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Not scary, to me, as these guys know what they are doing and they do it correctly, sure, I very much doubt that "I" could do it, but there are a LOT more scary things out there, IMHO, where people are doing stuff that can easily kill them, and they are on a lark, these guys are obviously pros.
...attaching himself to a safe line, he does it only to rest.
Toni, I respectfully disagree. I don't believe these guys are being overconfident and showing off by not using a safety line. The narrator mentioned that most pros do it this way, and I'm guessing a lot of the reason is to reduce fatigue. It probably would take at least twice as long (if not longer) to climb up and down while staying attached to a safety line, and all that extra time on the tower adds to the fatigue levels.
We (the USA ) burn up lotza electrical watts every night, lighting thousands of lights on towers under the ruse of air safety. I say Bull and I am a pilot.
As far as replacing the light..... Why do we have lights on most towers anyways? On a 1700 ft tower a light is fine but on say a tower less than 500 feet. Why is a light needed?
Look around at night there are way to many lights on many small towers. (cell towers quickly come to mind)
In 1929 a light on a 100 foot tower maybe was good for planes to avoid them at night.
Today how many aircraft do you see at less than 500 feet near any populated area? (close to airports excluded)
Must be a strong federal connection from many strobe light manufactures to keep these rules in place.
Lets save some energy and money and drop the requirement for lights on about 90% of the towers out there. Do we really need a light on top of a 100 foot cell tower that is in close to many 75 - 125 foot buildings???
Wilcox questions sole reliance upon deaths per 100,000 climbers to provide a safety checkup for the telecommunications construction and maintenance community. He points out that with such a small number of climbers that one climber death in the tower erectors' high risk industry would indicate an additional 11.5 deaths per 100,000 tower riggers, whereas an additional fatality in the structural iron and steel workers group would only add 1.5 deaths per 100,000 employees.
Pete I would agree with you on airplanes, but what about helicopters and ultralights etc