[TowerTalk] Unsafe Climbing Practices
Doug Renwick
ve5ra at sasktel.net
Tue Jan 9 12:31:41 EST 2007
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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