescue" a cat who wasn't all that interested in being rescued. I've recovered and even after injuring myself a couple more time playing I'm back at work again and haven't climbed a tower in over a week now. I was fond of telling people that I hadn't been higher than 950 feet since September 23, 2019 but then adding I was much younger then, only 74. John Hettish (long because I felt like typing)

[@jackiehunt10]

I would be hooking both them harness up in the same 1 hell with 1 but first off I ain't going up their lol

[@stanleybadams]

This antenna is not directional, unless you men another antenna on the tower.

[@2string861]

Does anyone know the "official" title of this job? Im 15 and I'd love to have a job like this someday since I love radio but Im not smart enough to be an RF engineer 😂 I just cant figure out what this job would be called besides "tower climber"

[@jackbyrd4921]

You can do it young man put your mind to it it will happen.

[@bigjer2543]

Tower Rigger

[@gatesmw50]

Wonder what a repair like this would cost ?

[@williamlaw6109]

You guys don’t carry an adjustable wrench? That would’ve fixed the lightning rod problem

[@JM-yx1lm]

Do you have to climb the entire thing or is there an elevator up to a certain point?

[@rupe53]

J M … no elevator, but they might use a boom truck to reach the start of a manual climb since ladders seldom go to ground level. (keeps the kids off)

[@slimwilly573]

I personally haven't seen a tower with a elevator I would imagine that to be a stupid tall tower, I've climbed 1000ft plus a few times, double clipping the whole way and on a guided tower it tends to move/ dance when the wind blows.. but for towers that have no ladder at the bottom we usually have one on the truck or if possible 9out of 10 times we just climb whatevers around to get to it

[@ErikPAPATIE]

Is never find the damage always is sad is dismantled all antenna for one trouble and on top of the antenna is a ftb310 or 308

[@jhettish]

I think they did the right thing by rebuilding the antenna. I only wish I could have been there to watch and see if they would be doing anything different than I would. John