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Subject: [Towertalk] Double protection - climbing
From: ve7hcb@rac.ca (Chris BONDE)
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 16:30:04 -0800
At 09:15 AM 2002-12-16 -0600, you wrote:
> > You'll be safer if you have some sort of lanyard (i.e. the fall arrest 
> lanyard on your fall arrest harness) that you can attach above you and 
> then you can climb up to it safely since you'll be attached to the tower 
> 100% of the time you're
>trying to get around your appurtenances. (You do have a FAH, don't you?)
>
>We should all be glad he lived to tell this story.  Anyway, whenever I
>reattach, before I unattach the above mentioned double protection, I
>visually inspect my main lanyard to assure it is attached to my belt on both
>ends.
>
>Thank God I got smarter as I got older.

You have just disproved the old premiss,  "Too soon, we grow old, and, too 
late, we grow smart.".

And many people are happy that you so did.

Chris opr VE7HCB

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