[TowerTalk] Roswell Tower Accident/double lanyard

[Gene Smar]

So do Trylon:  http://www.trylon.com/safetyclimb/safetyclimb.asp .  Scroll down to the bottom of this page to Retro Fits to see the connectors needed to fasten a climbing rope to a Trylon Titan's angle steel legs.  


73 de
Gene Smar  AD3F


From: Alan NV8A <nv8a at att.net>
Date: 2007/10/25 Thu PM 12:05:47 CDT
To: towertalk reflector <towertalk at contesting.com>
Cc: Kelly Johnson <n6kj.kelly at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Roswell Tower Accident/double lanyard

The AN Wireless towers offer this as an option.

73

Alan NV8A

On 10/25/07 11:38 am Kelly Johnson wrote:

> I'm surprised that few people mentioned the use of a permanently
> mounted climbing rope (or whatever you call it).  Don't some
> commercial towers have something like this with a mechanism on it that
> won't let you slide quickly down the rope?  Is this just too
> uneconomical for hams?

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