Makes me recall breakdown, FD 1960; I had a TH4 in one hand which I had just
popped off the mast atop a forty footer; a "helper" decided to undo a rope
guy from the screw-in anchor and the tower began the ol' "timber!" move -
the "helper" retensioned, and the tower stabilized an instant before I would
have tossed the TH4 and gone into survival mode.
-----Original Message-----
From: Hank <hank@discovernet.net>
To: towertalk@contesting.com <towertalk@contesting.com>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 12:41 AM
Subject: [TowerTalk] Re: Tower Talk Digest V2 #237
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>
>
>>Hank,
>>Can you tell us how the tower fell? There may be something to learn from
>the
>>accident.
>>Stewart GM4AFF
>>
>
>All I can say is exactly what I said when it happened; we were darn lucky
>that nobody was hurt! As to exactly what happened, lets just say that a
guy
>was misidentified as a dipole's haulyard at the beginning of breakdown...
>
>Hank, N1YDY
>
>
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