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Friday, August 18, 2006

Little Mountain










We had a tower to climb in Little Mountain, SC. Our mission was to replace an antenna and 7/8" coaxial cable. This was the tower, 350 feet to the top.

There is really a greater distance between the cellular antennae array and the top than appears.

Here is the base of the tower. You can see the rope that we use to haul stuff up the tower hanging to right (yellow).





There goes the first guy.


It's probably the most difficult structure I've ever climbed. That's not me above, though.

You probably wonder what the ground crew is doing in the mean time. This pic shows that most of the time, they look up the tower in fond admiration (HA HA!).

I didn't take any pictures on my climb to the cell array, but here's a few shots when I got there.

A real bird's eye view of the scenery. Below is looking back at the ground crew. You can see the tip of my boot in the bottom of the picture.

Cool as a cucumber, right? Actually, the array was rather comfortable.

And a couple random shots, all of which were taken from the array.

I've been to the top of this tower before, but I was glad to just take a picture this time!!! A LONG way to go!

Here's a self-portrait. Pardon my hair - I had to wear a hardhat. But still, if you had to climb that tower, your hair would get messed up, hardhat or no.


Conceited, I know. But nobody was there to take it for me!


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posted by The Vernon Family at 6:43 AM

7 Comments:

  • I am s-s-so glad you have a blog! Now we can s-s-see what your work is like!

    S-s-some of those pictures look really neat, others a little s-s-scary. S-s-seems like you enjoy it, though!
    God bless,
    S-s-s.A.M.

    By Blogger Morton Family, at 2:46 PM  

  • What kind of safety equipment do you wear? Does your Mama know the kind of work you do??? :0) Those heights scare me to pieces! Mumzy Morton

    By Blogger Morton Family, at 3:38 PM  

  • Welcome to the blogosphere!!!! Make sure you update often!

    The pictures are really interesting...although my stomach felt like it was going to turn inside out when i saw high you had to climb.
    Kate

    By Blogger Morton Family, at 4:41 PM  

  • We found your blog! :)
    I like your profile picture. Is it the "Vernon Family Crest"?
    Picture #5 (from the top)is simply stunning. I don't know if you are able but it would be really, really, really neat if you could take a sunset picture.
    ~Meghan~

    By Blogger Morton Family, at 5:04 PM  

  • Oh, well. So much for secrecy. I forgot that you would have a direct link to my blog. You weren't supposed to look at it until I said you could :(.
    The really scary pic is the one of the ground crew. (LOL)

    In the next chapter you'll see me in my harness. It's a tank job where Jacob and I set the probe controls. I just took the picture CD to work this morning, but didn't have time to post.
    Later, filthy animals.

    By Blogger The Vernon Family, at 7:30 PM  

  • It is high, but you get used to it.

    Thanks-s-s for the comments.

    Yes, Mama knows. They came down to see me climb one job we did on a tank. Dad has some of it on video.

    Yes, that's the Vernon family coat of arms. I am not usually hanging on tower at sunset. I might take pictures of that when I go back to Williamsburg. I will be posting pix of that tank later on. Very big tank!

    Gotta go, getting a little sleepy. TTFN.

    By Blogger The Vernon Family, at 9:37 PM  

  • As a water treatment engineer(retired) usually commissioning in the UK, Ireland and Cairo, I found your blog very interesting - great photography!
    Thanks

    By Blogger Unknown, at 5:22 PM  

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