[TowerTalk] Climbing

[Andy]

>  Does anyone use a belay? A competent groundie could keep a line snug as you
>  go up and down, saving you the trouble of all that hooking.

For a short backyard tower that might work.  But not a 1700 foot tower.

But then what would you do with the line the rest of the year?  You
would need to anchor it away from the tower.  If you pulled it
vertical, snug with the tower, in the wind it would slap itself
against the tower until either you go deaf, or your neighbors blast
the tower to the ground.

Andy