To reiterate:
(from TT archives)
Re: [TowerTalk] Climbing Gear resource needed
from [Dale Martin] [Permanent Link][Original]
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Climbing Gear resource needed
From: "Dale Martin" <kg5u@hal-pc.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 23:58:30 -0500
List-post: <mailto:towertalk@contesting.com>
I have:
1 Fall Arrest harness and belt - $90
1 4' lanyard - $39
1 6' lanyard - $40
The knowledge and comfort that I am connected to the tower at all times -
priceless
73
Dale, kg5u
> 3) ALWAYS stay clipped into the tower 100% of the time. (I
> climb with my positioning lanyard around the tower, plus my
> fall arrest is connected. While I am moving my fall arrest, I
> have another short lanyard that I clip in -- slow, but very safe)
>
> Compared to some of my peers who free-climb to height and
> belt in, I'm a wimp. But, I'm a safe wimp.
>
> Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL Mail: aa4lr@arrl.net
> Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
> -- Wilbur Wright, 1901
>
Wimp #2 here, Bill.
73,
Dale
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