[Towertalk] Climbing Masts

[htodd@twofifty.com (Hisashi T Fujinaka)]

On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 K7LXC@aol.com wrote:

> A 240' person on the mast isn't anywhere close to that sort of stress.

Actually, body weight is proportional to the cube of the height, so
(240^3/6^3)*240 = 15360000#, or about a seven-thousand ton person. So I
think a two-hundred-forty foot person would put quite a stress on a tower.
:)

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