[Towertalk] Double protection - climbing

[EUGENE SMAR]

TT:

     I learned this practice on this reflector a few years ago:  "Look,
listen and feel."  LOOK at what you're clipping your lanyard onto (a tool vs
the real D-ring); LISTEN to the snap closure of the hook to make sure it's
not bound up on something; and FEEL the snap closure, likewise to ensure the
catch has closed completely.  I consciously follow these three steps each
time I hook in.

73 de
Gene Smar  AD3F

-----Original Message-----
From: Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>
To: towertalk@contesting.com <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Monday, December 16, 2002 11:49 AM
Subject: Re: [Towertalk] Double protection - climbing


>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
>
>
>
>
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