[TowerTalk] Telephone Poles??

[Peter Larsen]

> For example, get the inside of your knee too close to the pole
> just once, and you could easily be on the ground looking up, 
> picking slivers and splinters out of your chest - assuming you
> survived the descent.
>

Dang Jerry, these sound like words of experience. I got a set
of vascular clamps for the slivers as tweezers just don't cut 
it :-(

BTW "pole steps" have been outlawed here in Calgary. Have you 
ever seen some one who fell off a pole with pole steps on it
and got hung up on the way down?? Imagine being impaled on
one of those steps and hanging upside down for a while.
Give me a set of hooks any day!!

Talk to your local power utility, most of the guys would climb
the poles for you for a small fee.

We now have fall arrest devices on our climbing belts and
have to belt in no higher than 10 feet. Even a guy of my robust
nature only slips about 2 feet when I kick out. Still get the 
slivers though.
 

-- 
 Peter J. Larsen
 

> Is there another word for synonym?
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