Why would Steve's 240 foot person bother climbing at all? Couldn't he
just bend over half-way and do whatever has to be done?
My own pucker story.
I tried climbing VE7IN's 120 ft tower but chickened out after a while.
When asked how high up I had got he drily replied, "About 18 feet . . .
and that was your head."
73 de Jim Smith VE7FO
Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote:
>On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 K7LXC@aol.com wrote:
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>>A 240' person on the mast isn't anywhere close to that sort of stress.
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>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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