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Harold in CR:
Look--------------up in the sky---------------it's a bird-------------------it's a plane---------------it's sploop--------------a yard of concrete. ::) ::) A tragic thing to take place, but, ya gotta admit, sometimes ya gotta do what ya gotta do.
Fresh out of linemans school, when I was working for the Power company, we were assigned to do a Palnut, lock nut, tighten/replace missing nuts on a section of 300' highline towers. Our climbing belts were very clumsy as you had to sit on the cross arms to reach UNDER them to tighten or replace the nuts. First I did, I nearly lost by balance from the safety strap, so, the next 2 I left it hanging on the main structure. ::)
Very nearly got fired for that stunt.
You DO have a vivid imagination, Frank. Good stuff you post. !!!!
Frank S:
Harrold you will never convince a safety inspector of this but there are times when you are safer working without part of your gear than having all of your kit hanging off your body to contend with. Having to hook 1 strap then move the other and leap frog to get where you are going has gotten more than 1 person in trouble causing them to fall and then have to be rescued because their kit had gotten fouled. Often times having a short enough safety strap that will prevent you from falling in the first place is much better than a drop strap that arrests your fall as it pays out because once you fall you cannot self recover This doesn't mean you wouldn't want to have it there as a second safety but I've been on jobs where they wanted you to have 2 of them in addition to your work strap if your not careful you wind up braiding your lines and get them so fouled you spend more time trying to free your fouled lines you don't get anything done.
Frank S:
I decided that soon I will be working from the scaffold and knowing how fidgety the frau gets when I am off the ground I drug out my harness and belt only I didn't find the one that was a combination of harness with the belt made in I liked it because additionally I could attach tool pouches to it. and just have to out on the 1 item with the straps through the legs and 3 buckles around the waist and chest it had 3 safety line rings to at the waist and one in back between the shoulders for the drop line
I don't' need the fall safety line drop line as I call it, as the scaffold is not really high enough for that to do any good.
SO I guess I will weave the belt through the harness and have to wear a tool belt as well
Bruce S:
--- Quote from: Frank S on December 07, 2019, 11:06:58 AM ---Dan G, Yes I went through jump school but that was 45 years ago. dumped on him from 200 feet in the air never proven if it was accidental or intentional.
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Using the way way back machine :)
I packed so many lapes and T10s I can still do them in my sleep. Come to think of it , I think I did a few in my sleep :o.
The big test was having to use the very chute you packed.
The coolest was watching ALL the lapes(es) open and still seeing a sherridan bounce.
Ahh those were to days!
4DM to the $ and good beer :-)
Bruce S
Frank S:
Bruce S what I really need right now is a pair of climbing gaffs I have an overhead twisted pair w gr #4 line that was used to run my well the poles are 30 ft tall but 200 feet apart the line where I need to cross frequently is under 20 ft closer to 17 I would guess and I can't get my gin pole under it with out laying it way out which means I can't have anything on my forks because it would just slide off. So I was thinking about just dropping the line for now then later is I decided I wanted it I could put it back up. Yesterday I rigged up a 3 sling setup that I was going to place my feet in 2 of the stirrups and raise the lines 1 at a time but after only a couple feet high I decided there were 3 problems with that age related attitude, altitude, and the length of my slings I could visualize myself several feet off the ground and my feet coming out from under me turning me turtle.
I could try shooting the tie off loop with my 338 but that only works in the movies and besides do you know how far a missed shot will travel shooting up at a steep angle? Trust me it is a heck of a lot further than I want to find out even knowing there is no one to my north for a dozen miles or more there is live stock a heck of a lot closer and the main highway is only 2 miles away
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