The Scariest job in the World REACTION!! | OFFICE BLOKES REACT!!

[@pacldawson]

This needs to be the next "Office Blokes Try" episode. 🤣

[@officeblokemike7914]

No chance 😭

[@thomasbrett276]

Lol unfortunately that would probably be the last one too

[@officeblokemike7914]

You’re not wrong 🤣

[@WaterKingCrocodoan]

@@officeblokemike7914 Mike!!!! Love you love seeing you here!! I laughed so hard when you said “don’t come here there’s not enough room” 🤣🤣🤣😭🙌❤️

[@officeblokemike7914]

@@WaterKingCrocodoan 😂much appreciated WKA 👊🏻

[@stb55555]

I first watched this several years back and have watched it probably a dozen times and yet I still turn into a sweaty mess. Not enough money in the world...

[@Cole_mac]

Jeez me too. I was miserable. Once was enough

[@preacherx5gaming753]

Bill Burr is right, being a mom isn't the hardest job in the world.

[@Ocaljr]

What if the mom is a tower climber?

[@LarryBonson]

@@Ocaljr what if she is not?

[@G-Denz]

@@LarryBonson Then she doesn't have the hardest job in the world.

[@wfly81]

@@Ocaljr Then she's a mom with the hardest job in the world, but it isn't the mom part.

[@preacherx5gaming753]

Unless she has to climb 1700 ft on a tower to put in a DVD. Lift with your legs

[@robertfanion2815]

My biggest question is how the hell do the stay balanced up there with the giant pair of balls they have.

[@officeblokemike7914]

One massive ball either side of the pole I think!! Sounds familiar come to think of it 😂😂

[@Valaraukar8187]

That is the secret to not falling. Their huge huevos keep them in perfect balance so they’re not getting yanked this way and that by the tower swaying a solid 15 feet or better in every direction when they get caught up in a high wind.

[@Melissa-wx4lu]

That 30lbs tool bag is a counterbalance.

[@lecurymccray5804]

😂😂😂😂

[@primary2630]

Toolbag evens it out lol

[@scurra1163]

It amazes me how little fall protection they had. The tallest tower I had to climb as a radio tech was around 250', and the ladders had a steel cable running down the middle we clipped a fall arrestor to. It didn't slow us down at all except we had to pop the cable out of a little clip every 20' or so to let the arrestor through. And when off the ladder we had to maintain three points of contact with the tower at all times(usually two feet+lanyard). Free climbing it at +1300'? That's just insane.

[@gimpyrules6714]

I can't imagine even being 250 up Fook that shit mate lolol I used to be ok with jumping off like 30 foot cliffs into water, but even that now I'm like nahhhhh lol

[@YourMothersMan]

The top of the tower was 1700ft not 1300.. But still crazy lol

[@adamkant439]

It's because it's easier and you don't get as tired when you freeclimb and it also goes faster, even if you clip yourself to something it might brake or you might hit the metal anyway and die so the lines doesn't even matter at that point

[@willvr4]

It's all mental at that point. Above 70ft you're gonna die from any fall so there really is no difference other than wind.

[@dehonore]

Sitting in the pub near a window. Done with your climbing gig. Someone asks you what you did today. “See that tower? Free climbed to the top to change a lightbulb “. You wouldn’t pay for a pint or shot the rest of the night. And you shouldn’t have to!!!!!!!!

[@syrtycon7299]

I’m not necessarily scared of heights, but being totally outside that high up would scare the wholly hell out of me.

[@caterpillakilla]

same and...consider there arent heavy guage wires running along the tower so he can be harnessed and carabinered to the line and then just have to do it every 20 ft or so in case of an actual fall. then the body carabiner could be used for rest and tight security. i dont get this at all...never would imagine osha letting a dude basically free solo towers. with or without hazard pay

[@willvr4]

100%. I have a fear of falling, not height. Zero problem flying. But I won't climb a 20ft ladder lol

[@planetdearth6371]

"From here it's just another 60 feet to the top.." "WHAT"

[@kirkevenson8757]

I did this for 15 years working for a company in MD. I had to go through a 30 week training course before starting. Its definitely not for everyone, but I loved it.

[@steviejrr]

I wouldn't mind it, how much is the pay? Must be insane right?

[@kirkevenson8757]

@@steviejrr I started in 1993 at $22 an hour. When I retired in 2009, i was at $75.50 an hour, which is where this particular company capped you at. But there was always overtime if you wanted it at time and a half.

[@austinyun]

@@kirkevenson8757 ok good, by now it's gotta be pushing $100 base. I mean I still wouldn't do it but some of the salary numbers I've seen are ridiculously low.

[@kirkevenson8757]

@@austinyun That's true. I've seen salaries for this as low as $17 an hour to start. I worked for the same company my whole career, and was happy with the pay. I haven't kept up with the business, so I have no idea what they pay now.

[@carsonfelts6215]

@@kirkevenson8757 base pay at my company is $50,000 a year. We also have a 100% tie off rule though, so no free climbing

[@garyevans3421]

By law, anything sticking up even a fraction of that tower’s height has to have lights to let aircraft know it’s there at night!

[@gimpyrules6714]

Thank you captain obvious

[@iamlukie1826]

Need to watch the old movies of the iron workers running around without safety equipment jumping from beam to beam.

[@nancysexton4364]

I was thinking of that. There're films of the Empire State Bldg. being built in the '30s and guys just walking around on the girders w/o any safety equipment, or sitting down in the middle of the sky eating sandwiches and having a smoke. Some lunch break!

[@JKM395]

And getting paid like 2 cents an hour to do so. Crazy.

[@gimpyrules6714]

@@JKM395 hey that 2 cents was alot back then lolol But nah they forsure got paid more, not like it would be today though with OSCA and everything lol

[@JKM395]

@@gimpyrules6714 That was a bit of hyperbole on my part. They certainly didn't get paid what they were worth.

[@gimpyrules6714]

@@JKM395 you're right about that Also imagine how many were buzzed doing that shit, legends lolol

[@leslieg.9213]

I fully expected him to encounter a giant and a golden egg laying goose.

[@freestylebeats4280]

Wait what

[@benjamindenton9453]

@@freestylebeats4280 jack and the bean stalk

[@scottdebruyn7038]

"It's not the fall that would hurt you... It's that sudden stop at the end."

[@newgrl]

I'm a bit disappointed in myself for exactly how many times I tightly scrunched my eyes closed AND looked away from this video. As if just closing my eyes calmly wouldn't do the trick. Holy hell... just NO!

[@SpeckszDaBoss]

Love your guys reaction simply one of the best to ever do it. “From here he’s got another 60ft to get to the top” the way you guys said “WHAT👀” killed me. Great reaction guys

[@bunpeishiratori5849]

The thing is, we know these guys are super-experienced. But think about the fact that there had to have been a first time for every one of these guys.

[@Cole_mac]

Nice. I didn’t think of that. Jeez this made me ill

[@stevenbennett9425]

You also have to remember the guys that had to build that Tower

[@willvr4]

I've never been so happy that a video wasn't in HD.

[@cindimccullough6303]

My anxiety just went through the roof!! Those men’s balls have to be made out of kryptonite!

[@puebloking8280]

This one made my palms so sweaty can't imagine

[@M2161]

Imagine the wind at that height!

[@Kirinketsu_]

If it is not a windy day then theres not going to be much wind, there is also less wind during morning and evening, heat from the sun increases how windy it is, the big issue is how cold it get, if you stay up there too long your fingers, hands, arms, legs can become too cold making it hard to move and climb back down.

[@nottinghamforest07]

Haha, i actually do this for a living, but not to this height, so found this very interesting. It looks intimidating and scary, but it's really not as bad as it seems once you've done it a few times...

[@austinyun]

From what I can tell you guys make less than normal electricians. Why???

[@Modestasgailius]

how do they even train you for this

[@jamescutler8055]

I did this work in my 20s for the military. I am now scared of heights. A 6ft ladder gives me the heebee geebees. 56 now.

[@thebiglebowski8591]

this is my worst fear, I could not even watch this, i had a panic attack

[@ColinRichards1]

Those guys make so much money. Also there are guys who fix extra tall power lines, from being hung from a helicopter.

[@Mary-xc9dh]

I can't even imagine being the person driving the truck and waiting for them at the bottom watching let alone actually doing it. They have to be in incredible shape

[@diggity1039]

I used to do that, work on cell towers. Started at $22 an hour, wasn't enough to keep doing that shit.

[@ewrekzz7360]

OBD: "this is horrendous!" ... I agree. I scrolled down into the comment section and just listened.

[@theoriginalbreadcrumb]

Up is one thing, but going down tho, that is always the hardest part for any climb I ever did lol

[@ColinRichards1]

I know they say his tool bag is 30 pounds, but that's got to be nothing compared to carrying those massive balls up there.

[@EgbertWilliams]

That tower is in San Francisco. The winds coming in off the bay must be brutal.

[@bananas1318]

ive been doing rennovations for maybe 12 years now, and sometimes i gotto get ontop of roofs to fix windows on 2nd or third story houses... and even when im up there im nervous, not terribily but im def not comfortable, i could only imagine how scary it is doing this job.

[@lukeprocopio3584]

I always imagine that 2nd guy dropping the bulb at the top lol, but those guys who live for heights always amaze me, they aren’t bothered by anything and many want to get as high as humanly possible, they’re a diff breed for sure.

[@Tuning_Spork]

"We packed the imperial tool box. These fixtures are metric!" 😫

[@pierregibson6699]

🤣😂🤣🤣

[@Oroan93]

Nothing in this world or any other could get me to even remotely try climbing this high.

[@DarkSektori]

See the end of those ladder rungs how they're bent up at almost a 90 degree angle? That's done to prevent the Lanyard from "slipping off".

[@mvtepixels]

Alex Honnold - this must be fun for a warm up!

[@1OldBuzzard]

I should not have let the wife watch this video. This is what our son does for a living, though mostly builds them, not service them. If this isn't scary enough, building them is way, way worse. When building them they put bolt the different sections together as they go up, but, they don't tighten the bolts until the end of the assembly. My son said something about the way they plumb them up to make sure they are perfectly straight requires them to all be assembled before final tightening. He sends up photos and videos every so often just to scare the crap out of his mom I think. He was always terribly afraid of heights before this but the training they go through he said made him trust his equipment. They don't do any free-climbing (according to him at least) but man, that's still tough to do. He says it's rough to do on the body, but the view is so worth it. They get flown all over the country building the towers and loves the job. He works six weeks on and one week off. He has always been a bit of an adrenalin junky though. He was a combat Marine, then worked with me testing gas wells and oil wells, now this.

[@spacecatboy2962]

check out this one-----Tim Conway Harvey Korman "Fire At Will" (the cannonball sketch)

[@sheilabostic7106]

Oh those boys poor poor mothers🙏

[@flying_k1wi215]

I've always thought I would be able to do something like this as I'm pretty good with heights and I would be confident in the fall arrest restraints but man after watching this theres no way I didn't realize they would be free climbing parts of it and geez it must be alot harder climbing down.

[@TheSpydyr]

I absolutely love heights and would 100% stand on top of that tower at the end. But I'd hate the climb up. You have to keep your concentration on point the entire time and never miss a beat.

[@trevorpullen3199]

That moment when he was standing on the top and took both hands off to fiddle with the carabiner. Jesus Christ.

[@paulgoodrum5006]

If I'm not wrong, I think these guys earn about $60-70K per climb and only work a few days a year 🍻🍻🍻

[@justsomegirlwithoutamustach]

Sign me up

[@LadyLeaMarie]

I am so glad the highest resolution of that video was only 240p, I don't think I could have handled HD.

[@dee7353]

I have a good friend who had this job. Pay was great but they were never home. They are constantly traveling the USA from job to job. Not to mention working in all weather conditions including freezing weather and high winds. Imagine being that high up trying to work with high winds.

[@briantomczak21]

they can only climb while the power to the antenna is off otherwise they would get cooked from the inside out. worked with a guy who's job was in field service, and he had to go up there all the time for all those antenna's we built. his favorite thing to do was to stand on the top and take a picture looking straight down with his feet in the picture. once told me there were guys who always brought along a fluorescent light bulb, because if there was any power going to it ,it would start to flicker and they were out of there.

[@satsunada]

if you want an equally horrifying job, there are guys in the Rocky Mountains whose job is to install high tension power cables across mountains and ridges using a helicopter. One person flies you the power cable that could have hundreds of thousands of volts going through it and it's your job to sit on this stupidly tall tower on the side of a mountain and secure the line while the helicopter holds it for you. Then you are carried on a cable to the next tower to continue the process.

[@felixdom9693]

His ball made of steel, i freak out watching this my cow

[@jima1971y]

I have a friend that did that for a few years. Never asked him about it because 1, I'm sure he's been asked enough times already, and 2, a description isn't adequate. I also have/had a step-brother that's a captain of a tuna boat like on Deadliest Catch. His boat's name is the Bountiful for Trident foods. Not an easy job either, but he's been a captain for many years now so, it's not as physical any longer, but still dangerous.

[@sspp3065]

Lets not forget the swaying it is doing for a added benefit of excitement.

[@garyevans3421]

Someone had to put that ladder up in the first place! That hook he keeps repositioning is the tool bag.

[@peterhineinlegen4672]

I've climbed a ship's mast to the top. Not nearly as high as these guys, but still a few hundred feet up. And their tower doesn't move or have the flight deck of an aircraft carrier under them. Our antenna was at the very top, and you've got to bring your tools and everything you need with you.

[@laudanum669]

"Are You Hiring?" Personal Department "Not today but check back I'm sure we will have an opening soon".

[@pattaccone]

There’s an old video of the guy for the CN Tower in Toronto going right to the top and then jumping and dangling around on the top of the building from ropes He’s nuts 😂

[@Jg_nation]

Climbing down would be the hard part

[@tonygarat2953]

Yeah with the different places they had to manuever around without the ladders or rungs, going down would be even more terrible. I would just live there forever immobile

[@coreyrees840]

Big ol bag of “FUCK THAT” is what that is

[@vcwloves9864]

Base jumping or parachuting on the way down wouldn't be a possibility because they wouldn't be able to clear the width of the building. It's like how many people who attempt suicide from the top of the Eifel Tower don't die because they get caught on the way down. Ouch!

[@sliceofheaven3026]

Got to also give kudos to the people who built that tower in the first place.

[@johnashley2160]

This looks easy compared to going back down!

[@Mrader1983]

My friends dad did this for a living. Died of a heart attack. Crazy job

[@rjbgfx]

I'm glad you guys reacted to this!

[@cheriemelissa]

OMG. I could not take it! My legs and feet were were just tingling!!!!!!!

[@trouty42]

I've watched this video a few times now and it doesn't get easier. And that's just watching!

[@lucasharvey8990]

This is one of those jobs that are just ridiculously dangerous, and they require equally ridiculous people to do them.

[@ProfessionalTroll420]

I live an hour easy from the tallest radio tower in the world, North Dakota, and my knees get weak just looking at it

[@imme6954]

Just watching gave me a rush like a roller coaster ride and I liked it.

[@MoeDavinci]

Would a quick parachute on the climbers back work, they can deploy it like James Bond or something lol. That height is unruly 😂

[@EPain560]

Mike is thinking all his safety knowledge right now

[@Gibbs316]

This actually made me sick in my stomach watching lmao

[@tonygarat2953]

Hell no, I can barely get on a two story roof with getting anxious and shaky lol. Also for that last 60 feet couldn't they find a skinnier pole to climb up lol

[@jdanon203]

I remember the first time I saw this video.. sweaty palms for sure.

[@blacknap0le0n56]

Watch the old 80s videos of guys high diving into pools from massive latters... its nuts

[@jeremyjdl713]

I knew an older homeless gentleman that would go to my dads auto shop looking to sell tools he found. Never bought anything from him but my dad would give him cash if he helped around the shop or washed cars. He would always mention he used to do this type of work. He had pictures of himself up in the tower and everything, but he got into drugs and that ruined his life(according to him). He unfortunately died on railroad tracks few years ago. Rumor was he fell asleep on the tracks, but who knows really.

[@sydney4911]

You would think that base jumping would be the quickest and easiest way down, except their are guy wires all over the place which could cause a bit of a problem if your trying to get down with a parachute and the wind decides to take you on an adventure ride.

[@ReagonL0L]

This is a good example of why looking at incomes by in broad swatches doesn't account for high risk high paying jobs, which tend to skew in one direction.

[@dimetime35c]

Another crazy job is high voltage line worker. They have to basically energize their bodies to the voltage of the line or it will kill them.

[@JKM395]

Butt pucker: The Movie. I'm not even scared of heights, but daaa-aaaaang.

[@frankd1286]

How ... What.... I'm speechless. Wow!!!

[@lindholm3117]

Imagine if you are at the top and realize that you forgot a equipment.

[@michalkuban9888]

It's not just the tools he has to drag up, it's also massive balls of steel he has to carry.

[@shannonconner6602]

This had to be the most uncomfortable video I've watched on this channel. Sweaty palms and all. This was crazy to watch, those people who do that job are one of a kind madmen.

[@allureofgravity]

Absolutely fucking losing it watching this dude climb up there Lol

[@clipsedrag13]

Imagine being there for the first radio tower built... Or the job interview to do it in the first place🙃 "Cmon up son, let's go over your resume"

[@mikeadams2677]

I'm not generally afraid of heights, but just watching this had my butt sealing up. 😳 My grandfather said he was hired to paint a radio/tv tower once. He said, "I stress the word, 'once'". The announcer claimed there was no quick way down, well he was wrong. There is a quick way down. Highly unlikely he'd survive the landing, but he'd make it down quickly. Lol

[@gimpyrules6714]

BTW, he said he was free climbing early on, the thing he was attacking was the tool bag, it wasn't connected to him at all He was never connected to that tower other than with his hands and feet

[@jreyman]

You don't want to base jump off of one of these towers. You have a good chance of getting caught up in the support cabling. At even half that elevation you'd be screwed for a rescue. They had a hard time with the idiot, in 2005, that jumped off of the 2,050' tall KXTV10/KOVR13 tower (third tallest tower of this type, in the world) in Walnut Creek, CA, and he was tangled at less than a quarter of the way from completing his base jump. It took over 5 hours to get him down from just 200 feet.

[@NewYorksMostWanted]

A KZbin classic. Still reminds me how much of a wimp I am lol

[@mobus71]

So happy you gents did this video! I’ve seen it 20 times and each time I feel like my balls are in my throat.

[@firefighterchick]

Climbing at 90 degrees is NOT easy! I have had to do it as a firefighter. Nothing close to this high. It's almost completely your upper body that takes the brunt of it. You guys had me laughing so hard! I agree though! Can you imagine what the life insurance costs alone are?

[@jayman58016]

I have a horrible fear of heights and it took me at least 3x to watch this all the way through.

[@baslielteshome8263]

i want to see bill burr's reaction to this job and his following rant about motherhood being "the most difficult job in the world"

[@4211234]

They're gonna be so happy when they discover that HELICOPTERS FUCKING EXIST!?

[@Buckaroobrady]

I feel my nerves shredding just watching them climb

[@fairenoughmedia]

100%, totally legit vertigo just WATCHING this video

[@ESUSAMEX]

I saw a video like this and the narrator said the light bulb is changed once a year and the guy gets paid like $60,000 USD a year. With each year of my life, I get more and more dizzy with heights. I could never do this job.

[@afro4640]

It gets pretty cold up that high, I reckon.

[@LucidDream]

Yeah, I've seen this stuff before. Not a job I would want to do for sure. Makes my palms sweaty.

[@robbiedavis1611]

As a person terrified of heights I now need counseling Everytime he looked down my stomach just dropped

[@KilyanAustin]

"ey guys lets just do this without safety because itll be faster"

[@disneyfannrkrb]

i went to glass floor in Willis Tower (Sears Tower), and literally had to force my way on to get a quick pic, my brain wouldn't let me step on to it lol, scary AF