If what you are calling a winch is the wire down the centre of the ladder it is a latchway fall arrest system. You wear a latchway unit on your sternum point on your climbing harness and in the event of an accident the system locks off and you fall about 6 inches instead of to your death! The system uses energy absorption built into the wire so you check it at the base with a spinning disc. If the disc isn't free spinning, the tensioner is deployed and it isn't safe to climb using it.
The steel cable seen at 3:00 is a fall prevention cable. The user clips to this with a travelling device attached to the chest ring of a safety harness, it uses a one-way clutch that ascends freely but must be released manually for descent. Edit: just noticed somebody already addressed this.
I have seen these in the past in Westchester County, New York. One was in the median of a parkway. Also, back in an apartment building back in the 1990's as cellular was expanding, they rented out a corner of the roof for antennas.
In our village Hutchinson 3 recently tried to get permission for a mast. Their proposal was a massive mast right in the centre of a green area next to some houses. I campaigned to ensure that people weren't saying dumb things about the dangers of 5G, but I also spoke out against it because it was bloody ugly. Ultimately it was rejected on aesthetic grounds and I am happy it wasn't rejected for any other reason to avoid setting precedent here.
There’s an article on the Daily Mail online today , about the Queensferry Phone Mast which is 80ft tall and has been disguised and people are complaining about it as it looks like a toilet brush.
In Johannesburg I was taken to a Vodacom stealth site. The tower was a palm tree and the cellsite housing was disguised as a big granite rock. I had to look very hard to identify it. I was told the local telcom engineers could not identify it when they went to install the E1 circuit. I believe back in the 90s the South African Company, Brolaz Projects (now defunct) were the world leader in stealth sites.
That might have been the same site that I was working on for a Vodacom trial some years back. I started climbing the ladder inside - I'm a network engineer rather than a field engineer but I was out on the site. I'm quite a big chap and as I climbed the ladder I noticed that the tree was getting narrower. I got about half way up and though better of going any further! I came back down again.
@@paulsengupta971 I seem to recall it was near Sandton in the grounds of a corporation. I forget the name. I was visiting Brolaz and Siemens from overseas.
Nice one Lewis. I once (2006 or 2007) visited the Alan Dick company just outside of Cheltenham for a radar project I was working on. While I was there they showed me some "trees" to hide mobile phone antennas. There are even mock palm trees. I am reliably informed that Swiss railway platform signs contain mobile phone antennas. You don''t see them anywhere. (But you do see VHF/UHF antennas for the maintenance crews). All the best, Rob in Switzerland
A town across from this site in Mottram is Glossop. The BT telephone exchange in the town centre has stealth aerials designed to look like a flag pole. On closer inspection you can see the bottom fed cables.
That's exactly what it is. It's known as a safety cable, and the climber has a device known as a gripper on the front of the harness. The gripper slides upwards with no problems, but grips if the downward force is too great (ex. a fall). They're a pain when coming down, as they will stick up pretty easily (it is their job, but it would be nice to have an easier journey down without swearing at the gripper every 5 feet...)
Hey Louis. That cable in the middle of the ladder. Is a fall arrest safety cable for the tower climbers. The fall arrested clips to their harness and slides along the cable. If the climber falls then the arrestor locks in place.
Looks like one of those big box artificial Christmas Tree's. Here in the States, operators, who have the misfortune to live in areas "run" by homeowners associations who generally forbid antennas, have to get very creative with disguising their antenna's.
concealed transmitters are interesting. a friend used to live near a church that had a fake flagpole out front. it was extremely thick and had a large ornamental topper ball... it was like trying to hide a telephone pole as a flagpole by painting it white and putting a ball topper on it. never saw a flag on it, but you could spot the thick cabling going in at the base, and an auxiliary cabinet off under a tree out on the side of the building.
I was stood on the apron at Manchester Airport up at the far end of the new pier they built, with line of sight to a new 5G mast, getting _gigabit_ download speeds over 5G. On a remote stand with said pier in the way I still managed 500Mbps down. I'm kinda jealous that my workplace has better internet via cellular than my home does via fibre broadband. Now, every time I see this specific type of mast I feel good because I know I'm gonna get fast internet near it.
You find these trees since years all over, e.g. in touristy areas in Spain ... but the design with the printed bricks on the cover is hilarious ... never seen anything like it.
I can think of a structure I was involved with that appeared to sprout an extra floor at the top, it was a brick patterned glassfibre disguise to conceal antennas.
There was one put on the Felinheli (Port Dinorwic) bypass linking Bangor to Caernarfon years ago, not sure if it's still "a tree" but I'll make a point of checking next time I pass that way!
Hi Lewis, they do look crap as they are never the same colour as any of the other trees near by, they also install antennas on Churches should we call them cell towers or bell towers ? they try to colour in the feeders but the paint always comes off but only people like us would notice.
Hi there ,I've seen a "tree " just passed York on the a64 and at the east of the road there's a petrol station that had a mast in the road side sine that shows the price of the petrol it's been removed now but the elements could be seen when there was damage to it also the control equipment was right next to the sine I can't remember the operator it did have a sine on the box
the sneakiest antenna i have seen is on a council house up here in pontefract, its a black cb radio antenna about just over a metre, on the end is a fake plastic tv yaji. it looks just like all the others in the street. as the house is on a high ridge he gets great distance too.
If you had a Pirate Station transmitting on 600Khz then what about the Tree Antenna shown on W5JGV's website just don't know how long it will be up as the Guy that set it up is a silent key now.
In my hometown back in Philippines in my area there's not much FM reception received because of mountains only local radios stations that's so very few and some of them are not so good tho I can create one because there's a lot of open frequency that are not used no treat to the NTC
I always thought that the Church of England missed a trick in not offering its church towers as antenna locations. In the fens in particular around me, which is a pretty good uniform malthusian plain, the villages are uniformly spread on the high ground ideal for cells locations! 😂
I live in a rural area of england, they do do a lot more of them, they have just gotten significantly better at making them look like actual trees I was actualy wondering for a while where all the phone antenas were going untill I realised on a drive one day that tree one right across from my home was fake
I'm a tin foil hat enthusiast, having owned a 121 M200 flip up antenna fone from 1995 - 2000. I 'Gotts' free calls after 7pm every day to my own n neighbouring exchanges; ie 01992 n London 0181 in those days. So, several hours on the jelly bone in the evenings, tho not every evening, due to headaches resulting from 900MHz rf!! My friend Len Over who wrote articles for CB magazines in the 1980s suffered from a bleed on the brain due to his 121 M200. Others report very warm cheeks when using mobile fones. Wireless routers at 2.5GHz also affect me n others. I'm happy to report that 934MHz uhf CB use, didn't give me any problems at all, as the antennas were always well away from me on the roof of the car. 😉
BUY. THE. TREE. You know it would make great content. You donate it to a wetlands area as a 'hide' but put some mast in there for tracking animals. The nature show made possible by the mast vantage point pays for the venture and all the animals survive.
If what you are calling a winch is the wire down the centre of the ladder it is a latchway fall arrest system. You wear a latchway unit on your sternum point on your climbing harness and in the event of an accident the system locks off and you fall about 6 inches instead of to your death! The system uses energy absorption built into the wire so you check it at the base with a spinning disc. If the disc isn't free spinning, the tensioner is deployed and it isn't safe to climb using it.
Yea what he said!
Yes was about to say the same thing although getting our engineers to clip in and out of them is another story.
That's more likely a safety cable for whoever is climbing the ladder to latch a safety harness onto Lewis
You’re right - it’s part of a fall arrest system that the person climbing the tower clips onto.
That's exactly what it is.
It's a Latchways fall arrest system
The steel cable seen at 3:00 is a fall prevention cable. The user clips to this with a travelling device attached to the chest ring of a safety harness, it uses a one-way clutch that ascends freely but must be released manually for descent. Edit: just noticed somebody already addressed this.
This.
Yea! WTF he said!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have seen these in the past in Westchester
County, New York. One was in the median of
a parkway.
Also, back in an apartment building back in
the 1990's as cellular was expanding, they
rented out a corner of the roof for antennas.
The one on the parkway never fooled anyone. 😃
Its good to see these ariel companys still branching out
In our village Hutchinson 3 recently tried to get permission for a mast. Their proposal was a massive mast right in the centre of a green area next to some houses.
I campaigned to ensure that people weren't saying dumb things about the dangers of 5G, but I also spoke out against it because it was bloody ugly.
Ultimately it was rejected on aesthetic grounds and I am happy it wasn't rejected for any other reason to avoid setting precedent here.
There’s an article on the Daily Mail online today , about the Queensferry Phone Mast which is 80ft tall and has been disguised and people are complaining about it as it looks like a toilet brush.
In Johannesburg I was taken to a Vodacom stealth site. The tower was a palm tree and the cellsite housing was disguised as a big granite rock. I had to look very hard to identify it. I was told the local telcom engineers could not identify it when they went to install the E1 circuit. I believe back in the 90s the South African Company, Brolaz Projects (now defunct) were the world leader in stealth sites.
That might have been the same site that I was working on for a Vodacom trial some years back. I started climbing the ladder inside - I'm a network engineer rather than a field engineer but I was out on the site. I'm quite a big chap and as I climbed the ladder I noticed that the tree was getting narrower. I got about half way up and though better of going any further! I came back down again.
@@paulsengupta971 I seem to recall it was near Sandton in the grounds of a corporation. I forget the name. I was visiting Brolaz and Siemens from overseas.
Nice one Lewis. I once (2006 or 2007) visited the Alan Dick company just outside of Cheltenham for a radar project I was working on. While I was there they showed me some "trees" to hide mobile phone antennas. There are even mock palm trees. I am reliably informed that Swiss railway platform signs contain mobile phone antennas. You don''t see them anywhere. (But you do see VHF/UHF antennas for the maintenance crews). All the best, Rob in Switzerland
and just down the road in Gloucester is FLI who make many a mast.....
Petrol station signs used to have 2G masts as wll
A town across from this site in Mottram is Glossop. The BT telephone exchange in the town centre has stealth aerials designed to look like a flag pole. On closer inspection you can see the bottom fed cables.
The center cable on the ladder is probably a "Fall line" typical on climbing tower ladders. The center cable is attached to the climbers harness.
That's exactly what it is. It's known as a safety cable, and the climber has a device known as a gripper on the front of the harness. The gripper slides upwards with no problems, but grips if the downward force is too great (ex. a fall). They're a pain when coming down, as they will stick up pretty easily (it is their job, but it would be nice to have an easier journey down without swearing at the gripper every 5 feet...)
Hey Louis. That cable in the middle of the ladder. Is a fall arrest safety cable for the tower climbers. The fall arrested clips to their harness and slides along the cable. If the climber falls then the arrestor locks in place.
Looks like one of those big box artificial Christmas Tree's. Here in the States, operators, who have the misfortune to live in areas "run" by homeowners associations who generally forbid antennas, have to get very creative with disguising their antenna's.
concealed transmitters are interesting. a friend used to live near a church that had a fake flagpole out front. it was extremely thick and had a large ornamental topper ball... it was like trying to hide a telephone pole as a flagpole by painting it white and putting a ball topper on it.
never saw a flag on it, but you could spot the thick cabling going in at the base, and an auxiliary cabinet off under a tree out on the side of the building.
I was stood on the apron at Manchester Airport up at the far end of the new pier they built, with line of sight to a new 5G mast, getting _gigabit_ download speeds over 5G. On a remote stand with said pier in the way I still managed 500Mbps down. I'm kinda jealous that my workplace has better internet via cellular than my home does via fibre broadband. Now, every time I see this specific type of mast I feel good because I know I'm gonna get fast internet near it.
You find these trees since years all over, e.g. in touristy areas in Spain ... but the design with the printed bricks on the cover is hilarious ... never seen anything like it.
You can buy satellite dishes painted with a brick pattern to disguise them. You can also buy transparent ones.
I can think of a structure I was involved with that appeared to sprout an extra floor at the top, it was a brick patterned glassfibre disguise to conceal antennas.
There was one put on the Felinheli (Port Dinorwic) bypass linking Bangor to Caernarfon years ago, not sure if it's still "a tree" but I'll make a point of checking next time I pass that way!
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Hi Lewis, they do look crap as they are never the same colour as any of the other trees near by, they also install antennas on Churches should we call them cell towers or bell towers ? they try to colour in the feeders but the paint always comes off but only people like us would notice.
There used to be a sparse tree one East of York by the A64, don't know if it's still there. Didn't fool anyone, though.
Here in the Philadelphia area they seem to disguise cellular towers as very large flagpoles.
We have cell tree aplenty in the Pacific Northwest of the US.
I guess these disguised masts are for trunk calls!
That dead tree mast is brilliant.
Hi there ,I've seen a "tree " just passed York on the a64 and at the east of the road there's a petrol station that had a mast in the road side sine that shows the price of the petrol it's been removed now but the elements could be seen when there was damage to it also the control equipment was right next to the sine I can't remember the operator it did have a sine on the box
Great article Lewis ......I love spotting a sneaky twig
We'll have to get you one of those for Christmas Lewis 🌲
the sneakiest antenna i have seen is on a council house up here in pontefract, its a black cb radio antenna about just over a metre, on the end is a fake plastic tv yaji.
it looks just like all the others in the street. as the house is on a high ridge he gets great distance too.
If you had a Pirate Station transmitting on 600Khz then what about the Tree Antenna shown on W5JGV's website just don't know how long it will be up as the Guy that set it up is a silent key now.
In my hometown back in Philippines in my area there's not much FM reception received because of mountains only local radios stations that's so very few and some of them are not so good tho I can create one because there's a lot of open frequency that are not used no treat to the NTC
I always thought that the Church of England missed a trick in not offering its church towers as antenna locations. In the fens in particular around me, which is a pretty good uniform malthusian plain, the villages are uniformly spread on the high ground ideal for cells locations! 😂
Many, many churches house cell stations.
I like the fake tree ones. I wish they did a lot more of them, especially in rural areas.
I live in a rural area of england, they do do a lot more of them, they have just gotten significantly better at making them look like actual trees
I was actualy wondering for a while where all the phone antenas were going untill I realised on a drive one day that tree one right across from my home was fake
They will be putting moustaches and glasses on the next !
In France we have also some trees like that .
That really made my day! Thanks
Like the andrews heliax coax cable in the mast they only use the best gear!!
It's one of those trees with a hollow inside or it's very rotted.
The outro music 🥰
One at side of A625 , what three words location leave intent dine
Fake tree @1.24 is like "hey wassup bruh". It's screaming "i'm here" :)
My brother worked on the development of the tree antenna for Alan Dick and Co. He might see this and comment.
Cool! I have some of the "trees" LOL
Wood you believe it?
That's an auto breaking fall cable.
Good video👏👍
WOW . VERY CREATIVE. FIBERGLASS IS INVISIBLE TO RADIO WAVES.
good for trunking😆
What's up my fellow trees? So... anyway... Photosynthesis, am I right?
This is another Michael Jackson stealth transmitter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I can spot those fake trees 20 miles away
I have one near me that's a cross
With ths or whatever Christ's name is on it
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Cancer has increased a lot from 1in4 to 1in2 since the 90s so one does wonder why
I'm a tin foil hat enthusiast, having owned a 121 M200 flip up antenna fone from 1995 - 2000. I 'Gotts' free calls after 7pm every day to my own n neighbouring exchanges; ie 01992 n London 0181 in those days. So, several hours on the jelly bone in the evenings, tho not every evening, due to headaches resulting from 900MHz rf!! My friend Len Over who wrote articles for CB magazines in the 1980s suffered from a bleed on the brain due to his 121 M200. Others report very warm cheeks when using mobile fones. Wireless routers at 2.5GHz also affect me n others. I'm happy to report that 934MHz uhf CB use, didn't give me any problems at all, as the antennas were always well away from me on the roof of the car. 😉
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BUY. THE. TREE.
You know it would make great content.
You donate it to a wetlands area as a 'hide' but put some mast in there for tracking animals.
The nature show made possible by the mast vantage point pays for the venture and all the animals survive.
There's one off the A565 on Farm lane 53.5308092,-3.0369432,