That's a good reason to always climb with a line and have a descender
with you. Riding a guy wire is just asking for injury or death.
On 7/9/2017 10:48 AM, Jaime Solorza wrote:
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]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
"began to descend due to rain and lightning" - that could be a
reason....
----- Original Message -----
*From:* Jay Weekley <mailto:[email protected]>
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[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/
<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!"
