Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 23:19:31 -0600 (CST)
From: K5CG <k5cg@hamoperator.org>
To: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Antenna climbing harness (Rigging)
I was 21 "back then" working for LeBlanc & Royle out of Oakville Ontario. Free
climbing inside towers and stopping every 50 feet was standard operating
procedure. Unless you could ride up on the cable...
http://www.hamoperator.org/pics/CKVR/
I used to climb up on the CKVR Channel 3 SuperTurnstile "Batwings" at the top
of that one. Different rules today.
73
Danny
K5CG
SKCC #14257
## A buddy and myself bought several hundred feet of used L+R tower from L+R
in vancouver bc. 30 inches center to center, and aprx 34 inches corner to
corner. 20 ft sections weighed 250 lbs if W braced, and 350 lbs if X braced.
They were one big meccano set, with hundreds of .375 inch bolts used. 10 on
each leg splice, 30 in total..every 20 ft. I free climbed the inside of the
tower, then belted in, when I got to the level I wanted. I had it up between
1980 and 1990, at 2 x different homes..then had to sell it, when I moved south.
Its still in use. One of the best sectional towers ever built imo. They would
fully collapse down to just pieces, which makes it easy to ship. A local, 120
miles north of me has one up 160 ft, 18 inch per side, that rotates. The steel
they used was superb quality.
Jim VE7RF
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