Dude......
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Only if its free??? That's putting alot of value on your life....
Staying tied off 100% of the time is great but only if you are anchored
to the right stuff. For example, there is no way to safely attach a
standard 6' "Y" fall arrest system to Rohn 25 or 45G. Did you know
that?? The fall arrest forces in most cases will tear the crossmembers
from the tower. If you are around a leg you will now exert those forces
against the side axis of the carabiner which is not as strong. If the
crossmember gives way, you just fall to the ground. But if you happen to
be anchored around a leg you may just loose one or two crossmembers as
it pulls down. Then you will just fall 8 or 9 feet before your ass gets
slammed back into the tower steel. Now that your face is all f*cked up
because you were not wearing any head protection (because, after all, no
one is working above you so wearing head protection is silly...right??).
Now you hang there with maybe a few fractured ribs, your head all banged
up, you're bleeding like a pig (which is what even the smallest head
wound does) and you have just created one of the most difficult rescue
situations in the tower industry if you are higher than the local fire
departments aerial ladder. Getting someone off a REAL tower or monopole
is hard enough. Rohn 25G has to be the worst and most dangerous. Who
will rescue your butt?? How will you get down?? Don't say you will just
climb down because not many can after falling in their harness. Hang
there for more than 30 minutes and you'll probably just expire. And you
know what??? Not even the funeral is free! So to not get any real
structured traing actually cost you anyways....in funeral costs.
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Here's a pointer you can pick up.......... GET SOME TRAINING!
-B- <--------waiting to go to the funeral
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Brian Rohrbacher wrote:
To be completely honest. Only if it's free. Otherwise, I'll stay
tied off 100% of the time and not let anyone stand below me. From
there, I'll just pick up pointers as I go along and use common sense
(something no class can teach me).
A. Huppenthal wrote:
How about a training seminar for climbing - OSHA safe.
Brian Rohrbacher wrote:
Actually, I already own it. Bill Curd sold me his extra one 2 weeks
ago.
George wrote:
Hey order the one with the aluminum bar seat in it.
It's only like 20 dollars more, and it's a lot more comfortable to
be on a tower in.
http://www.midwestunlimited.com/store_detail.lasso?-Token.id=10193
I just got one for my guy and hey says it's way more comfortable
than the other one and he can spend more time on a tower.
George
Bob Moldashel wrote:
Brian Rohrbacher wrote:
last chance. I am ordering. Well, it's been 3 years....but it's
time for a harness. Up until now I only climbed grain legs. I
am going to go up a 90ft Rohn 25g style tower. It there anything
else I need.
Yeah...How about some training???
Can I get some links to the rope and pulleys ya'll use?
http://www.midwestunlimited.com/store_detail.lasso?-Token.id=10234&-session=midwest:44FFC22E13ec524B34QXo248103D
http://www.midwestunlimited.com/store_detail.lasso?-Token.id=10241&-session=midwest:44FFC22E13ec524B34QXo248103D
http://www.midwestunlimited.com/store_detail.lasso?-Token.id=10511&-session=midwest:44FFC22E13ec524B34QXo248103D
http://www.midwestunlimited.com/store_detail.lasso?-Token.id=10192
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