[TowerTalk] Erecting tower sections solo

[Donald Chester]

> One nice thing about solo work, for me it is not rushed. I have no people
> waiting that need to leave at a certain time, no schedule, and if I am
> tired and wish to take a break I can. If I do not finish today, I'll do it
> tomorrow.  It is enjoyable unstressful work.

> John KK9A

Exactly.  I  have found that the hardest thing to do on a project like this is to co-ordinate my time with someone else's.  If you are trying to assemble a crew, you have to co-ordinate your time with the others and then co-ordinate their schedules with each other's, sometimes virtually impossible.  It probably goes up in difficulty in proportion at least to the square of the number of helpers; four times as much hassle with two helpers as with one, nine times the hassle with three people, etc.

Here's an incident report of a tower fatality that occurred a few years ago with a professional climber, apparently due to his failure to follow standard safety protocol. He bet his life on the integrity of the structure he was climbing, and lost the bet.

http://wirelessestimator.com/content/articles?pagename=Tower%20Climber%20Lawsuit


Don k4kyv