[UK-CONTEST] spar holm derrick

[Paul_group]

G3RIR wrote:
> I agree.
> 
> But try googling for gin pole and you will find that all the professionals
> fall into the same trap. Maybe, just maybe, we have to accept that this is
> another area where the English language has changed.
> 
> Neil, G3RIR


I'm a professional and I'd sack one of mine for describing a derrick as 
a gin pole - as you know, they are two different things :-)

I'd be quite dis chuffed if I had a few hundred feet to climb to explain 
what I really wanted rigging up to move something.

My background in this is overhead line poles, (Signalling and Telecom 
not power)and some of the terms we used all those years ago are 
different to what we now use in modern antenna erection, for example the 
term falling derrick has incorrectly become common usage for what Chris 
is actually asking about..

I must be fairly bored tonight :-/

Regards Paul


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