It's with some trepidation that I respond to this thread, but there''s one other climbing technique I have not seen mentioned in this forum. For modest height towers, say up to 75 feet, why not climb
Shawn, It makes sense to me. Like you said, no energy wasted on the climb with hooking/unhooking the lanyards. If you need something while you are up there, you can lower a line down to the helper (b
OSHA requires 100% tie-in to structure. Can't meet that with a belay technique. Of course if you are a fire department doing a rescue and not an antenna installer, different rules apply. Matthew Kauf
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Interesting idea, but it wouldn't work with towers that have TIC rings. 73, Dick WC1M It's with some trepidation that I respond to this thread, but there''s one other climbing technique I have not se
Hi Dick, It would get in the way of the rotation, wouldn't it? What if you ran the belayer's line through the middle of the tower, through pulleys at the top so in use, the line from top to climber i
Yes. The internal line with a weight is a good idea. Probably needs a extension arm at the top to hold the weight away from the tower so the weight clears the rings. That rigging and bracket need to
When raising and lowering the weight you'd have problems with it hitting a ring and not being able to get past it, or getting caught inside a ring between the inside edge and the tower face. The pull