[TowerTalk] Breaking all the tower climbing rules atanamazingheight...

[Marlon K. Schafer]

OY!  I can't even watch that video.

Those guys are just plain nuts.
marlon

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Robinson" <markrob at mindspring.com>
To: "Tom Osborne" <w7why at frontier.com>
Cc: <TowerTalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 3:29 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Breaking all the tower climbing rules 
atanamazingheight...


> There was a death a while back when a climber fell and it looked like one 
> of
> those climbing pegs had rusted through and had snapped off when weight was
> put on it
>
> Mark N1UK
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tom Osborne" <w7why at frontier.com>
> To: "Towertalk" <towertalk at contesting.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, 01 December, 2010 6:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Breaking all the tower climbing rules at
> anamazingheight...
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>> Watching them go up the last 50 feet or so made me wonder just what would
>> happen if one of those climbing pegs snapped off.  Be a LONG way down. 
>> At
>> that height seems like they would get kinda rusty.  73
>> Tom W7WHY
>>
>>
>>  Seems to be a commercial operation.  I guess the OSHA inspector
>> couldn't (wouldn't) make an on-site inspection.  Also, note the
>> porcupine dissipators on the way up.
>>
>> http://www.liveleak.com/mp53/player.swf?config=http://www.liveleak.com/mp53/player_config.php?token=f2d_1284588370%26embed=1
>>
>> 73, Joe
>> K2XX
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