[CQ-Contest] Tower safety

[jimk8mr at aol.com]

 It's not just an issue of physical fitness in free climbing. There is also a distraction issue: one reflexive swat at a suddenly appearing wasp ought not be fatal.
73  - Jim   K8MR
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Renwick <ve5ra at sasktel.net>
To: 'Wayne Kline' <w3ea at hotmail.com>; 'CQ-Contest Reflector' <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Fri, Nov 15, 2019 8:16 am
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Tower safety

This subject has been covered many times before.

I say If you can't free climb then you shouldn't climb at all.
I get plenty of criticisms for stating that. Let me explain. If you are not
physically, and mentally fit to free climb, then you shouldn't be climbing
at all is what I am saying. I am not recommending you free climb, but the
choice is always yours. Others, including myself regularly free climb. But I
know my limits.

There is a false sense of security using a harness. I would not want to die
hanging from my fall arrest lanyard way up in the sky. By the time rescue
would arrive I would be dead, circulation cut off. So the choice is yours -
die hanging from the tower or die hitting the ground. So my advice is if you
have any doubts about your climbing ability then don't climb.

Doug

"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."
Albert Einstein 

-----Original Message-----


The event TEAR is there for your protecting. Just as a fall arrest lanyard.
It's a shock deterent.  Your car if any airbag is deployed you have to
replace ALL the
Safety belts  !  I remember see a NTSB video years ago when full body
harness were being mandated.  The human test dummy  was dropped as if you
sliped off a cross rung  and he did not have a fall arrest lanyard  but a 5
ft positioning  lanyard attached to the dorsal  D ring.
It was determined just the shock when reaching the end would dis located
sholders and also the possibility if hip pelvic    damage, plus internal
injuriy.
The noted the good possibility of other trauma from  striking the vertical
structure in the fall process.

My ,02

As my mentor taught me nay many yeas ago

There are old Climbers

  There are BOLD Climbers

  But there are NO old bold Climbers

Wayne ,