[Towertalk] Double protection - climbing

[Pete Smith]

At 09:15 AM 12/16/02 -0600, Mark Beckwith wrote:
>We should all be glad he lived to tell this story.  Anyway, whenever I
>reattach, before I unattach the above mentioned double protection, I
>visually inspect my main lanyard to assure it is attached to my belt on both
>ends.


Absolutely -- I'm also nervous enough that after I attach the positioning 
lanyard, I keep the fall-arrest line attached, AND I hang onto the tower 
while I push back against the positioning lanyard with a useful share of my 
total weight, so I'm triple checked.


73, Pete N4ZR
Sometimes a tower is just a tower