[TenTec] Pimp My Eagle -outdoor safety for antenna work

[Al Gulseth]

"12 mph?" Back in the 1970s I worked as an operating/maintenance engineer at a 
TV transmitter site in NW AR. A "tower ape" came out to do some work (tower 
lights if I remember correctly.) There was a fair breeze at ground level when 
he went up the tower. It wasn't too long before he was back down. He told me 
that when he got to where he needed to be he went to put a glove on and let 
it get away from him. He said that as far as he could still see it the glove 
was sailing horizontally and hadn't dropped any. That was enough for him to 
call off the project. He estimated the wind up there at _80 MPH_ if I 
remember what he said correctly. He can have that job, I don't want it....

73, Al

On Fri January 8 2016 1:52:47 pm Stuart Rohre wrote:
> Good point Rick, but here rain equals lightning, so we QRT antenna work
> at that point.  SAFETY first.
>
> Recently we also set some other rules for tower work: 1. no climbing if
> wind is over 12 mph, (if then).  (Hoisting lines whip around and foul
> each other in those kinds of sustained wind.)
>