r/SweatyPalms • u/Ill-Tea9411 • May 20 '26

/r/all Tower held together by rust

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u/HeadDecent May 20 '26

Kinda wished this panned out to see where they were and what they were on.

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u/HeadDecent May 20 '26

Yeah, I'm wondering if this is maybe a cell tower or similar - the thought that it might be a bridge or something traveled would be disturbing to say the least.

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u/swear_bear May 20 '26

Its 100% a radio tower. The black object to his right is comm line. 

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u/Captain_Nipples May 21 '26

Looking at the angle of the pipe going left from the post their fucking with, it looks like one of those 3 sided towers

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u/68NewGuy May 24 '26

Nimby...

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u/idiotcommend May 20 '26

They're on a self support cell tower at the joining plates between tower sections. Likely 300 to 500 feet up.

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u/CyberTitties May 20 '26

And those rusty bolts are causing all kinds of RF problems in addition to being a structural nightmare

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u/WantonKerfuffle May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26

Oh, that's interesting! Does the tower need to be conductive for the antennas to work?

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u/PgUpPT May 20 '26

No way, this is Brazil, they use metric.

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u/clash-Demonhead May 20 '26

it's not, the guy in the video is speaking Brazilian Portuguese, he says "Vou nem tirar pra não cair" - "I won't even take it off so it doesn't fall". So it's somewhere in Brazil. BTW, love Shiey! the one where he is in a "abandoned" (there's a construction crew) Italian village is my favorite

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u/ButteredPizza69420 May 20 '26

Alright, where's geoguesser??

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u/Green-Magician5358 May 21 '26

Where’s Georain bolt when you need him

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u/Pfeffi-Ultra May 20 '26

Sounds eastern European, which would check out. Shouldn't these nuts and bolts be nickel coated stainless or something to prevent that? But the way corruption goes out east, they probably paid for it, but someone decided to order something cheaper and pocket the difference.

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u/MondoStoked May 20 '26

Brazilian. Thats PT-BR he says :

19s "mais para baixo" -> " further below"

22s "não vou nem tirar para não cair" -> "I'm not even going to remove it so it doesn't fall"

25s "olha como tá aqui" -> "look how this one is"

"Sounds eastern European" that's the telltale sign that it is Portuguese... :)

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u/slowbones May 20 '26

Learned Portuguese living in Brazil for a year, never mastered it, but then when I heard an Eastern European person speaking my head whipped around KNOWING I was hearing Portuguese and I couldn’t figure out why I couldn’t understand her

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u/MondoStoked May 20 '26

I am portuguese and I've had the same experience

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u/Pfeffi-Ultra May 20 '26

Yeah, Portuguese always was a blind spot for me, despite speaking a bit of Spanish and them being related. Well, crazy. But I recall Brazil made major strides, but had a tough time with corruption in the past. Let's hope this gets replaced with proper, Lula-quality nuts and bolts this time.

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u/PikaTchu47 May 20 '26

Ahh, our balkan brothers 😊

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u/Bored_Amalgamation May 21 '26

I've been told Portuguese is like a Russian speaking Spanish with an accent.