On 3/15/02 1:39 AM, Jim White, K4OJ at k4oj@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
>I have known hams who have lost fingers and toes and myself been scared out
>of my wits by a telescoping tower that suddenly decided it wanted to nest
>another inch...
>
>In all my time climbing tower I never felt the fear I felt climbing at a
>height of 15 or 20 feet when that tower suddenly nested a little more - even
>when I climbed to the top of K4XS' 199 footer to help him install a 40 meter
>yagi I was tired as heck up there but it never occurred to me to be
>worried...
I thought the advantage of crank-ups is you didn't have to climb them....
For that matter, you should never climb a crank-up. No worries about
anything settling then.
Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL Mail: aa4lr@arrl.net
Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
-- Wilbur Wright, 1901
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