How do they do that?

[unclesyd]

Work on wind turbines

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/25/business/25climb.html?scp=1&sq=rope workers&st=cse

 

[JLSeagull]

Whether called absailers or alpinistas, it is common in some industries to use crafts people trained with mountain climbing gear to perform maintenance where a scaffold is not practical. We used absailers and trained technicians in Mexico for an offshore project. Rarely but I occasionally see "dopes on a rope" ;-) onshore in the USA. I think that I would have enjoyed this trade when youthful.

 

[cranky108]

So how are they thinking that this will increase signifecently the need for ropes? Or is this just a paper editor without a brain?

 

[ewh]

I missed that... I think it may be an increased need for ropers, not ropes.

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