Asking because I only made it up 85ft before I had to call it yesterday. It was a tough leg climb and i was having trouble wrapping my safeties, which led to me getting tired faster than I ought. I know with better technique and experience I'll be able to make it up but I'm gonna stick to the 60ft tower maintenance until I'm ready.

I keep finding a lot of conflicting information when it comes to filing for state income taxes. My employer is in one state, I live in another state, and I frequently work in ~25 other states throughout the year. Duration of work in a given state is anywhere from 1-30 days. It seems that some states only require you to claim if you're there for 10+ days and some states require you to file with them for even a single day. My W-2 only includes my state of residence and state of employer.

I used H&R block for many years because I was confused around this and didn't want to be liable. The last two years I've filed myself but I want to make sure I'm not opening up some future audit for not making the proper claims.

I believe the technical rule is that you should file for every state you gain income in (besides certain states with reciprocal laws), but this doesn't seem to be the general practice. If you file for a state with no income tax do you then receive a credit?

Side note: does your employer adhere to local employment laws in every state? I.e. in California overtime kicks in at anything over 8hrs in a day v.s. most states which are anything over 40 in a week.

Just think the idiotic urban explorers might not post as much.

I asked this to the tower crane operators, ironworkers and rope access folks, your turn. Are there many uneasy moments, be it specific heights, weather… most common understandably seems to be wind, tower crane ops especially say it’s never “comfortable” when the wind starts shaking you. I have no experience in any of this, just a curious outsider. Thanks everyone.

I climb in the Northeast, and it gets pretty cold up here. Have my clothing layering figured out pretty well but need tips for gloves and boots. Hands end up frozen almost everyday.

I'm 29, female, and love climbing heights as high as they get. I have been working custom framing (artwork framing, not domicile framework) in retail for 8 years and enjoy working with my hands. Mostly I am concerned about the length of time away from home town- is it a day trip, a week trip, more, how often? I'm in Houston, TX, so there are nearby towers and wind turbines, but most of them are in the Hill Country outskirts or the TX panhandle. I am reading up on the Pinnacles Career Institute but it's not totally clear, and I am curious of personal experiences, especially if you are from Houston or anywhere else in Texas.

First (ever) post just joined the industry at start of December, absolutely in love with it, any tips tools y'all might suggest?

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Who knows what this is? I think its some sort of pole clamp for tower safety. Does anyone know the name?

Update: I think its of the brand tuf-tug. Seems to be a universal round leg head adaptor bracket

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Someone used fence pipe 😜 Yes we did close the Notam 😏

It doesn’t need to necessarily be a job climbing, just a job in telecommunications that would allow me to work my way to climbing. I am more than ok with travel, I just need to get my foot in the door first.

Be it because you almost fell, or you just started thinking too much about how high is the tower, or maybe a simple slip kind of just triggered a fight or flight instinct in you?

Hey y'all,

-Veteran

-Years in aviation maintenance

-Bad back

-Neck headaches

-Enjoy working with hands

Since working on aircraft means you have a job until you don't, travelling all over the place chasing a paycheck, and at the end of it all, not much to show for it and you're a stranger in your own home when it's over.

Screw aircraft. Gimme a horse and buggy.

With that, should I climb a tower? Thanks to the many pounds and miles marched in the infantry, then the cramp quarters work of repairing aircraft, to finally the job that began my spinal problems, I now ache all the time. I can carry heavy equipment and, maybe, if my body was straight up and down, I could do it all day but should I? A few posts I've looked at seem to consider this profession "brutal" and hard on the body.