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Re: [TowerTalk] Sad day - W9ZUC tower accident

To: Chris <EZRhino@fastmovers.biz>, "towertalk@contesting.com reflector" <TOWERTALK@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Sad day - W9ZUC tower accident
From: n4zkf <towertalk@n4zkf.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 15:56:12 -0400
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I mentioned it earlier. Tuf-Tug makes them. They are called safer climbs.


73 Dave n4zkf





On 9/18/14 12:10 PM, "Chris" <EZRhino@fastmovers.biz> wrote:

>The slickest thing I've ever seen is a cable stretched tight from top to
>bottom of the tower, and the climber has a device that goes on the cable
>that only slides UP the cable.  It can't slide down, so if you fell it
>would hold fast.  This also gives both hands free for climbing.  I've
>never seen these on a ham tower though.  Lots of them in my neck of the
>woods on ski lift towers.
>
>Chris
>KF7P
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>On Sep 18, 2014, at 10:03 AM, TexasRF--- via TowerTalk wrote:
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>> Please enlighten me: when climbing with a gorilla hook, is there only
>>one  
>> hook/lanyard used or are there two hook/lanyards used?
>> 
>> If two, wouldn't there always be one of the hooks attached to the
>>tower?
>> 
>> 73,
>> Gerald K5GW
>> 
>> 
>> In a message dated 9/18/2014 8:49:18 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
>> xdavid@cis-broadband.com writes:
>> 
>> 
>> Yes,  you have indeed said that several times here before, and it was
>> just as  ignorant a comment then as it is now.  Every time you unhook
>>or 
>> hook  to the tower you only have one hand on the tower ... just exactly
>> as you  only have one hand on the tower when you reach up while
>>climbing 
>> ... the  difference being whether or not you are hooked in while that
>> second hand  isn't on the tower.  How you can possibly believe that one
>> hand on  the tower is safer than one hand on the tower PLUS one hook on
>> the tower,  or that a free hand not on the tower is more reliable than
>>a 
>> hook already  on the tower, is totally beyond me.
>> 
>> Dave    AB7E
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>> On 9/17/2014 8:42 PM, Doug Renwick wrote:
>>> I have  said this many times before.  If you can't 'free climb' then
>>>you
>>> SHOULD NOT be climbing at all.  The use of a gorilla hook has it's
>>>place 
>> -
>>> for resting or at the work station.  But IMO it should not be  used to
>> assist
>>> the climb!  Every time you have to hook and unhook  the gorilla hook
>>>it 
>> means
>>> you only have one hand left on the  tower.  That to me is unsafe.
>>>With 
>> free
>>> climbing, both  hands are available to grab the tower.  If you can't
>>>free
>>> climb -  don't climb.
>>> Doug
>>> 
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