[TowerTalk] How to Clip on with a Fall Arrest Lanyard

Kim Elmore cw_de_n5op at sbcglobal.net
Sun Sep 6 21:47:42 EDT 2020


Would you mind being a bit more detailed about this? What it is, 
exactly, and how you manage it? I think I know, but I want to be 
certain. Also, if there's a permanently-installed a safety line on a 
tower, what's required to properly use it?

Kim N5OP

On 9/6/2020 4:17 PM, K9MA wrote:
> I’ve been using a 5/8 inch lifeline and a rope grab. It takes one trip with the gorilla hooks to put it up, and another to take it down, but all the other trips are much easier.
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> 73,
> Scott K9MA
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> Scott Ellington
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>> On Sep 6, 2020, at 12:05 PM, Dick Green WC1M <wc1m73 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 4. All this further convinces me that a safety cable is the best way to climb a tower. I plan to install one on my Rohn 55 tower provided I can find one with enough clearance to pass through the three TIC rings on my tower.
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Kim Elmore, Ph.D. (Adj. Assoc. Prof., OU School of Meteorology, CCM, PP 
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