[TowerTalk] Two Killed Erecting Tower

[wa4dou@juno.com]

Hi Bill and Gang,
  Yes, perhaps it would seem that some have made judgements about the
tower accident, that may not be in harmony with the facts. Based on what
i've 
read so far, i can't  say just what did happen, with any authority.
Therefore,
it would seem that all comment so far is just speculation.
  My take on what i read is that they probably had a level of guys on it,
and the rope
hauling up the next tower section broke and the falling tower section
fell against a guy
and brought the tower down. I base this on two things. first, i read
somewhere that
most people building towers ,will climb two sections above the "bracket"
or guys, but
that only a few will climb higher. In my own experience, Rohn 25G feels
"unnerveingly"
unstable, or flexible, at the top of the 2nd section. I'm not going
higher, without temporary 
guys. I can't even conceive of 2 people climbing a Rohn 25G, or similiar,
or even less
tower, to a height of 3 or 4 tower sections above the "bracket" or guys.
To think there are
2 people on the whole planet, who would climb 6 sections together,
unguyed, is out-
rageous, absurd, even ridiculously absurd. 

  Rohn advertises frequently, in the ham magazines, that "Accidents have
occurred
because individuals assume situations are safe when they are not." They
go on to
say that " Installation and dismantling of towers is dangerous and
temporary steel
guys of sufficient strength and size should be used at all times when
individuals
are climbing towers during all types of installations and
dismantlings.Temporary 
steel guys should be used on the first 10 ft. of a tower during erection
and dismantling."

  I take this to mean that there should be temporary steel guys at the
top of every section,
going up or comming down, when you arrive there.

  Rohn does everyone a service by publishing these ads. It isn't
"unmanly" to follow these
cautions. It is stupid, not to. Even more so, if you're not a
professional. And i'm not.

  73 and be safe! Roy Lincoln WA4DOU
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On Tue, 21 Mar 2000 17:02:38 EST W5USM@aol.com writes:
> 
> Man, what cold, hard-asses on this reflector.
> 
> 73 from Bill Smith, W5USM
>     "Shortwave Since 1950"
> 
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