[TowerTalk] Antenna climbing harness (Rigging)

[K5CG]

Hi Jim, 

At the time, they manufactured their own pieces in-house, right there in the shop at Oakville. I remember one tower in particular that was sitting on a flatbed semi truck ready to go. It was built for the Canadian Coast Guard and went to the east coast somewhere. It had 12" SOLID round legs and was built to withstand 8 feet of radial ice. The heaviest lattice tower I've ever seen. Custom built job. 

73 

> From: "Jim Thomson" <jim.thom at telus.net>
> To: towertalk at contesting.com
> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2017 7:41:03 AM
> Subject: [TowerTalk] Antenna climbing harness (Rigging)

> Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 23:19:31 -0600 (CST)
> From: K5CG <k5cg at hamoperator.org>
> To: towertalk at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Antenna climbing harness (Rigging)

> I was 21 "back then" working for LeBlanc & Royle out of Oakville Ontario. Free
> climbing inside towers and stopping every 50 feet was standard operating
> procedure. Unless you could ride up on the cable...
> http://www.hamoperator.org/pics/CKVR/

> I used to climb up on the CKVR Channel 3 SuperTurnstile "Batwings" at the top of
> that one. Different rules today.

> 73
> Danny
> K5CG
> SKCC #14257

> ## A buddy and myself bought several hundred feet of used L+R tower from L+R in
> vancouver bc. 30 inches center to center, and aprx 34 inches corner to corner.
> 20 ft sections weighed 250 lbs if W braced, and 350 lbs if X braced.
> They were one big meccano set, with hundreds of .375 inch bolts used. 10 on each
> leg splice, 30 in total..every 20 ft. I free climbed the inside of the tower,
> then belted in, when I got to the level I wanted. I had it up between 1980 and
> 1990, at 2 x different homes..then had to sell it, when I moved south. Its
> still in use. One of the best sectional towers ever built imo. They would fully
> collapse down to just pieces, which makes it easy to ship. A local, 120 miles
> north of me has one up 160 ft, 18 inch per side, that rotates. The steel they
> used was superb quality.

> Jim VE7RF
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