[TowerTalk] Knot tying

[Charlie Gallo]

On 12/29/2008 jimlux wrote:

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> That works well.  I used to tie the clove hitch first, then lead the 
> line along the pipe towards the high end, then twist and stick it over
> the end to make the half hitch, take out the foot or so of slack and it
> snugs right up.

Yes, that's the normal way - heck, the clove hitch was usually done as two loops passed over - one way to tie them



>> My rigging was not at the heights that big towers were, but I've
>> lifted lots of BIG pieces of steel between 10 and 100 ft (heaviest
>> lift just over 10 tons - to 35 ft)


> Whether it falls 2 feet or 100, it's still a disaster..

Yep - never dropped a load.  Stop, think, and if you don't KNOW what your doing, stop and ask, which was a good thing the original poster did.  Also, plan is things DO go wrong, they go wrong in a way that no one gets hurt.  Most of my rigging was in putting bridge cranes into place, which I always thought was funny, as boy could we have used our end product, to get our end product into place




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