[TowerTalk] Safe Climbing was Re: Roswell Tower Accident

[Wayne Kline]

> From: JoeCoolDXer at msn.com> To: n6kj.kelly at gmail.com; towertalk at contesting.com; n4zr at contesting.com> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:26:10 -0700> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Safe Climbing was Re: Roswell Tower Accident> > Most of the posts in this thread deal with climbing equipment and technique. Another issue in climbing safety concerns 
carelessness/misjudgement due to prior consumption of alcohol, medications, "substances", sleep deprivation, etc...> >  In the many towers jobs  I have been or the Antenna Party's I helped at, I have never witnessed  Alcohol present during construction or erection. I can not fathom the mixing of the two.  I can not speak for anyone elce But there are few Tower  / Antenna projects/Maintenance ect that are One man jobs , ( It's not a good practice of climbing when your alone ) I would be Long Gone....if  Drinking ect were part of the Mix.
 
 
 Again many good points have been raised, It's unfortunate that the event to make people me included focused on the obvious.
30ft or 300ft. Think B-4 you act.  I am  guilty  you bet I am guilty as charged. Just last week while troubleshooting my 20mt stack. I left the shack walked past my shop where are not one but three Safety belt Harness ect. and free climbed to the 42ft  box level. Hooking my leg inside the Rohn 65 brace  to my inside knee and putting my left arm through the tower leg  holding me against with my forearm as I switched the feed lines with my Right hand...it was while  I was marking the feed lines with phase tape that I said to my self " WTF am  I doing , What Was I thinking ? The truth I was not...I was in a hurry with failing day light to ring out the feed lines and this is how accidents happen. You just don't think. .Your in a hurry and take things for granted .
 On another note  I can't find it, but it was a article with graphs  on fatal tower rigging/erection accidents. it's one fact that stuck with me was that a alarming majority of human Error accidents occurred not on ascending or working in position  but while  De sending !  IMHO where your tired, thirsty, and want to get the day done.
 
 
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