And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Not for $5 a foot. When I was in the Navy stationed in Greece, back in the late 60's, we had the tallest man made structure in Greece on our Transmitter site. 600 foot tall radio antenna. 2nd class PO climbed it up and down in 20 minutes. We all thought he was crazy.
I have done that on a few radio transmitter towers. What's fun is when you get to the top and find out the housing has rotted away so it needs replacing as well. The highest tower I have climbed was just under 700 feet.
BTW: that is a nitch market. There are not too many people that will make a climb. I was flown from Atlanta to LA to swap out a bulb once.
Did this on a 800 footer in the early '90s. Once. I was young and fit. $2000 payday if my now old and feeble brain remembers correctly. The man who regularly did the work had a foot injury from playing softball. Did not do another. Cool hanging around the top after changing the bulb. Very serene.
I used to work with a retired master chief who enjoyed climbing the loran towers on an island near midway. said he could not understand it. thousands of miles of water all around and here he was putting an anti collision beacon light on top of loran antenna towers in the middle of the pacific ocean. said he was higher in altitude than the gulls flew at.
What is worse - going up or coming back down? One thing is for sure. You could come back down a LOT faster than you climbed up.
ReplyDeleteYou want me to change the light bulb WHERE! Yo'all better watch out, it's going to be dark up on that tower for a LONG LONG time.
ReplyDeleteNot for $5 a foot. When I was in the Navy stationed in Greece, back in the late 60's, we had the tallest man made structure in Greece on our Transmitter site. 600 foot tall radio antenna. 2nd class PO climbed it up and down in 20 minutes. We all thought he was crazy.
ReplyDeletegreat place for a reliable LED type lamp system. Not even wanting to take someones bread out of their mouth tho
ReplyDeleteNo need to change the whole bulb. Just re-string the filament.
ReplyDeleteNOPE!
ReplyDeleteI have done that on a few radio transmitter towers. What's fun is when you get to the top and find out the housing has rotted away so it needs replacing as well. The highest tower I have climbed was just under 700 feet.
ReplyDeleteBTW: that is a nitch market. There are not too many people that will make a climb. I was flown from Atlanta to LA to swap out a bulb once.
Did this on a 800 footer in the early '90s. Once. I was young and fit. $2000 payday if my now old and feeble brain remembers correctly. The man who regularly did the work had a foot injury from playing softball. Did not do another. Cool hanging around the top after changing the bulb. Very serene.
ReplyDeleteI used to work with a retired master chief who enjoyed climbing the loran towers on an island near midway. said he could not understand it. thousands of miles of water all around and here he was putting an anti collision beacon light on top of loran antenna towers in the middle of the pacific ocean. said he was higher in altitude than the gulls flew at.
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