[TowerTalk] Climbing gear again

[ersmar@comcast.net]

Alan:

     That positioning chain assembly is too restrictive for use on a tower of any kind, IMHO.  You have limited ability to move around the tower members while you are connected to the tower via this 24-inch long piece of chain.  It also looks heavy to take up a 100-foot tower with you.  

     For use on my Trylon I have a positioning belt made by Buckingham http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/Towertalk/2001-08/msg00636.html .  It provides the security I need while aloft.  It easily slides through the steel members of the tower as I reposition myself during a project.  Plus I can adjust its length very easily to keep me safe at any point up and down the tower's tapering profile.  

     As I wrote in the referenced TT post (above), I don't like the idea of a rope lanyard on angle tower members.  Too much risk that the rope will get cut or nicked by a steel angle.  I have a whole bunch of concrete in my tower's foundation and it looks like it might hurt quite a bit if I were to fall onto it from the rotator platform of my tower!  

73 and be safe de
Gene Smar  AD3F
P.S.  There are no such things as tower ACCIDENTS.


> Do people agree that for working on a tower with angular members (such 
> as those by AN Wireless or Trylon) rather than tubular, a positioning 
> lanyard with a rebar hook (aka "gorilla hook") and chain is preferable 
> to one with webbing? E.g.:
> 
> http://www.fallprotect.net/dbisala/sala5900051.html
> 
> Other suggestions about suitable products or better pricing?
> 
> 73
> 
> Alan NV8A
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