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

[Paul Beckmann]

If you must climb a tower in the extended position, e.g., a jammed pulley,
I would imagine that placing 2x4s in multiple places through the lattices
of the tower sections, especially under the bottoms of the interior
sections, would be a place to start. What else could be done that would be
considered "good practice"?

Paul, wa0rse


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On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Dr. Gerald N. Johnson
<geraldj at netins.net>wrote:

>
>
> 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:
>
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 1:15 PM,<W0WOI at aol.com>  wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Ham  radio operator looses hand and fingers in tower accident.
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> "I saw his fingers fly off of his right hand," Perry told The Press.  "I
>>> never want to see something like that again."
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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