Working at 90 feet on Rohn 25 with guys at 35 and 68 feet was just plain nasty.
Took every bit of mental teeth gritting I could muster to convince myself I was
not swinging into the ground.
Wasn't any better or worse at 60 feet with guys at 35.
Then again, maybe that's just me.
73, Guy K2AV
>
> From: "Mike Gilmer, N2MG"<n2mg@eham.net>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
> Date: 2002/10/31 Thu PM 12:01:24 EST
> To: towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: [Towertalk] Guy Lengths, climbing unguyed tower sections
>
> I've found (and others have agreed) that when on a tower that has one
> guy set installed (say at 31') and you are working on the second, yet-
> uninstalled, set (say at 62') this oscillation is the worst. Seems the
> fact that you have an equal amount of tower above and below the one guy
> set is nasty. Once you have two guy sets in place, being at the 3rd
> set (although higher) is less traumatizing. ;-)
>
> Mike N2MG
>
> N4ZR wrote:
> > I've been on top of 4 unguyed sections -- well, guyed at 31,
> > next guy set being installed at 62, so I was 8 feet down from
> > the top of the 4th section. That SLOOOW oscillation convinces
> > you that you're probably about to go for Mr. Toad's wild ride.
> > No thanks!
>
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