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Installing some antennas at the 160′ mark on a monopole tower… Sorry didn’t take pictures was so busy working haha…
Lets see some other work pictures from TIA crew!
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very cool Jordan!! man that’s high…..
prolly a great view from the top
Haha, that’s a huge nope for me I can’t do heights unless I’m in a basket! Still thanks for making sure we have great cell phone service!!
DR99 wrote:
Haha, that’s a huge nope for me I can’t do heights unless I’m in a basket! Still thanks for making sure we have great cell phone service!!
Hey I hated heights, I would never imagine being that high months ago when I was just a commercial electrician. But after going through training and going up there its a awesome feeling. Especially when you start working and forget you are so high!!!
Got balls!!!(atypical electrician….)
up in the lifts from earlier today…up and down… up and down… where ever the work may be…
Are they grain silos to the right. We have a place here in Baltimore that took the grain silos and made them into condos.
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Westminster MD
240′
Here in Italy we almost haven’t no more young kid in the building construction…i hate that.never know in 20 years of work a guy with less than 22/25 year old(except the extra ue god bless them).reminds me when I start in ’95 with my dad and my grandfather and everybody in the jobsite ask me “what are you doing here child?are you lost yourself?”.keep on working kids!and be proud of your work.I’m proud of you!god bless America and Americans…
Awesome pictures Jordan. And yes regopit they are and exactly like you said they are turning them into luxury condos…
great idea to turn those silos into living spaces
madman_us wrote:
great idea to turn those silos into living spaces
Yea it is a good Idea if you have the bucks. Here in Baltimore they start at $350,000.00 for a 1bed 1bath studio the over $1,000.000.00 and you are right next to the port and rail yard so you get all of that noise at no extra charge.
Wow that’s exspenso!!!! For a 1 bed 1 bath oh hell no!!
Shit is that expensive. Bad view cost extra lol
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Updated 10/22
150′
Very nice views Jordan!
Nice view but I’m not climbing up that high 🙂
crazy heights… here is another one from the southside of the building… there is a crane in the picture that is suppose to be i believe the second largest in the USA. the crane that has the two hitches on the backside… hopefully the pic is clear enough. she is here in Minneapolis putting up the Minnesota Vikings New Stadium being built.
may have to zoom in to see…
Very cool para!!
how is the air so high above the ground?
those are some biga$$ cranes para
madman_us wrote:
how is the air so high above the ground?
Windy, very windy. This is my first year working outside and I hear it’s a long cold winter up there. (Previously did mostly inside work during winter)
Jordan time to get a heated jacket bro! 😉
lol ya, maybe a good choice to get it 😀
Bigmikez wrote:
Jordan time to get a heated jacket bro! 😉
I am plAnning on one of the milwaukee ones since I have all the Milwaukee batteries anyway. Just wish there was a zip up hoodie that’s heated.
have you ever been attacked by birds up there?
TylerDama wrote:
have you ever been attacked by birds up there?
Personally no, I have seen turkey bussards attack. Also heard of a eagle attacking a tech and really fucking him up. Most birds flee when u start climbing and making noise.
I was feeling queazy, just looking at the photos. I’m shire like any job u get used to it.
A eagle oh hell no!!! Lol!
If you guys are interested more in the telecommunications industry this is a great documentary about how things work and the carriers abuse of small companies. And feel free to ask questions I like to answer and have more people understand the infrastructure behind heir phone calls.
Antenna grounding:
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Kinda dropped the Uh torch 200′
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I bet u heard a lot of phone dropping horror stories Jordan… very cool pics man!!
not a job for butterfingers eh?
good that it was just the propane bottle
Man I swear when I drop a tool off a ladder. 200 ft would be a hell of a long way to retrieve a tool.
Bigmikez wrote:
I bet u heard a lot of phone dropping horror stories Jordan… very cool pics man!!
Actually my Foreman dropped his 140′ and I guess the trees and mud slowed it down before stopping so it didn’t crack his screen or anything (ipgone 4s)
Bigmikez wrote:
I bet u heard a lot of phone dropping horror stories Jordan… very cool pics man!!
Actually my Foreman dropped his 140′ and I guess the trees and mud slowed it down before stopping so it didn’t crack his screen or anything (ipgone 4s)
Bigmikez wrote:
I bet u heard a lot of phone dropping horror stories Jordan… very cool pics man!!
Actually my Foreman dropped his 140′ and I guess the trees and mud slowed it down before stopping so it didn’t crack his screen or anything (ipgone 4s)
TylerDama wrote:
not a job for butterfingers eh?
Nope especially when your throwing tools to one another up there haha. Definetly gotta have some good hands.
That’s awesome Jordan, obviously not for someone scared of heights………
When I first started with the utility I was working a high line pole on rt 40. I would say the pole was 90′ and I was climbing down and I cut out. I was about 30′ up and i hugged the pole big mistake. I slid down the pole the rest of the way and had splinters head to toe. Not a very pleasant feeling. That’s when I said screw this I’m transferring. to the gas side
So you work for bge on the gas side?
Working for bge on the gas side?regopit wrote:
When I first started with the utility I was working a high line pole on rt 40. I would say the pole was 90′ and I was climbing down and I cut out. I was about 30′ up and i hugged the pole big mistake. I slid down the pole the rest of the way and had splinters head to toe. Not a very pleasant feeling. That’s when I said screw this I’m transferring. to the gas side
I was there 35 years and I left 4 years ago but, I always had my business.
regopit wrote:
I was there 35 years and I left 4 years ago but, I always had my business.
I hope to eventually get into the linemen field with BGE in the next ten years or so. I really wanna do aerial line work from choppers, that’s the ultimate job for me…
man Jordan that video is nuts! my respect to all u guys that work in those fields bro!
whats that’s just crazy
Bge has it’s own tower crews but like in the video that type of work is contracted out.
Jordan.M wrote:
I hope to eventually get into the linemen field with BGE in the next ten years or so. I really wanna do aerial line work from choppers, that’s the ultimate job for me…
Are you one of those crazy people that love that rush of adrenaline? That’s just insane the whole live wire working from helicopters. I have also seen them live wire work from insulated platforms. I’m with Regiopit on this one even-though being in the ground and in the dirt all the time with natural gas has to take its tole on your body. It just seems safer to me with explosive gas detectors and all the other meters it just seems safer than being a linesman. After seeing pics and videos of people getting electrocuted and arc flashes anything over 120 scares the crap out of me. I was wondering Regiopit can you still smell natural gas after all these years? I read a story somewhere where some guys cause an explosion working on a live gas line and didn’t have a explosive gas detector on them. They mentioned that you lose sensitivity to the smell it if you work in that trade.