Author: Herbert Schoenbohm <herbert.schoenbohm@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2015 05:30:22 -0400
It is always good if you use this solo method to clamp the section with Gorilla hooks to a fall arrest cable (bungee type) to the section before you lift it in place. But you can even use a short rop
What scares me about using a winch with a remote control is having the remote break, get stuck, or otherwise fail to stop winding in cable. Then the tower gets pulled down with you on the top! Chris
Tower work with nobody watching your six and nobody to call for help? Is it really a good idea? 73, Kelly ve4xt Sent from my iPad _______________________________________________ _____________________
Author: "Roger (K8RI) on TT" <K8RI-on-TowerTalk@tm.net>
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 01:05:36 -0500
It bears repeating: Tower climbing is dangerous! Even for those of us who did a lot of it. At least several times a year, I read where a professional climber fell even with the training and safety eq
Chris, I have read a number of these posts from 'supermen' who have put their towers up solo. Personally, I think it is not only risky but kinda silly. Why take the risk...ANY risk for the sake of th
Author: Herbert Schoenbohm <herbert.schoenbohm@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 10:19:35 -0400
You don't have to climb up and down if you use a rope with a hook and just fish for the section you have placed in a star configuration around the base. Powered winches pulling up sections for a ligh
Chris, I'm not going to drag my views out. ..their just my views. And yes, I can see issues with using a winch (better to use a WENCH) to do the lifting. Trouble is that some folks will buy a winch r
I have to agree forcefully with Roger. It has nothing to do with the fact we're both 5'7", have had two strokes, and one (documented) heart attack, and just last month for me, are both in our 70's. I
This thread has morphed ,,, and the SAFTY aspect pointed out..... I am 6'2" 210 lb and had bo problems manhandling R#25 & 45 .... 55 was to much to control with the limited leverage. As for powered w
Author: Patrick Greenlee <patrick_g@windstream.net>
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 15:52:56 -0600
It is disappointing to see people line up to take a turn at claiming to walk across the street without looking in either direction and not getting run over thinking making it alive somehow proves tha
At age 38 I erected up my 127' base-insulated Rohn 25G tower solo, except for the first section where I needed a couple of people to help hold it vertical while I attached temporary guys to the anch
Patrick Greenlee , stated, "It is disappointing to see people line up to take a turn at claiming to walk across the street without looking in either direction and not getting run over thinking making
One nice thing about solo work, for me it is not rushed. I have no people waiting that need to leave at a certain time, no schedule, and if I am tired and wish to take a break I can. If I do not fini
I knew it was inevitable this would turn into a safety and "don't do that" discussion and almost didn't respond to the original question for that reason. But I also realized there are some who, for w
Author: "Roger (K8RI) on TT" <K8RI-on-TowerTalk@tm.net>
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2015 11:23:08 -0500
Tower work is dangerous! When I was in my 30s, I had already been licensed over 10 years (since April or May of 61) In those days I had never heard of a full body harness. My Klein, free floating cli
Exactly. I have found that the hardest thing to do on a project like this is to co-ordinate my time with someone else's. If you are trying to assemble a crew, you have to co-ordinate your time with
Author: Patrick Greenlee <patrick_g@windstream.net>
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2015 12:00:25 -0600
You shouldn't feel insulted as clearly you are not at all like the hypothetical J walker but instead are a safety minded planner. Patrick NJ5G As a very safety minded tower climber, am I the only one
Author: Tom_N2SR via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2015 18:04:37 +0000 (UTC)
And all that planning is contingent on the weather. Nothing like planning for an antenna installation a few weeks in advance, coordinating 3 other people, and have it rain the day of. .... I built