[TowerTalk] Unsafe Climbing Practices

[Doug Renwick]

Kirk,

No apology needed here.  I appreciated you posting those
photos.  We should learn from the mistakes of others.  Tower
work has risks associated with these tasks...minimizing your
risk should be the goal.

Doug/VA5DX


Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Unsafe Climbing Practices

Thanks Frank.

In retrospect, it may have been irresponsible of me to 
post those photos, lest someone get the wrong idea that 
such practices were deemed safe. I was not trying to 
advocate a partucular technique. I was trying to show
how one person dealt with the specific antenna under 
question.  Thanks for posting a sobering response. 
Maybe it will save someone's life. 

-Kirk  K4RO


> Kirk,
> 
> Any trained tower climber will be very concerned about the
lack of safe tower climbing practices evident in your
photographs.
> 
> Here's an excellent reference for safe tower climbing
practices:
> 
> http://www.blm.gov/nhp/efoia/wo/fy06/im2006-078attach1.pdf
> 
> A quick review of the manual will uncover multiple unsafe
practices evident in your photographs, including (at least):
unsafe climbing surface, unsafe anchorage and unsafe
clothing.
> 
> These disturbing photos should be a call to all of us to
better understand and practice safe climbing.
> 
> 73
> Frank
> W3LPL


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