[TowerTalk] Sad news N5IA SK in tower fall

[Wayne Kline]

DITTO  John.
 
  The commercial towers even with there   Ribbon arrays  are great conadates for  for TugTuf safety  systems.
A single or dual mast  mount amateur installations are also.
 
 But  tall multi mounted with swinging gates, rings and shunt  networks would be a problem.
 
20 plus years ago doing a job for a Ham with  100 ft AB105 with two  tic-rings  mid tower   24' faced, angle braced   and I was waist  belted  was mostly free climbed.   The owner came out and showed  me his New Klein full body harness with  mid back ring for fall arrest waist rings and seat rings..... By  the end of the day I was on the phone an ordered a full Rig with all  the accessories. and to this day have Never  FREE climbed
 
I am on my 3rd Harness  IMHO  it's a no brainer.
 
I said this B-4 on this TT site  and mean no disrespect to Milt.
 
The Ditty go's like this
 
 There are  old Climbers
  There are Bold Climbers
  BUT there are  NO
  OLD, BOLD climbers 
 
 
 Wayne W3EA 


> Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 16:14:30 -0400
> From: john at kk9a.com
> To: towertalk at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Sad news N5IA SK in tower fall
> 
> Most of us with big stations have multiple antennas all the way down their
> towers.  If the antennas rotate it makes installing a permanent safety
> wire from the the top to the ground impossible. You could install short
> segments in-between the antennas or a temporary one to the top if you are
> doing a lot of climbing.
> 
> John KK9A
> 
> To:	<towertalk at contesting.com>
> Subject:	Re: [TowerTalk] Sad news N5IA SK in tower fall
> From:	"Ed Sawyer" <sawyered at earthlink.net>
> Reply-to:	sawyered at earthlink.net
> Date:	Tue, 14 Jun 2016 15:29:42 -0400
> 
> I have seen probably 50 different ham tower installations representing well
> over 100 towers and worked on probably a dozen of them (in addition to my
> own).  I have never seen a ham tower with a full length steel safety wire
> running on it.
> 
> I am not saying it's bad - its better - no argument.  But if someone is "not
> working" on ham towers without it, then they are not working on ham towers,
> end of story.
> 
> In any case, I am fully respectful of the choices made by N5IA.  Clearly,
> they were processed decisions.
> 
> We can all learn from tragedies.  But jumping from free climbing at any
> height and age danger to "won't climb without a full length running safety
> cable" serves no practical purpose in the ham community.
> 
> Ed  N1UR
> 
> 
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