Tower Business. (Danger)
I know many of you guys know that My Son, Bear Junior does a lot of Woodworking, but many of you may not know that his Full Time Job is his Tower Corporation he started more than 20 years ago.
He used to actually build the towers, but most of the work they did was installing & changing out Antennas on Cell Phone Towers. At one point he had 13 employees, including his Mom, Mrs Bear, who does all of his paperwork, insurance, accounting, payroll, and all that type of stuff. About 18 years ago, I closed my Cabinet Shop, and started helping him in his Tower Business too, while we had our Log house built right next to his property & Tower warehouse. That was good until my Agent Orange Heart Problems pretty much stopped me in my tracks in 2012, after a botched Open-Heart Fiasco.
Now Bear Jr's Subbing most of his Tower Jobs, and only has 5 Employees, including himself. So that’s why he started his woodworking side-line.
Well, anyway, I mostly started this Thread to show you that climbing towers up to 1500’, but usually under 300’ isn’t the only scary things in that business. The towers in PA, NJ, DE, MD, and NY are very often out in the sticks, and I’m talking Way back in the Sticks in PA !!!
The picture below was taken at a Tower near Scranton, in NorthEast PA.
It’s a picture of a Metal box (Telco) that they have at the bottom of All Cell Phone Towers.
Often times after opening it very carefully, they find a couple of Mice, or a Rat, and often Wasp Nests & sometimes a Hornet’s Nest.
This time it was a couple of Rattle Snakes. (See Picture below)
There's actually two Snakes in there, but I can't tell which parts are from which Snake.
That’s when they pack it up & go home, and call the Cell Phone Company they’re working for at the time.
One time they were doing about a 3 day job, and the Tower Shelter had been placed over a couple of Dens, both RattleSnakes & Copperheads. We couldn’t believe they were so close to each other. However the Customer (Sprint) called in a Snake Specialist (A Woman), and she stayed there for those 3 days too, so nobody got Bitten, and no Snakes got Shot or anything. LOL
BTW: I hate Snakes, as does my Son “Bear Jr”
Bear
I know many of you guys know that My Son, Bear Junior does a lot of Woodworking, but many of you may not know that his Full Time Job is his Tower Corporation he started more than 20 years ago.
He used to actually build the towers, but most of the work they did was installing & changing out Antennas on Cell Phone Towers. At one point he had 13 employees, including his Mom, Mrs Bear, who does all of his paperwork, insurance, accounting, payroll, and all that type of stuff. About 18 years ago, I closed my Cabinet Shop, and started helping him in his Tower Business too, while we had our Log house built right next to his property & Tower warehouse. That was good until my Agent Orange Heart Problems pretty much stopped me in my tracks in 2012, after a botched Open-Heart Fiasco.
Now Bear Jr's Subbing most of his Tower Jobs, and only has 5 Employees, including himself. So that’s why he started his woodworking side-line.
Well, anyway, I mostly started this Thread to show you that climbing towers up to 1500’, but usually under 300’ isn’t the only scary things in that business. The towers in PA, NJ, DE, MD, and NY are very often out in the sticks, and I’m talking Way back in the Sticks in PA !!!
The picture below was taken at a Tower near Scranton, in NorthEast PA.
It’s a picture of a Metal box (Telco) that they have at the bottom of All Cell Phone Towers.
Often times after opening it very carefully, they find a couple of Mice, or a Rat, and often Wasp Nests & sometimes a Hornet’s Nest.
This time it was a couple of Rattle Snakes. (See Picture below)
There's actually two Snakes in there, but I can't tell which parts are from which Snake.
That’s when they pack it up & go home, and call the Cell Phone Company they’re working for at the time.
One time they were doing about a 3 day job, and the Tower Shelter had been placed over a couple of Dens, both RattleSnakes & Copperheads. We couldn’t believe they were so close to each other. However the Customer (Sprint) called in a Snake Specialist (A Woman), and she stayed there for those 3 days too, so nobody got Bitten, and no Snakes got Shot or anything. LOL
BTW: I hate Snakes, as does my Son “Bear Jr”
Bear
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