Think YOUR job is bad??

This is what greeted hubby and HIS crew this morning. Talk about a warm fuzzy, especially considering they HAD to climb regardless of the condition. He says he's never encountered a warning label on a tower before. GAWD he needs another job.

It's considered an extremely high risk job to begin with. One of those where the company automatically provides life insurance at no cost.

OSHA does have serious standards that they have to follow unless they want hefty personal fines. I honestly don't know what they would say about that, but considering these sites are inspected regularly, maybe it passed. Which, in itself, is a pretty freakin scary thing!

In this next pic, hubby is at the bottom of an inverted antannae. The tower it built like a 1,400 foot tall "T" and on both sides of the top crossbar, these antannaes hang unside down. He had to go to the top of the tower, climb out across the T at the top and then lower himself down the big orange antennae. See? He DOES need another job! (know what's freakier? Hubby is not the only one at the bottom of that antennae. There's another guy there with him! There wasn't even room enough for both of them to stand. The other guy is hanging in his belt. If you look close, you can see his feet and legs dangling)

By the way - regarding having to climb. They do because they are the ones who repair those suckers. Someone's gotta get up there if it's gonna be fixed.

There's a relatively new website devoted to the guys who do this sort of work. There's some pretty awesome pics on it. (if you click on these links, please know that there's music on the pages..and it doesn't load very well.

http://towerdog.com/

http://www.towerdog.com/towerdogForum/photos/tower_pictures/picture59.aspx

http://towerdog.com/twrdog_011.htm

http://www.towerdog.com/towerdogForum/photos/towerdogs/picture94.aspx

(that one is hubby - on that same tower where he's on the antennae. This time he is only 600 feet up, but he brought along a *toy*)

Maddwriter said:

Kind of reminds of how I heard once that NASA contracts the building of their rockets to the lowest bidder. That sort of thing instills a lot of confidence in the system. You'd think that no matter what's being built you'd expect the government to foot the bill to get the best guy possible, not the cheapest.

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I heard that in the movie Armageddon. ~laughing~