- 21. Re: [TowerTalk] Climbing (score: 1)
- Author: ve5ra@sasktel.net
- Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 09:13:39 -0600
- Mike, It's good to hear from people who are realistic and have common sense. Free climbing has been around for thousands of years and will continue for many more. Some folks get all twisted and bent
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2014-10/msg00007.html (22,985 bytes)
- 22. [TowerTalk] Climbing (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Thomson" <jim.thom@telus.net>
- Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2014 19:54:51 -0700
- Mike, It's good to hear from people who are realistic and have common sense. Free climbing has been around for thousands of years and will continue for many more. Some folks get all twisted and bent
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2014-10/msg00023.html (8,319 bytes)
- 23. Re: [TowerTalk] Climbing (score: 1)
- Author: ve5ra@sasktel.net
- Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2014 11:19:37 -0600
- Jim, Some of these "safety devices" are good in theory. But can anyone tell me how many lives they have saved in the ham community? How many lives have been saved with a full body harness or the stee
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2014-10/msg00056.html (8,645 bytes)
- 24. Re: [TowerTalk] Climbing (score: 1)
- Author: Big Don <bigdon39@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 06:14:55 -0700
- There are references to hanging in a harness cutting off critical circulation and causing fatality. But if that has ever happened on a ham tower, have not seen it reported here. By comparison, there
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2014-10/msg00057.html (9,311 bytes)
- 25. Re: [TowerTalk] Climbing (score: 1)
- Author: "Larry" <lknain@nc.rr.com>
- Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 10:09:14 -0400
- Usually the only statistics to be had I'd bet are for ones that didn't use the "safety devices". If I use one of these devices and slip or fall and get saved by the device it is not going to be repor
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2014-10/msg00060.html (9,941 bytes)
- 26. Re: [TowerTalk] Climbing (score: 1)
- Author: Kim Elmore <cw_de_n5op@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 11:30:04 -0500
- I don't see the point I trying to prove that wearing a harness is hazardous. If you choose not to wear one, fine. But don't try to convince me it's dangerous or a waste of my time. I preflight my air
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2014-10/msg00062.html (10,234 bytes)
- 27. [TowerTalk] Climbing (score: 1)
- Author: EdK0KLl <edk0kl@centurytel.net>
- Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 16:01:43 -0500
- Actually folks you are missing the point ... in practice the safety equipment enables a person to work on the tower with /*both hands*/, i.e. you can let go of the iron and do some 2- handed work. Th
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2014-10/msg00067.html (8,305 bytes)
- 28. Re: [TowerTalk] Climbing (score: 1)
- Author: "John Sloop" <hawkeye78299@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 19:34:27 -0500
- I have been monitoring this thread for it seems like over 2 months and cannot help myself but I must bring some common sense and insight to this audience. Now that I'm 85 when the temperature is abov
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2014-10/msg00068.html (10,776 bytes)
- 29. Re: [TowerTalk] Climbing (score: 1)
- Author: Steve Maki <lists@oakcom.org>
- Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 20:42:27 -0400
- Sounds like you've had some attitude (altitude) adjustment tonight. I agree. -Steve K8LX Now that I'm 85 when the temperature is above 90 degrees I limit my free climbing to 300 ft. and 700 ft. when
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2014-10/msg00069.html (9,518 bytes)
- 30. [TowerTalk] Climbing (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Thomson" <jim.thom@telus.net>
- Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 01:59:01 -0700
- Actually folks you are missing the point ... in practice the safety equipment enables a person to work on the tower with /*both hands*/, i.e. you can let go of the iron and do some 2- handed work. Ed
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2014-10/msg00075.html (8,501 bytes)
- 31. Re: [TowerTalk] Climbing (score: 1)
- Author: ve5ra@sasktel.net
- Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 16:02:43 -0600
- I want to make sure everyone understands that I do use safety equipment when working on a tower. Ed you spoke the magic words "acceptable risk". Everyone has a different level of acceptable risk i
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2014-10/msg00092.html (9,576 bytes)
- 32. Re: [TowerTalk] Climbing (score: 1)
- Author: Donald Chester <k4kyv@hotmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 06:55:31 +0000
- tower, with the locking device, will ensure you dont fall ... when going up or down the tower. lanyards. Thats about as simple and safe as it gets. The steel cable running up the side of the tower w
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2014-10/msg00414.html (13,313 bytes)
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