DITTO John.
The commercial towers even with there Ribbon arrays are great conadates
for for TugTuf safety systems.
A single or dual mast mount amateur installations are also.
But tall multi mounted with swinging gates, rings and shunt networks would
be a problem.
20 plus years ago doing a job for a Ham with 100 ft AB105 with two tic-rings
mid tower 24' faced, angle braced and I was waist belted was mostly free
climbed. The owner came out and showed me his New Klein full body harness
with mid back ring for fall arrest waist rings and seat rings..... By the end
of the day I was on the phone an ordered a full Rig with all the accessories.
and to this day have Never FREE climbed
I am on my 3rd Harness IMHO it's a no brainer.
I said this B-4 on this TT site and mean no disrespect to Milt.
The Ditty go's like this
There are old Climbers
There are Bold Climbers
BUT there are NO
OLD, BOLD climbers
Wayne W3EA
> Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 16:14:30 -0400
> From: john@kk9a.com
> To: towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Sad news N5IA SK in tower fall
>
> Most of us with big stations have multiple antennas all the way down their
> towers. If the antennas rotate it makes installing a permanent safety
> wire from the the top to the ground impossible. You could install short
> segments in-between the antennas or a temporary one to the top if you are
> doing a lot of climbing.
>
> John KK9A
>
> To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Sad news N5IA SK in tower fall
> From: "Ed Sawyer" <sawyered@earthlink.net>
> Reply-to: sawyered@earthlink.net
> Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 15:29:42 -0400
>
> I have seen probably 50 different ham tower installations representing well
> over 100 towers and worked on probably a dozen of them (in addition to my
> own). I have never seen a ham tower with a full length steel safety wire
> running on it.
>
> I am not saying it's bad - its better - no argument. But if someone is "not
> working" on ham towers without it, then they are not working on ham towers,
> end of story.
>
> In any case, I am fully respectful of the choices made by N5IA. Clearly,
> they were processed decisions.
>
> We can all learn from tragedies. But jumping from free climbing at any
> height and age danger to "won't climb without a full length running safety
> cable" serves no practical purpose in the ham community.
>
> Ed N1UR
>
>
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