[TowerTalk] Temporary Antennae

[Jim Lux]

On 2/2/13 3:30 AM, Tom Carrubba KA2D wrote:
> Jim
>
> Check out this video from YCCC for WRTC2014.
> http://www.cape-vision.com/wayg/yccc/YCCC-falling-derrick.mpg
>
> GL -Tom KA2D
>

Didn't seem to load, but from the title, that's a falling derrick, which 
I like. it doesn't have anyone under the tower as it goes up. Unlike the 
"walk it up".

I'm sort of OK with a one person "walk it up" because that one person 
can jump left or right and control things, but when you get a group 
together, and the guy on the right jumps left and the guy on the left 
jumps right, it's a recipe for disaster.  All it takes is one of the 
people stepping in a hole or rock as they're raising it up

That said, a team that has done it a bunch of times together probably is 
reasonably safe.. but why not use something like a falling derrick, to 
pull from the uphill side.