Steeplejack work: features of industrial mountaineering

A Glance at any modern city from a bird's eye view, one can marvel at the saturation of its infrastructure. Almost wall to wall with residential houses can be the case a variety of institutions, territories of industrial enterprises, high-rise business centers, Department stores and other objects. Not to mention the numerous bridges and a variety of rigs. The true density of modern cities is striking. All this makes it difficult to carry out construction and repair works. The more landscaped area, the harder it is to use special equipment.

For this and there steeplejack work, often conducted by people with extreme training-climbers, climbers, spelunkers, who decided to make his dangerous hobby basic speciality. They successfully high performance replace bulky mechanisms reliable rope, mounting belt and virtuosic technique on a steep wall “concrete jungle”.

Although it is every day more and more the training centers of industrial climbers, still steeplejack work in most cases, performed by athletes, who have repeatedly ascended the highest mountain peaks or down in the abyss of the deepest caves. Of course, they all get special pre-construction skills to work at height.

Working at height, in other words, steeplejack work – the various operations performed at least five meters above the ground, floor or working platform. That is, such conditions of work where man and his insurance alone with space at the bottom. A dangerous job! Therefore, labor protection when working at height places particular demands on safety. The main protecting from falling by means of, according to the rules of aerial work, are safety belt and safety rope. Head protection provides for a special helmet, which should be previously checked and which shall bear the certificate of quality.

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Steeplejack works have an interesting history. So, in severe blockade days in Leningrad, a group of climbers (who would call them industrial climbers) performed the most complicated task in the disguise of the Golden domes of the cathedrals, which deprived the pilots of the Luftwaffe the opportunity to conduct precision bombing of the Petersburg churches. Now we can only guess about what the appearance would now have the cultural and spiritual capital of Russia, if not for the selfless and heroic work of the first domestic industrial climbers.

Interesting fact that the altitude steeplejack works was officially legalized in Russia in 2001-m to year when the profession was entered in the register and thereby legalized. Although such difficult and dangerous specialty, of course, existed long before its official recognition.

Today, services of industrial alpinists are extremely much in demand to perform and installation, and the facade, and restoration and cleaning work. And also, when lifting bulky loads in hard to reach places. Often only professional industrial climber with psychological training to work in unsupported space and special skills can make installation of an advertising banner, clear the roof of a high building of ice and snow or wash Windows of the skyscraper.