Duals if you are not using a safety climb. Yes?. 100% tie off
73 Dave n4zkf
On 9/18/14 12:03 PM, "TexasRF--- via TowerTalk" <towertalk@contesting.com>
wrote:
>Please enlighten me: when climbing with a gorilla hook, is there only one
>
>hook/lanyard used or are there two hook/lanyards used?
>
>If two, wouldn't there always be one of the hooks attached to the tower?
>
>73,
>Gerald K5GW
>
>
>In a message dated 9/18/2014 8:49:18 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
>xdavid@cis-broadband.com writes:
>
>
>Yes, you have indeed said that several times here before, and it was
>just as ignorant a comment then as it is now. Every time you unhook or
>hook to the tower you only have one hand on the tower ... just exactly
>as you only have one hand on the tower when you reach up while climbing
>... the difference being whether or not you are hooked in while that
>second hand isn't on the tower. How you can possibly believe that one
>hand on the tower is safer than one hand on the tower PLUS one hook on
>the tower, or that a free hand not on the tower is more reliable than a
>hook already on the tower, is totally beyond me.
>
>Dave AB7E
>
>
>
>On 9/17/2014 8:42 PM, Doug Renwick wrote:
>> I have said this many times before. If you can't 'free climb' then you
>> SHOULD NOT be climbing at all. The use of a gorilla hook has it's
>>place
> -
>> for resting or at the work station. But IMO it should not be used to
>assist
>> the climb! Every time you have to hook and unhook the gorilla hook it
>means
>> you only have one hand left on the tower. That to me is unsafe. With
>free
>> climbing, both hands are available to grab the tower. If you can't
>>free
>> climb - don't climb.
>> Doug
>>
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