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[Towertalk] How Not to Break a Wrist!

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Subject: [Towertalk] How Not to Break a Wrist!
From: n4kg@juno.com (n4kg@juno.com)
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 22:26:20 -0600
And people wonder why I keep preaching that there is...

Nothing Stronger, SAFER, or more Cost Effective
than a properly GUYED Tower.  

Sorry for your injury.

Tom  N4KG

On Thu, 24 Oct 2002  "Greg Gobleman" <k9zm@frontiernet.net> writes:
> Some of you folks are aware that I have been doing some tower work 
> lately.  I was cranking down the Hazer or should I say getting it 
> into position to crank down.  There was still some tension in the 
> upper guys and I slacked them off some more.  But I still had just a 
> bit of tension and was able to get the release free and went to 
> crank it down.  Actually, since I have the standard winch with my 
> Hazer and not the one with a brake, it is more of a 
> controlled-by-hand let down.  The handle got away from me and 
> smacked me a good one on the top of the wrist.  The safety catch 
> caught with almost no movement of the Hazer.  I think it was all 
> still the tension in the kevlar guys.  One broken wrist.
> 
> I was in a hurry!  
> 
> I need a method of controling the descent.  A brake winch or a big 
> drill instead of the handle on that winch.
> 
> I need to make sure that kevlar guys are really slacked off.
> 
> I always learn things the hard way.  Hopefully somebody else can 
> learn something from me.
> 
> 73
> Greg K9ZM 
> 
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