> The real danger is in doing things seriously wrong, like putting the loop
> over something with inadequate radius. I've seen some pretty poor
> installations. Some installers slip the loop over the tower leg, or worse
> yet, over the leg plus a brace rod end. The rod puts a real sharp bump
> against the grip.
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> IMHO you hit the nail on the HEAD...... with either material used..... Did a
> job on Rohn 45 with torque arm assemblies
the installer/Ham did not use any thimbles in the torque arm eyelets or on
the top triangular flat plate....
IT's unnerving when you adjust your lanyard over a set of torque arms and see
only HALF of the guy grip remaining and rusted broken strands staring you in
the face..... @ 45' and the top set was worse from axial twisting . but we
had fixed the lower set B-4 I climbed up there ...
Wayne W3EA
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