glance at any modern city with a bird's-eye view, we can be surprised saturation of its infrastructure.Almost wall in the wall with housing can be located housing a variety of institutions, the territory of industrial plants, high-rise business centers, department stores and other facilities.Not to mention the numerous bridges and various towers.Truly a housing density of modern cities is amazing.All this makes it difficult to carry out construction and repair works.The more developed territory, the more difficult to use special equipment.
for this and there steeplejack works, which are often carried out by people with extreme preparation - mountaineers, climbers, cavers, have decided to make his hobby a dangerous main specialty.They successfully replaced and high efficiency cumbersome mechanisms reliable rope, belt installation and virtuoso technique works on a steep wall "concrete jungle".
Although now every day offer more training centers for industrial climbers still steeplejack work in most cases performed by athletes who do not just go up the highest mountain peaks and down into the abyss of the deepest caves.Of course, they all receive special pre-construction skills work at height.
working at heights, in other words, steeplejack work - it's different operations performed at the level of not less than five meters above the ground, floor or working platform.That is, conditions of work, where a man and his insurance is left alone with a space extending below.Dangerous job!Therefore, and safety when working at height puts special demands on safety.The principal means of protecting against falls, according to the rules of aerial work are safety belt and safety rope.For head protection provides a special helmet, which should be checked beforehand, and which must have a certificate of quality.
steeplejack work have their own interesting story.Thus, even in times of severe blockade of Leningrad climbers group (now would call them industrial climbers) performs a complicated task to disguise the golden dome of the cathedral, which deprived the Luftwaffe pilots opportunities to conduct precision bombing of churches in St. Petersburg.Now we can only guess what shape would now have cultural and spiritual capital of Russia, if not for the selfless and heroic work the first domestic industrial climbers.
interesting fact is that tall steeplejack works were officially legalized in Russia in 2001, the year when the profession was entered in the corresponding register, and thereby legalized.Although such a difficult and dangerous profession, of course, it existed long before its official recognition.Today
services industrial climbers in high demand for performance and installation, and the facade, and the restoration and cleaning works.And also when lifting bulky cargo to remote places.Often the only professional industrial climbers having psychological preparation for work in support-free space and special skills, the strength to mount a banner ad, clear the roof of a tall building from the ice and snow, or wash the windows of a skyscraper.
