Climbing a 2,000-ft tall tower - GIF

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Nov 27, 2021, 06:07 AM
Altair

Climbing a 2,000-ft tall tower - GIF

Climbing the 609.2 meter (1,999 ft) KDLT television tower in Rowena, South Dakota.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...989#post191200
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...971#post187296
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...273#post192179
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...974#post140773
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...236#post161368
Nov 27, 2021, 11:34 AM
Frank S

I might climb it but I would be wearing a parachute, because no way am I going to miss that opportunity to not have to descend all of those rungs
Nov 28, 2021, 10:14 AM
Nick79

Hmmm - I think I will pass on that climb.
Nov 28, 2021, 04:29 PM
Elizabeth Greene

Earning it

My daughter wants to do this job when she becomes an adult. It pays pretty well, but it has a shockingly high workplace fatality rate. From tower climbers on YouTube we learned that climbing these lug style towers is particularly exhausting, much more so than a ladder climb.
Nov 29, 2021, 09:23 AM
mlochala

My knees would never survive that climb. As it is now, I can hear them creaking and grinding just going up a short flight of steps.

But, that view would be awesome.
Nov 30, 2021, 11:27 AM
Hoosiersmoker

Now it's time to camp out and change the lamp at the top, whether it needs it or not! The free climb on that tower is probably about 100 ft or so. You get to climb that AFTER the first 1900 feet inside an ever narrowing cage. I'm surprised it's a solo climb. Typically they service all of the beacons on the way up and it takes a second person to haul the equipment. Maybe he left that guy at the last beacon? I wonder how long the whole climb takes?
Nov 30, 2021, 11:49 AM
mwmkravchenko

Frank the parachute would work. There are guy wires. I doubt I could make that climb now. But what a view. Especially on a clear day.
Nov 30, 2021, 06:12 PM
Frank S

Quote:

Originally Posted by mwmkravchenko

Frank the parachute would work. There are guy wires. I doubt I could make that climb now. But what a view. Especially on a clear day.

easier to dodge guy wires during the day than highline wires at night