[NLRS] Never, ever commit this error of smarts ....

[Dr. Gerald N. Johnson]

Most manuals for telescoping towers are clear about never climbing them 
when not completely collapsed just because of this hazard. And that 
notification will protect the tower company from liability.

73, Jerry, K0CQ

On 2/19/2014 1:25 PM, Zack Widup wrote:
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> Was it a crank-up telescoping tower? I thought the idea behind those was
> you crank them all the way down to work on your antennas, then crank them
> up to use them. I would never even climb on one that was cranked up. It's a
> wonder he didn't lose his feet, too.
>
> 73, Zack W9SZ
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>
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 1:15 PM,<W0WOI at aol.com>  wrote:
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>> Ham  radio operator looses hand and fingers in tower accident.
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>> A 52-year-old ham radio operator in Athol lost several fingers and one of
>> his hands Thursday when his amateur radio antenna tower collapsed on him
>> while  he was working on it.
>>
>> Multiple agencies responded to Bearpaw Galindo's home on Caravelle Road
>> after his wife, Gail Perry, phoned 911 and informed a dispatcher the man
>> was
>> hanging 20 feet in the air with his right arm pinned within a
>> telescoping-type  tower.
>>
>> Perry said Galindo was repairing a portion of the 40-foot-tall  telescoping
>> tower, when a cable holding it up snapped and caused the top  portions of
>> the tower to collapse on his hands.
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>> "I saw his fingers fly off of his right hand," Perry told The Press.  "I
>> never want to see something like that again."
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>>
>> According to the Timberlake Fire Protection District, crews were
>> dispatched to the scene at 11:58 a.m., and proceeded to raise the tower in
>> an  effort
>> to free Galindo's arm. After 20 minutes, the man was extricated and
>> lowered to the ground.  Galindo was trapped for a total of 45  minutes.
>>   "I can't
>> say anything better about them," Perry said of the  emergency responders.
>> "They were awesome."
>>
>> Galindo was then transported by Life Flight to Kootenai Health.   Doctors
>> told Perry her husband was in critical condition early Thursday  evening.
>> At
>> 3 p.m., Galindo was taken into surgery, where doctors performed a  partial
>> amputation on his left hand and a full amputation on the right.
>>
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