As the wind maintenance season comes to a close, it is time to plan for the spring! Safety and efficiency are critical investments for every wind site. In the United States, and most of the western hemisphere, technicians must climb ladders to get to their job sites. This is an unnecessary task and also leads to injuries and down time. Uptime hosts Joel Saxum and Allen Hall visited with Gio Scialdone, President of 3S Lift Americas, in New Orleans this spring to learn more about their Climb Auto System and how it improves efficiency and reduces technician wear and tear.







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3S Lift Gio Scialdone



Allen Hall: Welcome back to the Uptime podcast. I'm your host, Allen Hall. Well, we've been busy here at the Uptime Podcast this summer and we thought it would be a good idea to relive or re-listen to, uh, earlier podcasts with guests that you may have missed. We thought that it would be great to bring Brack Geodon in three s Lift, and we spoke with Geo at American Clean Power, uh, earlier this spring in New Orleans of all places.



That interview I think is really good 'cause it highlights all the things that Three S Lift is doing to make technicians safer and to get up and down those wind turbines easier with their climb auto system. So if you have missed this episode earlier this spring, no problem 'cause we're gonna bring it back to you.



Here is Geo Schone with three s Lift.



Gio Scialdone: We're here again at 



Allen Hall: uh, a C P 2023 in New Orleans, Louisiana with Geo Shaone from three s Lift. If you don't know three s lift, you're missing out on so much. Uh, three s Lift is about saving technicians and making sure they get up and down, uh, towers safely and, and uh, efficiently. 



Gio Scialdone: Gio, welcome back to the program actually.



Thank you for having me, Allen. Joel, nice to to meet you. You as well. 



Allen Hall: This has been a really busy show compared to San Antonio last year. Yeah, I think so. Uh, I think much roughly doubled the amount of people from what I can tell. You, I assume you guys have been busy. I've been by your booth a couple of times.



So there's a lot of people thinking 



Gio Scialdone: about technicians this week. I think people have to be thinking about technicians. If you, if you, you look backwards and you look forwards in terms of the operational existing towers. You have to think about technicians for your existing fleets. Yeah. You look at the forward projections of the, the, the build out plan.



You have to think about who are the people that are gonna work at these places. Um, We talked about the the competition, indirect competition that some of these workers could. Go be an Amazon truck driver and make 25 or 30 bucks out. Yeah, absolutely. They don't have to climb a winter on a tower. Yeah. You know, that's tough work.



So there's some competition out there, not just inside the industry, but certainly outside. 



Joel Saxum: So we know that, like across the industry, of course, it's been the word for a long time. We've talked to a lot of people around the show about just the shortage of technicians. Yeah. Right. And everybody, and you're starting to see, which is great.



A lot of companies pop up, trainee. Hey, we're opening a G W O training center. We're opening this training center. We're gonna,