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[Towertalk] WARNING: Do not try this at home!

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Subject: [Towertalk] WARNING: Do not try this at home!
From: llindblom@juno.com (Larry L Lindblom)
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 00:38:42 +0000
And, if this was a commercial job I think OSHA could have nailed them
with a hefty fine.


On Thu, 19 Sep 2002 18:54:00 -0400 "Paul McInnish - Home"
<k4bet@bellsouth.net> writes:
> They were worse than insane... how about totally stupid!  
> Professional?  Ha!
> NO WAY!  Those are the idiots that give the decent safety minded 
> tower
> professional a bad name!
> 
> Betcha if their insurance carrier had been sent photos of their 
> stupid
> stunts, their insurance would have been cancelled in seconds!!!  And 
> every
> other carrier would know about it and refuse them insurance from 
> that point
> on!!!
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "tttt ccccc" <k3hx@juno.com>
> To: <dlabat@tcinternet.net>
> Cc: <towertalk@contesting.com>
> Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 6:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [Towertalk] WARNING: Do not try this at home!
> 
> 
> This "professional" is insane!
> 
> On Thu, 19 Sep 2002 09:44:54 -0500 "Dave LaBat" 
> <dlabat@tcinternet.net>
> writes:
> > You know how 25G legs get compressed by overtorquing the bolts? 
> Well a
> > professional showed me how you get the sections seperated.. you 
> pull
> > the
> > bolts then climb up on the now unbolted section and rock it loose,
> > at over
> > 100 feet no less. I was worried he was going to take both of us 
> off
> > the
> > tower!
> > Dave KØXH
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <Cqtestk4xs@aol.com>
> > To: <K7LXC@aol.com>
> > Cc: <Towertalk@contesting.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 8:11 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Towertalk] WARNING: Do not try this at home!
> >
> >
> > > I once saw a pair of PROFESSIONAL? (really) tower installers put
> > up 120
> > feet
> > > of Rohn 55....unguyed.  I now know it can be done...but I 
> wouldn't
> > have
> > > wanted to be up there.
> > > Bill K4XS
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