Maybe I should go to the pawnshop and get me six harnesses, one for
everyday of the week, that way I won't wear them out and I can keep them
for ten years at only a fraction of the cost. I still don't know what
those brownish marks were on the last one I got from the pawnshop. Looks
like dried-up blood, hey but the price was good. I can also get a real
cheap deal on brain surgery if anybody needs it.
Seriously two years in a harness is enough for me.
You have a Good Day now,
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis Severns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Brent Childers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 12:12 AM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Tower Climbing Harness
Brent
The exofit seems to be a very good tower harness, I do not use one
myself, but other crew members with the tower company I work for use
them.
You should consider if you really need that much harness, Tower
harnesses are normally designed to keep the worker tied off 100% of
the time (when used with the proper fall protection lanyards,
positioning devices and safety climbing devices). That is the reason
for the six D-rings on the harness, The back D-ring is for attaching a
fall protection lanyard, normally a double lanyard with large ladder
hooks for clipping to the tower. The front chest D-ring is for use of
a cable grab that is attached to a safety climb cable permanently
mounted on the climbing ladder on most newer commercial towers (not
needed on most ham radio towers)
And the four side D-rings are for positioning either using a
positioning lanyard or re-bar hooks. one good feature of the exofit is
the built in bosun's seat that really helps if you have to spend a
long time in the harness.
I personally use an Elk River Tower harness that I found in a Pawn
shop for less than $80.00 and like it a lot. It sells new for about
the same as the DBI Sala Exofit. If you do not need all the features
of a full tower harness you may be better off going with just a full
body harness with side D-rings. also there are some very nice
harnesses made for rescue and entertainment rigging that would be
worth looking at.
Some companies to look at on the web are of course DBI Sala, Elk
River, Miller, MSA, Petzl work solutions, Yates, Rescue Technology and
CMC rescue. Petzl and Yates make some very nice harnesses that are
used by friends of mine in the arena rigging industry
Good luck with whatever you decide to go with and stay safe on the steel.
Dennis Severns kc0sul
Professional.Tower Tech/Rigger
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Brent Childers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: To All,
I am in the market for a new tower climbing harness. I am interested in
hearing from the group on their recommendations.
My criteria are:
1. Safety
2. Comfort
3. Cost
I am considering the ExoFitT Full Body Harnesses as it looks to be
very well
built and comfortable.
So please respond directly and I will summarize for the group.
73 - Brent
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