[TowerTalk] How do you remove guys to walk a beam up Rohn 25?

[Steve Zettel]

At 5:07 -0600 4/12/99, Pete Smith wrote:
>At 09:34 PM 4/11/99 -0400, Tom Wagner wrote:
>>
>>Dan & Bill --
>>
>>Thanks for your responses.
>>
>>Bill -- I had a feeling KC1XX
>>didn't use a $15 come-along.  I don't have a juma,
>>but I can buy 3 guy grips to accomplish the same thing.
>
>There's a gadget called a Klein grip, colloquially known, I think, as a
>"lamb chop," that may be what a juma is (in translation).  I recall a
>thread on the subject early in Towertalk recorded history...  For guy
>tensioning, my Elmer taught me to tighten a cable clamp on the guy and use
>that to tie a rope to it, but I don't think I'd trust something like that
>at full guy-wire pre-load tension.
>
I'd go with the Klein grip. It's designed for grabbing a steel cable, and
can be specified for specific ranges of size. If this "juma" is what I
think it is -- a Jumar Ascender, it is designed for technical rock climbing
and rescue work and to grab synthetic line, NOT cable!

Of course, maybe there is another "juma" out there that IS for wire guy
material. But a Klein is no more expensive than a Jumar Ascender, and
again, it is designed for the application in question.

FWIW and 73,

Steve Zettel
near Libby, MT USA

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