Interesting! Where do you get one of those?
Hans - N2JFS
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] reflector <[email protected]>
Sent: Thu, Sep 18, 2014 12:14 pm
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Sad day - W9ZUC tower accident
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
On Sep 18, 2014, at 10:03 AM, TexasRF--- via TowerTalk wrote:
> 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,
> [email protected] 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
>
>
>
> 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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