[TowerTalk] Climbing and working on Rohn 25g/45g towers -

Tom Osborne w7why at verizon.net
Mon Nov 24 00:23:01 EST 2008


Hi Richard

Interesting stuff.

Has anyone ever heard of this  happening?  73
Tom W7WHY



>
> Here is the shocking sad truth:
>
> Rohn 25g section shearing strength - 2500lbs (this is the strength of the
> entire section, all three legs and lattice, not just that one leg you may 
> be
> attaching to.
>
> So a Rohn 25g section could fail if a climber falls and the lanyard shock
> pack does not activate, or the climber is using a lanyard without a shock
> pack.



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