Comments on: Interview with a Tower Climber-2

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:25:09 +0000

Anthony let me guess you live in Maine and make so decent money right. I just hope that your employer is not Eastern communications. However the mid 20’s is not bad. Best of luck to you.

Rremember 100% tie off

By: Anthony

Anthony — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:00:21 +0000

Been doing this for a while now, 8 years to be exact. It’s the forgotten industry. They always put us in the catagory with the iron workers, yes we work with some iron building the towers but thats not all we do. I don’t think an iron workers is going to climb to 300 feet in the middle of the winter when it’s 14 degrees on the ground and the winds howling through the tower to re align a microwave dish in east bum Maine… those guys get paid alot more than us and most of them don’t even get above 50 feet. I get paid pretty well now, in the mid 20’s an hour, but i started out at 12 an hour. if your going to try this job, make sure you understand that your not doing it for the money…the money isn’t great when you start…

By: steve

steve — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:40:21 +0000

Richard,

Any company will provide this for you. Once you obtain it, this cert is only good for you current company after that you will have to take it again.

By: steve

steve — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:48:20 +0000

If a new company is what you are looking for try http://www.wirelessestimator.com look under employment. This is a website based for all tower workers. Where do you live? If you make 12.00 an hr your employer is one of those guys. Those guys are what we call rip offs. However do remember that this is a very small industry so leave nice.

By: Hersh Daddy

Hersh Daddy — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:19:09 +0000

this is ridiculous i climb 300 ft towers every day sometime 2 or 3 a day and get paid 12 dollars a hr i need to find a new company anybody got any ideas all we do is antenna swapout and add lines

By: Steven Cormier

Steven Cormier — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:33:43 +0000

I have been doing this for about 7 years. However I must say that we are under paid in the industry. I do not care what tower man says. Unless you are working in CA then you would have to work your ass off to make 75,000. I have been a foreman and top of the industry in the field and to make 75,000 would take a lot of hours.
If mostly you sweep diagnose and repair from the ground then you are not a tower climber.
Individuals that try to come into this industry and lie about past experience and can not climb however they think that they can sweep end up on the ground. Then you us men who are fast and efficient in the air people do not want to lose us. However even as a foreman I still hop my ass on the tower.
People are afraid of a little work.

By: richard meek

richard meek — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:49:20 +0000

my friend donney has been climbing for ten years and i have been up twice with him to try the job out and i have to say i love it i am working to save up money to go to tower school to get my certification i give tower dogs a lot of respect because they carry alot of weight up the tower with them when they climber and it does take a very strong person and very focused person to be a tower climber if anyone knows of any company that pays for training in the tower field please let me know thank u very much

By: george truman

george truman — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:53:07 +0000

my freind has a job doing this work, and i would like to do it also.i went to school 4 att too be a certifed field tech.if you have any inforation on who is hiring or were i can get a job doing this i would greatly apperciate all your help. sincerly, george truman

By: tower man

tower man — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:34:47 +0000

i am a tower climber but mostly sweep diagnose and repair from the ground. let me tell you even as the average tower climber working 50 to 60 hrs per week only making 60000 you are very underpaid. the average tower jockey around here is 75000 per year and the above average to great workers do much better