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1. [TowerTalk] Climbing (score: 1): Author: gdaught6@leland.Stanford.EDU (George T. Daughters); Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 10:18:46 +0008; <snip, snip, snip> excellent! i (and others, i'll bet) will use your experience as justification for buying and erecting a new BIG antenna system! (but honey, don't you want me to lose weight?) even; /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-12/msg00290.html (7,363 bytes)
2. [TowerTalk] Climbing (score: 1): Author: hwardsil@WOLFENET.com (Ward Silver); Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 10:32:09 -0800 (PST); Nothing like a little Vitamin T! 73, Ward N0AX -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.html Submissions: towertalk@contesting.com Administrative requests: towertalk-REQUEST@contesting.c; /archives//html/Towertalk/1997-12/msg00291.html (6,800 bytes)
3. [TowerTalk] Climbing (score: 1): Author: "Wilson Lamb" <infomet@embarqmail.com>; Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 15:57:49 -0400; The video has certainly generated a lot of talk, some valuable. Does anyone use a belay? A competent groundie could keep a line snug as you go up and down, saving you the trouble of all that hooking.; /archives//html/Towertalk/2010-09/msg00497.html (6,748 bytes)
4. [TowerTalk] Climbing (score: 1): Author: "Jim Thomson" <jim.thom@telus.net>; Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 05:23:32 -0700; The video has certainly generated a lot of talk, some valuable. Does anyone use a belay? A competent groundie could keep a line snug as you go up and down, saving you the trouble of all that hooking.; /archives//html/Towertalk/2010-09/msg00517.html (7,515 bytes)
5. Re: [TowerTalk] Climbing (score: 1): Author: "Jim Thomson" <jim.thom@telus.net>; Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 06:52:02 -0700; that would of course require either an installed line, which i would not trust due to weather and wear issues... or someone to climb up to attach it before it was used each time, kind of defeats the; /archives//html/Towertalk/2010-09/msg00521.html (9,464 bytes)
6. Re: [TowerTalk] Climbing (score: 1): Author: "Doug Westacott" <ve6pr@canada.com>; Date: 20 Sep 2010 18:43:51 -0700; Gentlemen As per my previous response on this subject...fall arrest cables are specified to be installed at anchors rated at 5000 lbs force.... The rocket scientists/government regs, CSA, OSHA etc up; /archives//html/Towertalk/2010-09/msg00529.html (11,883 bytes)
7. Re: [TowerTalk] Climbing (score: 1): Author: Andy <ai.egrps@gmail.com>; Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 22:23:44 -0400; For a short backyard tower that might work. But not a 1700 foot tower. But then what would you do with the line the rest of the year? You would need to anchor it away from the tower. If you pulled i; /archives//html/Towertalk/2010-09/msg00530.html (7,904 bytes)
8. Re: [TowerTalk] Climbing (score: 1): Author: "Mark Robinson" <markrob@mindspring.com>; Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 22:28:03 -0400; I would trust myself with the trouble of hooking and hooking than put my life in the hands on an inattentive groundie. My groundies haven't done very well so far. I was lucky to get anyone out to hel; /archives//html/Towertalk/2010-09/msg00531.html (8,578 bytes)
9. Re: [TowerTalk] Climbing (score: 1): Author: Kevin Normoyle <knormoyle@surfnetusa.com>; Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:54:40 -0700; My tower climbing is modest. Most of my experience comes from rock climbing. In the rock climbing world, there is a lot of information sharing, accidents, what works, what doesn't etc. There's very l; /archives//html/Towertalk/2010-09/msg00532.html (9,952 bytes)
10. Re: [TowerTalk] Climbing (score: 1): Author: "Jim Thomson" <jim.thom@telus.net>; Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:09:26 -0700; any towers are rated to handle 5000 lbs...none of em ! It's a moot point though. Other than yourself and VE6JY, I don't know of any other ham towers with any kind of fall arrest system. tower's. " do; /archives//html/Towertalk/2010-09/msg00533.html (16,074 bytes)
11. Re: [TowerTalk] Climbing (score: 1): Author: jimlux <jimlux@earthlink.net>; Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:25:57 -0700; well... maybe the bragging takes a slightly different form... It depends... there's differences between standard practice in the rigging world, the tower world, and the rock climbing world. Back in t; /archives//html/Towertalk/2010-09/msg00534.html (11,366 bytes)
12. Re: [TowerTalk] Climbing (score: 1): Author: "D Calder" <towertalk@n4zkf.com>; Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 07:34:14 -0400; conversation about the side loading of pelican hooks and new standards with a ham. Or the benefits of a webbing wrap for a tie off, as opposed >to a metal hook. Or how a bad clip can cause a torquin; /archives//html/Towertalk/2010-09/msg00535.html (8,860 bytes)
13. [TowerTalk] Climbing (score: 1): Author: "Wilson" <infomet@embarqmail.com>; Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 10:45:55 -0400; Isnt this topic about done? But a new question: Ive never climbed much and never used a harness at all, but I have one now and will use it. But isnt the dorsal attachment of the fall arrest lanyard a; /archives//html/Towertalk/2014-09/msg00374.html (7,819 bytes)
14. Re: [TowerTalk] Climbing (score: 1): Author: "Dick Green WC1M" <wc1m73@gmail.com>; Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 13:23:04 -0400; I believe the problem with sternal attachment is that pulling on the front of the harness with great force could cause your spine to snap backwards, a direction in which it's not designed to bend, po; /archives//html/Towertalk/2014-09/msg00377.html (9,641 bytes)
15. Re: [TowerTalk] Climbing (score: 1): Author: RMorris <robrk@nidhog.net>; Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 14:41:18 -0400; Watch a mother cat or dog carry her babies, by the nape of their neck. If your feet slip off a tower, with lanyard attached in front , while wearing the old style lineman's belt, you fall backwards,; /archives//html/Towertalk/2014-09/msg00378.html (8,562 bytes)
16. Re: [TowerTalk] Climbing (score: 1): Author: K7LXC--- via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>; Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 22:09:29 -0400; at all, but I have one now and will use it. trouble? No. That enables you to fall in a natural (e.g. fetal) position. Imagine the stress your back would take if you were caught in the front. dorsal; /archives//html/Towertalk/2014-09/msg00381.html (8,047 bytes)
17. [TowerTalk] Climbing (score: 1): Author: "Jim Thomson" <jim.thom@telus.net>; Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 20:10:14 -0700; Isn?t this topic about done? But a new question: I?ve never climbed much and never used a harness at all, but I have one now and will use it. But isn?t the dorsal attachment of the fall arrest lanyar; /archives//html/Towertalk/2014-09/msg00382.html (11,226 bytes)
18. Re: [TowerTalk] Climbing (score: 1): Author: "Roger (K8RI) on TT" <K8RI-on-TowerTalk@tm.net>; Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 02:48:09 -0400; Jim makes some excellence points: The point to remember is that at best, "Climbing is dangerous". That many, or most of us have climbed for years without injury does not make it safe. Safety gear can; /archives//html/Towertalk/2014-09/msg00383.html (15,814 bytes)
19. Re: [TowerTalk] Climbing (score: 1): Author: Rick Scott via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>; Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 06:50:48 -0700; I used to climb when I was younger. I have decided after reading all this,that if I ever decided to go full tower and could afford it, it will be a tiltover :) Cheers. Scotty W7PSK Jim makes some exc; /archives//html/Towertalk/2014-09/msg00384.html (17,204 bytes)
20. Re: [TowerTalk] Climbing (score: 1): Author: Mike via TowerTalk <towertalk@contesting.com>; Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 17:58:25 -0400; Phew!...I just free climbed my tower,,, I took a ladder to the roof of my house and grabbed the ladder to my Sky Needle ,,,free climbed 10 feet to the crows nest and installed a new flag on the mast/; /archives//html/Towertalk/2014-09/msg00389.html (20,256 bytes)

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