Starting removal of John Hancock Building west antenna
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Making notch cut of the top cap west antenna on the John Hancock building so that mast can be installed to start removal of the top sections.
RUclips only just recommended this to me even though it’s so old, but I got to say, you guys have balls of solid rock!
You guys are awesome for being able to do this kind of work. Big cities could never exist without your fearlessness!
I've worked up high all my life, the peace and calm you receive is beyond explanation.
That man up there working like that and smoking a heater...love it! 🤣
I started to get dizzy at just the thought of myself being that high off the ground. you guys are special breed.
They'd have to pay me 5 million bucks a second.
Fuggedaboudit! You're to expensive. They got it done cheaper.
couldn't pay me enough, thank God for people who can do this
Nice job gentleman. Not an easy task. The climb alone is very physical. Conditions only merit this feat. They don't call you Local 1 for nothing. Local 55 Ironworker likes your effort! Keep the WORK UNION !
Oh yeah just another day at work we will be back up there tomorrow again just enjoying the view!
Haha nobody even knows it's you in the video! Wtf right? Lol
Yo Brandon way to get it buddy
I know and thank you but I wasn't the only one up there
Of course, the cameraman has giant balls. I wish i could do that kind of work
I don't think I can do your job. So you guys still call the other building Sears. I hope nobody calls it by the w name.
Whenever I think that I am a super badass all I have to is load this video to remind me that I am not ;)
Yeah, me too. ... Even with a cigarette hanging out of my mouth.
I spent many years working at these heights. Great fun!
Local 1...you guys are amazing! Keep up the great work and stay safe.
I love how you can still hear fire engine sirens even from that height.
I worked up there too, though not nearly as high up as they were at all, and I'd argue that you can the sirens even better up there than on the ground. There's nothing to block the sound around you up there. The planes and helicopters are way louder than the sirens up there too than down on the ground (for obviously different reasons). The worst part of all about being up there is smelling what they're cooking up down in the Signature Room! It'll make your mouth water ALL DAY LONG!
Whelen Eq2b siren by the sounds of it
Correction: Federal Signal eQ2b
I'm on solid ground, watching this, so why am I holding on to my desk, with my fingernails embedded into the wooden surface?????
Smoking a cig up there like there isn't a care in the world. I never get how people do this mess, but it's amazing to see.
It's so "Chicago" to have a cigarette hanging out of his mouth! Love it! I love my city... here's to the men and women, long gone, who built it (often without safety gear)... and here's to the men and women of today who maintain it... you rock!
You shouldn’t take pride in working unsafe but yes Chicago is a city
I always loved this building ever since seeing it in Poltergeist III. I had the privilege of visiting this tower back in 1999 with my late father. The unique X-bracing architecture always wowed me and in my opinion is the most impressive looking tower in the world. It's not gaudy, it's not gauche, it's just a sophisticated and understated monolith. I'd love to visit it again sometime. I also love Chicago!
You seem to have an interest in building architecture...reminds me of a great Gary Cooper movie based on an Ayn Rand book called the 'Fountain Head"
They redid the observatory it’s called Chicago 360 !
This is amazing. These guys are in a class of their own.
Heck, I get dizzy watching them...
Damn I don't know what you guys are getting paid, but it's definitely not enough. You definitely earn it. Much respect!
It wasn't until I went up on the John Hancock observatory that I found that so many rooftops in the city have pools.
Pucker factor of....10!! Oh hell yeah! My dad was an Ironworker, retired from Ironworkers Local 9 Niagara Falls NY.
We only had 1 iron worker on this whole job and they took the credit. It was us local 134 guys that are here every day servicing these towers and antennas.
And you guys do a great job!
Much much respect to these guys!!!
This must be such an amazing job!! Never take these views for granted please!!
Its the first time Ive ever experienced some form of vertigo watching a clip. You boys better get paid a wedge!
He's fucking smoking at 900000000 feet, i'm even scared of climbing up a ladder, yet this dude has the balls to have a smoke as well.
It's not the fall that gets you its the sudden stop!
💯 From that antenna height, fall to roof and bounce and then fall 1000 feet to street.
Wow....these workers are incredible.
And then the dude stood up. NO WAY! Das some huge cojones!! My hands are sweaty.
That take enormous balls!!!
These dudes are the toughest and bravest Alive period crazy much respect
I give it an 8.8 on the "Vertigo Scale", which tops out at a 10.
I use these videos to test my inner ear, as well as for what I call a "Beer Multiplier", meaning if I drink 3 beers while watching this I get the same effect as 5 beers without the video.
how are these men so brave?
Watching these guys makes me feel dizzy , You gotta have some real balls to do this kind of work. One wrong move and its over.....
They're strapped wit h safety harnesses
Doesn’t change the fact something could go wrong. God bless this guys I hope what they get paid if worth risking their life’s
@@rpg1876 Yeah, and most of us normal people are just here sitting at home with our feet on the ground and STILL get woozy watching this. Sure you can tell yourself that with a harness it's not really that dangerous and that the fear is irrational, etc. But chances are your hind brain will never believe it.
Broadcast tower riggers are a very different breed.
I've been on the roof of the Hancock ... and a couple of flights up the inside of one of those masts ... but no way would I want to climb up the way these guys do it.
Love the smoke hangin' out...classic! I'd be chainsmoking too..ha!
Watch out for the Blue Angels up there for this weekends airshow!!
The best view in all the extension!! Thumbs up to the worker wow well job done!
Respect to these men. Balls of steel. 💪💰
When the guy stands up at 1:16 I almost shit myself!
this video literally giving me anxiety ..you guys are awesome
Used to work at WTP and 900 N Michigan as an engineer. Would have to do dumb ahit on the roof every so often. Surreal seeing them from an even higher vantage point. Being on the roof of 900 was so cool looking out towards the west, because you could see city grid, via strretlights, as the building began to taper down.
Not gonna lie. I watched 42 seconds of this video and had to shut it off. My butt clenched so hard it's gonna be a week before I can go to the bathroom, and my balls climbed up so deep into me it's gonna be about 5 years before they drop again.
Good god. I can't decide if you tower dogs are crazy or brave.
Then again, to put it into perspective, there's really no difference in the lethality of a fall from 525 feet (160m) vs. 1,500 feet. (459m) You'll be going the same 56 m/s (125 MPH - average terminal velocity for an average human) in either case. The only difference is time - falling from that height would take 11 seconds, v.s. just under 6 seconds to fall from 525 ft.
Ain't physics fun?
Best comment 2014
true, when you work higher then three story buildings you learn this one quick.
I know how you feel. If I was in their position, I'd be petrified!
@@alexanderpytko5394 ok
this video made me older, although it also made my more courageous, just by watching it!
i feel like a new man!
"WZAZ in Chicago.....where Disco Lives forever!!!" SLAM!!! LOL! :)
Ah the Airplane reference
Can you fly this plane and land it?
Balls the size of basketballs!
Post more of these terrifying videos please!
Lit cigarette in his mouth during this......the dude is badass than my whole family lineage combines.
Your colorful commentary is priceless!
Потрясающе!
Ужас как высота- какие бестрашные ребята
ДА, действительно, просто, дух захватывает!
thank God there are people willing to do this kind of work...i'm not one of them.
What are they trying to figure out? I feel like they should have planned that out before they were 1500ft high on a platform the size of a night stand..
Stefan S whoever you are, I love you! Thank you for that laugh and God bless you 😂
Stefan, I'd still be planning everything on the ground - 6 years later.
My palms are visibly wet two minutes into this.
This was too short! Could have watched it all day.👍
All I can say is it's a beautiful thing.
Watching the video is hard enough let alone doing it for real - kudos!
this takes balls of steel.
Titanium, sir. Solid Titanium. Let's be clear ! 😂💪🏾💪🏾
Great video - especially LSD and Oak St Beach
I love how the his buddy is smoking! 0:30
I think i would actually enjoy this job even though i don't like heights. Imagine how exhilarating and surreal is it up there.
Scary View , thanks for the Video 😳😳👍👍
One cannot deny the awe and beauty of this view of Lake Mich and the Downtown Chicago ...however, even watching this video gave me a feeling of..as Mel Brooks says, 'High Anxiety ' and Alfred Hitchcock's 'Vertigo'....😮lol
It's hard to act any cooler than these guys are in that situation. Wow!
Wow! I feel I'm scaling the heights when I use my 6 ft. ladder.
Imagine getting a charlie horse up there? Or a back spasm.
The wind must be really strong up there!
yes it can get strong up there we have recorded 73mph be for.
A little pee came out of me.
Absolutely insane!
They're real comfy up there. Having normal convos and shit. Lol.
와~ 난 연봉 억단위 준다고해도 절대로 못할거같다;;;
3~5층 올라가서 믿에 보는것만 해도 덜덜 떠는데 .... ( 고소 공포증 )
진짜 대단 하시네요 ;;;
That's pretty cool!
Oh yeah that's what's up I love being up there wouldn't change it for the world
Awesome Brandon! I used to put lights on Baseball field poles 20 years ago......But don't think I had what it takes to be up there. Keep looking out for little brother...be safe and have fun! Thanks for the video.
You sir are a bad ass
Great work!
Omg. Watching this makes my stomach turn and my knees tremble.....I want to jump
These guys make tons of money going all over the world whenever needed. One job like this could possibly make 60 thousand dollars, each. This fireman I know told me this.
LOL, a torch and a cigarette! Go out with bang!
I couldn't feel my legs while watching this video.
WHAT BRAVE MEN!!!
Awesome video. More please :-)
wtf i was denied a radio tower job because i was a smoker haha
I was going to ask where he tossed that butt!
Every tower smoker I know smokes lol. Just throw it off, the wind takes it far away lol
Is anyone else curious as to how that next cut went? I want to know!
We took down 130 feet of the tower and that was just the first cut to see how it would go but then it flew by after getting our system down
glad there are people that can do that but i get dizzy just watching. What was that guy standing on?
¡Simplemente Fenomenal! What a view! Love it!.
How is the ambulance siren so clear and loud so high up???
+Hellloo Trollls Noise travels upwards anyway, and it basically climbs the building up into the atomosphere.
I would be so nervous I would poop my shorts and since there not brief types the poop would depart my pant leg and I fear land on some unsuspecting bystander and being that I am constipated could prove to be a fatal experiance.
I did jobs similar to that for years. Kinda miss it
How abt that guy on a smoke break at first lol
How many meters is this tower?
Looks so damn huge!!! The buildings below look like little houses...
It's like 1,128 ft high at roof level and 1,500 ft at the antenna tip 😳😱🙈🏢
Nice, dangerous but awesome job to have.
Crazy! I want this job.
This is mental!
Nope Mr. smoker is my baby brother! Super proud of that fearless punk LOVE YOU BRANDON!!!!!!
its Tonya btw Boog, just looking at it under Alex's account
Just make sure, you don't drop anything! Even a single bolt or screw would hurt if fallen on someone's head on the street. Wow.
"Hey boss what's the plan for today"?
"Well John we're gonna start to dismantle the west antenna on the Hancock"
"Oh good because if you said the Sears tower antenna I'd say no fucking way am I doin that!"
how much would a job like this pay, just curious
Not enough!!!
Love the cigarette by the oxy-acetylene lines.
You guys have real balls !
doesn't that guy know that smoking is dangerous and can kill you. Lol
Miss the views from the office.
These dudes have balls
I hope they pay these guys a lot of money for doing this.
that is so friggin cool
Wild. But I'm interested in your journey up there. Should have filmed that. Once your up there it isn't that extreme knowing your tied off. Is this about 1000/hour