{"id":17238,"date":"2012-07-07T16:20:38","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T20:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbach.net\/blog\/index.php\/"},"modified":"2021-08-11T16:53:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T20:53:24","slug":"one-heck-of-a-commute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/one-heck-of-a-commute\/","title":{"rendered":"One Heck of a Commute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180802101528\/http:\/\/www.professionaldevelopmentforteachers.com:80\/the-lazy-teachers-guide-to-implementing-stem-in-the-classroom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-109389\" title=\"One Heck of a Commute\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/woman-surprised3-2.jpg?resize=85%2C125&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"One Heck of a Commute\" width=\"85\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/woman-surprised3-2.jpg?w=102&amp;ssl=1 102w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/woman-surprised3-2.jpg?resize=51%2C75&amp;ssl=1 51w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 85px) 100vw, 85px\" \/><\/a>I drive about 55 minutes to get to work most days, now, maybe I won&#8217;t complain as much about my commute after seeing what these guys do to get to work. This seven-minute clip follows two radio transmission tower workers as they<strong> scale a 1,768 foot guided tower<\/strong> to work on the mast.<\/p>\n<p>To put this height into perspective, this tower is almost twice the height of the <a title=\"Eiffel Tower\" href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/eiffel-tower\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"historycom noopener noreferrer\">Eiffel Tower<\/a> in <a title=\"Paris\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150623031728\/http:\/\/www.paris.fr:80\/english\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage noopener noreferrer\">Paris<\/a>. In the video, filmed using a <a title=\"Helmet camera\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20140214191618\/http:\/\/www.rei.com\/category\/40005409\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener wikipedia noreferrer\">helmet cam<\/a>, and you can see these guys free-climb without safety harnesses in some sections of the tower.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Do Not Try This At Home!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/INbKYq0G9nU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6>Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20151003110633\/http:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/\/content\/stories\/local\/2012\/06\/21\/longer-commute-may-harm-health.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Longer commute may harm health<\/a> (dispatch.com)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160202143141\/http:\/\/www.streamlinerefinance.net\/cost-of-commuting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cost of Commuting Infographic | StreamlineRefinance.net<\/a> (streamlinerefinance.net)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a title=\"Ralph Bach\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/new-resume\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ralph Bach<\/a>\u00a0has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his\u00a0<a title=\"Bach Seat\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bach Seat<\/a> about IT, careers, and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. You can follow him on <a class=\"broken_link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rb48334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">LinkedIn<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ralph.bach.14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rbach48334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>. Email the Bach Seat\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:\/\/bach.seat@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This clip filmed the commute of radio tower workers who scale a 1768 foot tower you can see them free-climb without safety gear in some places<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2197,32,1306,1308,1307],"class_list":["post-17238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-2197","tag-business","tag-commute","tag-omg","tag-radio-tower"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17238"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125273,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17238\/revisions\/125273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}