OY! I can't even watch that video.
Those guys are just plain nuts.
marlon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Robinson" <markrob@mindspring.com>
To: "Tom Osborne" <w7why@frontier.com>
Cc: <TowerTalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 3:29 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Breaking all the tower climbing rules
atanamazingheight...
> There was a death a while back when a climber fell and it looked like one
> of
> those climbing pegs had rusted through and had snapped off when weight was
> put on it
>
> Mark N1UK
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Osborne" <w7why@frontier.com>
> To: "Towertalk" <towertalk@contesting.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, 01 December, 2010 6:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Breaking all the tower climbing rules at
> anamazingheight...
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>> Watching them go up the last 50 feet or so made me wonder just what would
>> happen if one of those climbing pegs snapped off. Be a LONG way down.
>> At
>> that height seems like they would get kinda rusty. 73
>> Tom W7WHY
>>
>>
>> Seems to be a commercial operation. I guess the OSHA inspector
>> couldn't (wouldn't) make an on-site inspection. Also, note the
>> porcupine dissipators on the way up.
>>
>> http://www.liveleak.com/mp53/player.swf?config=http://www.liveleak.com/mp53/player_config.php?token=f2d_1284588370%26embed=1
>>
>> 73, Joe
>> K2XX
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