Videos like that make the ol’ gonads crawl into the pit of my stomach
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Saddest part is, the blades can’t be recycled. I wonder what their pay scale is. Can’t be much if it’s a socialist country. For a mountain climber he’d do it for free.
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I used to climb antenna towers in my younger days. There were some monopoles that were similar to these turbine towers (but not as tall) that were pretty sturdy, but you could feel them moving around in the wind when you were at the top.
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Not me, I don’t like heights like that. My son on the other hand has no fear of heights. With his work installing fiber optic cable he often has to climb high towers and it doesn’t bother him a bit. When he was in S. Africa in the early 2000’s he went to the world’s highest bungee jump over a very deep gorge down there with a drop of about 1000 ft. or so and lived to talk about it and had a great time. I would’ve crapped my pants even thinking about it when he told me that.
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And he does it all for only $36,000per year. What a bargain.
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Geoff- our construction department did a lot of that too. one time we had to cross the railroad and the rail company would not grant us permission to go underneath like we usually did, so we went Ariel’s. While running the cable from pole to pole a container train came thru and snagged the cable! The guy at the top of the pole went for a wild ride! No, not on the train, but back and forth on the pole as he hung on for dear life!
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Great illustration of how huge those things really are!!
If people knew how big they really are they wouldn’t be pushing to have them on every mountain and just offshore.
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I don’t mind going up.
It’s the coming down part I don’t like…
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My palms sweat while watching this.
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That device he held and called his lifeline is the lanyard attachment device that is designed to expand when stressed to absorb the energy of the impulse as the lanyard becomes taught when he reaches the end of the fall. It absorbs the energy and doesn’t rebound back like a rubber band. The fall comes to a gradual stop.
Without it the “snatch” at the bottom would cause his harness to crush all of his bones.
Don’t ask me how I know these things…
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At the end of the day, the wind generators won’t even break even….
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The tax payers fund the bill for these ecological disasters while those in gubment and those higher up in GE and the like make millions…
Yay
With a mind uncluttered by the facts nor burdened by any relevant training or experience let me offer an opinion. It seems, since these abominations are really a total waste of money anyway, maybe they should be designed to fold down somehow and make service easier.
The design spec’s? I’ll get back to you.
Good luck achieving “equity” in that job position…
Videos like that make the ol’ gonads crawl into the pit of my stomach
Saddest part is, the blades can’t be recycled. I wonder what their pay scale is. Can’t be much if it’s a socialist country. For a mountain climber he’d do it for free.
I used to climb antenna towers in my younger days. There were some monopoles that were similar to these turbine towers (but not as tall) that were pretty sturdy, but you could feel them moving around in the wind when you were at the top.
Not me, I don’t like heights like that. My son on the other hand has no fear of heights. With his work installing fiber optic cable he often has to climb high towers and it doesn’t bother him a bit. When he was in S. Africa in the early 2000’s he went to the world’s highest bungee jump over a very deep gorge down there with a drop of about 1000 ft. or so and lived to talk about it and had a great time. I would’ve crapped my pants even thinking about it when he told me that.
And he does it all for only $36,000per year. What a bargain.
Geoff- our construction department did a lot of that too. one time we had to cross the railroad and the rail company would not grant us permission to go underneath like we usually did, so we went Ariel’s. While running the cable from pole to pole a container train came thru and snagged the cable! The guy at the top of the pole went for a wild ride! No, not on the train, but back and forth on the pole as he hung on for dear life!
Great illustration of how huge those things really are!!
If people knew how big they really are they wouldn’t be pushing to have them on every mountain and just offshore.
I don’t mind going up.
It’s the coming down part I don’t like…
My palms sweat while watching this.
That device he held and called his lifeline is the lanyard attachment device that is designed to expand when stressed to absorb the energy of the impulse as the lanyard becomes taught when he reaches the end of the fall. It absorbs the energy and doesn’t rebound back like a rubber band. The fall comes to a gradual stop.
Without it the “snatch” at the bottom would cause his harness to crush all of his bones.
Don’t ask me how I know these things…
At the end of the day, the wind generators won’t even break even….
The tax payers fund the bill for these ecological disasters while those in gubment and those higher up in GE and the like make millions…
Yay
With a mind uncluttered by the facts nor burdened by any relevant training or experience let me offer an opinion. It seems, since these abominations are really a total waste of money anyway, maybe they should be designed to fold down somehow and make service easier.
The design spec’s? I’ll get back to you.
Good luck achieving “equity” in that job position…
That was a rather fancy looking rope grab.
So how many times do you fall from here?
Just once.