I mentioned it earlier. Tuf-Tug makes them. They are called safer climbs.
73 Dave n4zkf
On 9/18/14 12:10 PM, "Chris" <EZRhino@fastmovers.biz> wrote:
>The slickest thing I've ever seen is a cable stretched tight from top to
>bottom of the tower, and the climber has a device that goes on the cable
>that only slides UP the cable. It can't slide down, so if you fell it
>would hold fast. This also gives both hands free for climbing. I've
>never seen these on a ham tower though. Lots of them in my neck of the
>woods on ski lift towers.
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>Chris
>KF7P
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>On Sep 18, 2014, at 10:03 AM, TexasRF--- via TowerTalk wrote:
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>> 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
>>
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>> 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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