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Re: [TowerTalk] Old Safety Belt

To: <aa6eg@k6bj.org>, <towertalk@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Old Safety Belt
From: "JoeCoolDXer" <JoeCoolDXer@msn.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 13:21:11 -0800
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AA6EG wrote:
"At Jamesburg, there were a lot of plausible fall scenarios where a fall puts 
you in your harness 60 ft above ground, and 20 ft horizontally from a support 
surface or structure."

Reminds me of a favorite post, either this story or a link to it appeared on TT 
few years ago:

Climber on a commercial tower several hundred feet up had a safety strap with 
hook, but it was not connected when he slipped/fell.  As he passed the next guy 
wire down, the strap hook caught on it and arrested his fall but he was several 
feet away from being able to grab back on to the tower, just dangling below the 
guy wire.  After a couple minutes getting his senses back, he shinnied up the 
guy cable back to the tower, then CLIMBED BACK UP TO WHERE HE WAS WORKING AND 
FINISHED THE JOB...
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