Don't worry. If you fall the chances are very good that an extremity will get jammed into the ladder and you will be all nice and rolled up in a ball wedged between the cage and the ladder. And the extremity that is now broken in 10 pieces will be above where you are so the rescuers will need to get above you to disentagle you. Hence Chuck's scenario...complicated rescue.
If you are not bleeding and still able to breath (and the people coming to save you don't kill you) you will probably survive. It will definately be an event you will never forget. I would hope that I would pass out from the pain. LOL -B- Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -----Original Message----- From: John Valenti <vale...@lir.msu.edu> Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 15:18:43 To: WISPA General List<wireless@wispa.org> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Grain leg safety cage (was Re: Tower accident) It hasn't happened yet, but I'm hoping I have the good sense to stick out an arm or leg and jam myself into the cage. Probably very painful, but no long lasting damage? Usually I have a backpack on, and have to climb the ladder more vertical than normal, just to avoid dragging on the cage. So I'm thinking something will catch before falling too far. -John On Jan 7, 2009, at 2:29 PM, Brian Rohrbacher wrote: > What happens when you fall? > > Brian > > John Valenti wrote: >> >> Brian, >> Why would you want to add a safety cable to the cage? I'm on several >> legs with the cages and they seem great. I usually just lean back to >> take a break while climbing. >> >> It seems like an unnecessary bother, and something else to get in the >> way while climbing the ladder. Just curious what your thinking is, >> maybe I'm missing something. >> -John >> >> >> On Jan 6, 2009, at 9:20 PM, Brian Rohrbacher wrote: >> >> >>> I have seriously thought about putting a cable going up the center >>> of >>> the ladders on all the elevator legs we're on. There is already one >>> on >>> the leg that has no cage. Then we could clip on a go, with either a >>> belt or a light harness (unlike my big sit down elk river harness >>> that >>> is a little heavy). Anyone run these cable before? What is needed? >>> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
