[TowerTalk] Fwd: Re:My favorite tower tip is...

[Jim White, K4OJ]

whenever I lean back into the belt the first try I do it with both hands 
on the legs in case soemthing shifts, etc... once I am sure all is in 
order THEN go for the tools, tape - whatever....

I have worked with several guys who use multiple lanyards - a long one 
and a short one - the longer being long enough to allow movement up or 
down a rung on the tower - at any one time one of them is on when they 
are on the tower....

73,

Jim, K4OJ

Earl Dery wrote:

>
>>
>> "The hardest part of tower work is climbing down."
>>
>>  Paul's(W8AEF) statement can't be emphasized enough.
>>
>>  A few years back after getting my 132 foot tower up and I was 
>> putting on the coax rotor power control etc., I had been on the tower 
>> for a while and I was on my way down when at about the 60 foot mark I 
>> noticed something that could use an extra wrap of tape. I started to 
>> lean back then suddenly realized I didn't have the strap around the 
>> tower. Scary!  Ever since then I double check what I am doing 
>> particularly when climbing down.
>>
>> This is the time to be extra vigilant. Particularly for those of us 
>> that climb because we want to have a station a little above the average.
>>
>> 73 Earl VE7IN
>
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