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

[w0zq at aol.com]

Myself, I would never ever climb a crank-up tower, even if its pinned.  Never ever.  Get a bucket truck or tip it over.

73, Jon
W0ZQ

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From: Paul Beckmann <wa0rse at gmail.com>
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Sent: Wed, Feb 19, 2014 2:05 pm
Subject: Re: [NLRS] Never, ever commit this error of smarts ....



If you must climb a tower in the extended position, e.g., a jammed pulley,
 would imagine that placing 2x4s in multiple places through the lattices
f the tower sections, especially under the bottoms of the interior
ections, would be a place to start. What else could be done that would be
onsidered "good practice"?
Paul, wa0rse

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n 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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