Lamp Changer

[Colonialgirl]

Husband: “I changed a light bulb today. ”
Wife: “That's it? I did the laundry, vacuumed the house, washed windows, cooked three meals, and the list goes on and on ... And you changed a single light bulb?”
Husband: “Yep, that’s what I did today. Watch this; I filmed me doing it.”
To see his film, click on:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/f1BgzIZRfT8?feature=player_embedded.

 

[SamV]

Nope! I don't think there was ever a point in my life when I would have had the stomach for that. Physically, no problem. Emotionally, big problem.

 

[gramps]

Rappelling off that would be a trip! A person in the Nashville Grotto (caving club), went to Mt Thor with a single, mile long rope and both rappelled and ascended the drop. Fastest time rappelling 5,400+ feet= 8 minutes, fastest time ascending-30 minutes.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Thor
gramps

 

[Mega Twin]

It would suck to get up there and realize you left the bulb at the bottom :mrgreen:

 

[blume357]

My father worked at a plant in Augusta George... the guy in charge of changing one of the bulbs on a tower got to the top one night with the bulb and realized someone had actually shot it out and so broke the cover on the bulb too. So, he changed out the bulb and went back down to get a cover replacement... when he got back up there... guess what? Now that would not make me comfortable....

 

[Fox Mike]

Oh dear! If ever a case of "Don't look down." then that would be it. :shock: :shock:

 

[jgt]

I changed a lamp on a tower with a light like that on top. From the ground it looked like the lamp they gave me was too large to fit the fixture, and, they gave me two of them. I thought I had one to put in and a spare so if I dropped one, I didn't have to come all the way down to get another one. Wrong!!! When I got up there it was a fixture like the one in the video. It was hinged in the middle. It had one lamp in the bottom and one in the top. The fixture was so heavy and I was so tired by the time I got up there; I had a hard time opening it up to get to the work. I remember how angry I was that I had been given no spare lamp. One thing you can say about that job. It is one you will not soon forget.
I only had a standard lineman's safety belt as opposed to the double rig that fellow used. I could not tie off while climbing. I could only tie off when I was at work. The way they did it in the video was a much safer method to use doing that work. It was twenty years later that I was able to use a rig like that.

 

[GunnyGene]

No way, no how, not enough money in the world for that job! :shock: I've been at the top of a 747 rudder installing skin panels, and that's only about 60ft. Anyway, it's not the altitude that kills you - it's the sudden stop at the bottom.

 

[CGDustDevil]

No way, no how, not enough money in the world for that job! :shock: I've been at the top of a 747 rudder installing skin panels, and that's only about 60ft. Anyway, it's not the altitude that kills you - it's the sudden stop at the bottom.

An old lineman I used to drink with told me that he was fine working on a 180 foot tall high voltage tower, but he wouldn't climb a 16 foot ladder to work on his own roof. He said if he was gonna fall off something, he wanted it to be high enough to kill him, since he didn't wanna live through an ordeal like that!

 

[pete44ru]

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That's almost as bad as changing the lightbulb located at the forward end of a boomer's torpedo tube while under way. :shock:

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[Jeepnik]

I'm sort of notorious for being an idiot.

Some years ago the refinery I worked at had a star they would light up for Christmas (no it was not Texaco). At any rate, the owner called one night and said he'd received complaints that the star wasn't lit. Apparently the locals liked the star even if they hated the refinery, go figure.

Now usually we had a company that would come out and make repairs during the day. But idiot that I am I volunteered to go up and see if I could fix it. Now it wasn't 1500', only a bit over 200' but once you get above a certain point, you're going to be just as dead when you fall, it just takes longer to get there.

Turned out there was a short so it was pretty easy to fix. A couple of hours later the star was lit and all was right with the world. Now my boss was a smart guy. So he says to himself "self, why are we paying thousands of dollars to some guy to fix this thing if I have an employee that can do it?". So guess who got the job of maintaining the star.

I just thought about it. I'd rather fall off the 1500' tower. Just wear a chute. Base jumpers do it all the time.

As I said, I was an idiot. I didn't have fall protection. No way any company would let that happen these days.

 

[pete44ru]

Some years ago the refinery I worked at had a star they would light up for Christmas

At any rate, the owner called one night and said he'd received complaints that the star wasn't lit.

Now usually we had a company that would come out and make repairs during the day.

But idiot that I am I volunteered to go up and see if I could fix it.

Turned out there was a short so it was pretty easy to fix.

Now my boss was a smart guy.

So he says to himself "self, why are we paying thousands of dollars to some guy to fix this thing if I have an employee that can do it?".

So guess who got the job of maintaining the star.

An older co-worker once gave me some advice, back in the early 60's when I left to enlist in the service.

He told me: "Never, EVER, volunteer for anything !

He was correct...… :roll:

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[Rick Courtright]

Nope! I don't think there was ever a point in my life when I would have had the stomach for that. Physically, no problem. Emotionally, big problem.

Hi,

Same here: I doubt you could strap me to that pole tightly enough! Even "back when!" :shock: Add that I'd probably drop the phone right after taking the selfie!

Rick C

 

[wiz1997]

Beats my 310 foot climb to the top of a refinery cracking tower.

That tower swayed a few feet at the top, can't imaging the sway on a 1500 foot tower.

 

[Jeepnik]

Beats my 310 foot climb to the top of a refinery cracking tower.

That tower swayed a few feet at the top, can't imaging the sway on a 1500 foot tower.

Our star was on top of an FCC reactor/regenerator. The fractionator was up there pretty good too.