The best that I have seen is flat sheets of galvanized steel cut to fit
across the rungs between the vertical metal and permanently attached up to
a point requiring a ladder to get to a climbing point. On some "erector
set" towers, this may require some bracing be done inside the lower tower
otherwise done on the outside. Also that all cables be run inside the
tower, and you have to haul a ladder out to the tower to climb it.
Seem to recall that some tower mfrs have these panels ready made.
73, Guy K2AV
On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 2:15 PM, Patrick Greenlee <patrick_g@windstream.net>
wrote:
> The*attractive nuisance*doctrine applies to the law of torts, in the
> United States. It states that a landowner may be held liable for injuries
> to children trespassing on the land if the injury is caused by an object on
> the land that is likely to attract children.
>
> So kid climbs on tower, kid is injured or killed, jury awards E N O R M O
> U S quantities of money to the kid/parents exceeding your insurance and
> bankrupting you.
>
> Juries are not always rational. They see you and your insurance policy as
> a source of free money to gift the injured irrespective of merit or lack
> thereof.
>
> I have been thinking of deterrents to climbing besides a high fence topped
> with razor wire. and 10KV fence charger. Tanglefoot is a good product that
> would deter climbers or birds perching. OK maybe on a crankup. It is a bird
> repelling measure with no poisons just is uncomfortable for the bird and a
> gooey mess to climb on. Maybe IR motion detectors and spray nozzles with
> concentrated dye, inert and non poisonous but hard to remove. Water spray
> with IR motion detection might become a fun attraction in summer, hence the
> dye.
>
> A loud siren was briefly considered but then hearing loss would be an
> issue and besides the younger crowd are all getting deaf due to earphones
> and loud rock.
>
> Any ideas from the brain trust?
>
> Please no alligators, piranhas, or other wild animals, claymores, punji
> sticks, tiger pits etc.
>
> Patrick NJ5G
>
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