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Originally Posted by herr_oberst
Anything around a smelter or a blast furnace.
Or anything underground. (A friend of mine had a job re-coating the rebar that got scratched and scuffed during installation during bridge piling construction....
Underground with millions of gallons of water rushing around above him.
Hell, I get nightmares thinking about that job.
Or anything involving heights. Like those guys that change lightbulbs at the top of the worlds tallest radio antennas.
Or those guys who fix high-tension cables strung hundreds of feet above canyons.
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I never changed a light bulb up there but in my early 20's I was in communications and had to climb all the towers around Oregon including the 1000' towers on the West hills. What a view!
I remember once at about the 650' level we were doing an antenna replacement on the KPDX tower. The antenna was stood off from the tower on a truss...about 10' out. Yeah, that was fun...Not! I had no problems with heights back then but I don't even like being on a ladder now.