Chuck, you need Hollywood to make a movie of your life. We'll call it a comedy... But I'm sure there is a ton of drama.
On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 4:16 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I was on the ground once in a situation like that. The tower would start > hissing, then a nearby strike would hit and it would go quiet. I could > literally hear a strike building up. My co workers had left me at the site > with no rig. So tower inside a chain link fence or field. I balanced my > whole body on my playmate lunch box and rode it out. Storm passed directly > overhead with strikes a quarter mile away. > > *From:* Lewis Bergman > *Sent:* Sunday, July 9, 2017 1:39 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG]Tech’s condition is stable after he allegedly rode > guy wire down > > > I was on a 500 foot tower when I was 18. Thunderstorm came up quick and I > could see the lightening getting closer. I contemplated riding the guy down > as I had a block pulley with me. > I figured I was more sure to die that way and set my excess equipment down > instead so I could move faster. I made it about half way down, belted onto > the tower and leaned back and rode it out. > The tower wad humming like a substation with high power lines. Every time > lightening would strike it world studder. Scary 10 minutes. > > On Sun, Jul 9, 2017, 11:40 AM Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Until you hit an egg strain insulator... >> >> *From:* Jaime Solorza >> *Sent:* Sunday, July 09, 2017 9:48 AM >> *To:* Animal Farm >> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG]Tech’s condition is stable after he allegedly rode >> guy wire down >> >> Ok..let's say you had to get off tower in a hurry. You could tie your >> work and safety lanyards to guyed wire. So now you are sliding down >> it...guess you could wrap legs around it and come down slower with >> hopefully gloved hands. Or wrap lanyard around guyed wire several times as >> braking system? Yikes..still sounds spooky...as a kid we had two of those >> military type rope things that we would used to slide down one inch rope >> from tree to tree... about 30 ft down to 20..ah youth!!! How would some of >> you daring young bucks do it? >> >> Jaime Solorza >> On Jul 9, 2017 9:35 AM, "CBB - Jay Fuller" <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> "began to descend due to rain and lightning" - that could be a >>> reason.... >>> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> *From:* Jay Weekley >>> *To:* [email protected] >>> *Sent:* Sunday, July 9, 2017 9:30 AM >>> *Subject:* [AFMUG] Tech’s condition is stable after he allegedly rode >>> guy wire down >>> >>> Tech’s condition is stable after he allegedly rode guy wire down from an >>> ATC Texas tower >>> >>> "A tower tech is reported to be in stable condition and is expected to >>> be released from a hospital tomorrow after reportedly using a guy wire >>> to descend from his work station on an American Tower Corp. 300-foot >>> guyed tower off of Highway 183 in Cuero, Tex." >>> >>> http://wirelessestimator.com/articles/2017/techs-condition- >>> is-stable-after-he-fell-from-atc-tower-in-texas/ >>> >>> >>> I assume this is a case of "hey y'all....watch this!" >>> >>>
