[TowerTalk] Install Videos for towers

[AD5VJ Bob]

I agree after looking at several of them, especially the one that has the guy  walking the beam's boom that is being supported by
only a mast and someone else holding it.

Then there is the one which seems to be dangling off of a crane or something above and they are pounding the cement and setting the
tower in place as a whole. Now that was eye opening.

Bob AD5VJ

> -----Original Message-----
> From: towertalk-bounces at contesting.com 
> [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of jimlux
> Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2008 11:37 AM
> To: k1ttt at arrl.net
> Cc: towertalk at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Install Videos for towers
> 
> David Robbins K1TTT wrote:
> > Just watch out, some of those videos are great examples of 
> how NOT to 
> > install towers or antennas.
> > 
> > 
> no worse than the crew in the picture on page 56 of the Nov 
> QST doing what looks like a "iwo jima" of a fairly good sized 
> tower with a single rope held by someone over their head and 
> wrapped around the body.. flip flops, nary a hard hat to be 
> seen (in itself not a problem, with suitable erection 
> technique),  3 people standing UNDER the tower as it's being 
> raised, not counting the guy taking the picture in the 
> background who will also be crushed.
> 
> I won't say I've never done something like this myself (duh, 
> of course I have, and worse), but it's not exactly a shining 
> example of safety.
> 
> Jim, W6RMK
> 
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