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My man and I took a little tour down to Illinois this weekend to do a bit of tower work. Or, more precisely, he did an installation of five anemometers on a tower while I hunted around at the local thrift stores. I didn’t score a thing. I made myself feel better about that by a friendly little shopping spree at Sephora. Here’s a little zoom in on theother23 while he’s working, and there’s another photo HERE.
For the first half of this week, there was a viral video of a tower climber online. The video was removed because it was (really obviously) disregarding OSHA regulations for the industry. I thought I’d share some photos and THIS VIDEO of my own tower climber. Be sure to watch for the “heart attack”, which is when the climber’s lifeline shifts and he drops a few inches. As you can tell, these guys love that. In the background, you can see the snow-covered Mississippi River. The guys are at 1000 feet. These photos are from a work day five years ago. We went to a half-dozen towers to take photos. I covered the necessary ground shots of the electronic installations in the equipment buildings while my husband climbed and took pictures of the installations on the towers. Photo taken from “the can”, which is the tower located at the west end of Mineral Point Road, courtesy of theother23.
Apologies to my long-time readers (the ones who followed me here after nearly five years of blogging at Xanga). I know that you’ve seen this video as well as some of the photos and poems that I have been posting lately. That stated, to the newer readers … This is a little video that theother23 made for me in February when he Also, fyi … a “heart attack” is whenever the life support system of a climber shifts (due to wind or whatever) and the person drops a few inches. Suddenly and unexpectedly. Theother23 lives for that. (edited to add: A few shots of my husband climbing towers, from when we worked together about five years back, are HERE.) © JODI ANDERSON. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. |
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Madison, west-side, … from 1,250 feet. 
