24Jun/102
Logan County From 200ft
Yesterday's thunderstorms took out some of the equipment that our employer uses to get internet into remote parts of Logan County, IL. The equipment was mounted about 200' up a mast type tower. To good news is that I had a good workout ahead of me. The bad news is that I had to climb a ladder to get up to that 200'. Twice. While I was up there I decided to whip out my mobile phone and capture some pics. I could see as far as Springfield to the south and the wind farm at the north end of the county. Beautiful day to go climbing.
June 25th, 2010 - 07:19
I am surprised that they let you do that. Don’t you have to be trained for that kind of stuff?
Lucky!
June 25th, 2010 - 08:09
I have actually done a lot of tower climbing at this job starting last summer. There was some training on how to use the safety equipment. There really is not much to it: climb, stay anchored to tower and don’t die.