[TowerTalk] Old Safety Belt

[JoeCoolDXer]

AA6EG wrote:
"At Jamesburg, there were a lot of plausible fall scenarios where a fall puts you in your harness 60 ft above ground, and 20 ft horizontally from a support surface or structure."

Reminds me of a favorite post, either this story or a link to it appeared on TT few years ago:

Climber on a commercial tower several hundred feet up had a safety strap with hook, but it was not connected when he slipped/fell.  As he passed the next guy wire down, the strap hook caught on it and arrested his fall but he was several feet away from being able to grab back on to the tower, just dangling below the guy wire.  After a couple minutes getting his senses back, he shinnied up the guy cable back to the tower, then CLIMBED BACK UP TO WHERE HE WAS WORKING AND FINISHED THE JOB...