I'm an sorry to hear that. We inspect our safety climbs and I will only
use stainless steel.
73 Dave n4zkf
On 9/20/14 7:30 PM, "Herbert Schoenbohm" <herbert.schoenbohm@gmail.com>
wrote:
>My son is a Comtrain certified tower climb and was working on Bordeaux
>Peak in St. John on a 300 foot PyRod tower. The tower owners insisted
>that every climber was required to use the "fall Arrest" stainless steel
>cable without exception question and as part of his wireless companies
>contract for liabilities. His co worker went up first and stopped at
>100' to clamp off but before his co-worker could get the clamp on the
>fall arrest snapped right at the top of the tower. He fell to the ground
>but a microwave dish at 50 feet broke his fall and he survived but was
>additioally injured by the 300 feet of steel cable landing on his broken
>body on the ground. My son did CPR and called 911. While at the
>hospital, in severe pain from broken bones and just being wheeled out of
>the X-Ray and MRI chamber on a gurney, there were five lawyers
>following the victim to his room. I think he settled for about
>$900,000 but to me that would not be enough considering he was forced by
>the tower owner to use an unsafe system. Ironically another mainland
>company had done a complete tower inspection only a few months before.
>Lesson: Always pack your own parachute(s) and don't trust your life to
>the lowest tower inspection bidder, ever.
>
>
>Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ
>
>
>On 9/20/2014 7:13 PM, Steve Baughn wrote:
>> At one time AN Wireless had them on their site. Not sure if they still
>> do or not.
>>
>> Steve
>> WD8NPL
>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: Hans Hammarquist via TowerTalk
>> Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2014 6:54 PM
>> To: towertalk@contesting.com
>> Subject: [TowerTalk] Fwd: Sad day - W9ZUC tower accident
>>
>> Interesting! Where do you get one of those?
>>
>>
>> Hans - N2JFS
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Chris <EZRhino@fastmovers.biz>
>> To: towertalk@contesting.com reflector <TOWERTALK@contesting.com>
>> Sent: Thu, Sep 18, 2014 12:14 pm
>> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Sad day - W9ZUC tower accident
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Chris
>> KF7P
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sep 18, 2014, at 10:03 AM, TexasRF--- via TowerTalk 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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