FW: Re: Crank-up mishap

k4sb@avana.net k4sb@avana.net
Thu, 13 Feb 97 03:17:41 PST


--- On Wed, 12 Feb 1997 13:53:58 -0500  Terry Dunlap <kk6t@joneslumber.com> wrote:
At 02:59 AM 2/12/97 -0800, Stan Griffiths wrote:
>The rule is never, Never, NEVER, ever, Ever, EVER climb a crankup.  Even if
>it is down and even if you have it safety blocked.  I wouldn't even stand
>one one that is laying on the ground horizontally.
>I actually HAVE climbed crankups in the past.  Some were all the way up (how
>else do you install the blocks between sections so you can take the tension
>off the cable?)  All I can say is that I can't believe how incredibly STUPID
>I was when I did it.  I was lucky then and much wiser now . . .
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That is without doubt one of the dumbest statements I have ever read.


73, Ed

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