Mast Climbing

[Simon Lewis]

OK class, have a look at this video and see if you can spot any areas of concern...!

[Andrew C]

'k me! Makes me feel quite ill just watching it. I suppose you could argue, that even if you did clip on (more often) rescue just isn't going to happen, never mind in 15 minutes. You might as well be Toni Kurz.

[stevefez]

'k me! Makes me feel quite ill just watching it.

My thoughts exactly. Its alright though, 'cos theres a lift most of the way... (/sarcasm)

[HolyPhish]

and I get told off for climbing ladders without someone at the base!

[themadhippy]

wonder if the cost of clean pants is tax deductable

[Paul TC]

I suppose you could argue, that even if you did clip on (more often) rescue just isn't going to happen, never mind in 15 minutes.

When I was in one organization there was reputedly a question in the chargehand riggers interview which went "What do you do if your partner falls off the mast ?". Usual answer was "put his climbing harness on".

[ramdram]

Tale told by our riggers about two of them inside the candle (fibre glass weather shield thing). First one goes thru' hatch to check on lightning spike or lamp, (can't remember now), and as he gets onto the top of the candle finds his hook is not attached and, because there is frost or wet on the cover starts sliding off the edge and misses grabbing the hatch coaming.

 

Second, bigger, stronger rigger hears anguished shout and hurls himself up thru hatch and just, rpt just manged to grab hold of safety harness as his mate's legs go over the edge. And yes, it was brown trousers time. However they have to finish the maintenance job whathaveyou, so first rigger has to continue working as he filled his boots...it took too long to get down and back with a change of keks and overalls.

 

The only comment at the end of the tale was that the second rigger had to endure the "aroma" for the rest of the job. He climbed down second...with his eye on every round...

[gareth]

OK class, have a look at this video and see if you can spot any areas of concern...!

"404 Page Not Found" :** laughs out loud **:

[Locksmith]

From the website's blog

 

I sent out an email this weekend advertising a new video about tower climbing. It was a great video and I wish I could show it to you but the person I got it from expressed some concerns about how it reflected on the tower industry and ask me to take it down. So I did. But not to worry, we have agreed to work on more videos in the near future and I am sure they will be as good or better than the one I had to take down.

 

Sorry if you feel mislead or cheated but it was the only thing I could do.

 

I will let you all know when we have more videos on tower climbing, hopefully in the very near future. Thanks for tuning in. Russ

 

Possibly due to this thread :** laughs out loud **:

 

Pity, sounded interesting

 

DJ

[gareth]

Ar$e. Anyone care to give us a precis of what the video showed?

[Andrew C]

A climb to the top of a 1700' guyed mast, seldom clipped on. Helmet mounted camera, the swaying of which was nausea inducing; not the prospect of making so much strawberry jam about 9 seconds after loosing concentration for a moment.

[HolyPhish]

It included:

 

an un-shown journey of 1600 ft in an 'elevator'

 

Then a 100ft climb up an access ladder

 

then a 65ft climb up what can only be described as a pole with spikes sticking out of it

 

then the transfer onto a platform about 2ft square with a bollard in the middle of it.

 

all filmed on a helmet mount camera.

 

All shots (including those looking at his/her feet) showed how large the drop to ground was

 

All underneath a nice calm voice over telling us what was happening!

[themadhippy]

Dont forget the 30LB tool bag dangling between his legs

[Tom Baldwin]

Shame I didn't see it when it was still up there - all I can find now is the last frame:

http://www.theonlineengineer.org/TheOLEBLOG/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/End-Frame.png

http://www.theonlineengineer.org/TheOLEBLO...9/End-Frame.png

[ramdram]

The voiceover explained that it was OK under OSHA rules to climb and clip so to speak; OSHA:

 

http://www.osha.gov/comp-links.htm

 

Because the v.o. guy said...it was too "dangerous" (eh?!) to clip-climb- unclip-clip-climb-unclip-clip and so on. When the rigger got to the top there seemed to be no "proper" handholds/rounds to climb on. Then when he clipped onto the galvy ring it seemed as if they were convenient holes and not purpose designed rings.

 

ER, are we sure the bag between his legs contained his tools or jewels? Cos you'd need some "jewels" to stroll around a 2ft OD platform, shared with your oppo...a mere 1760 odd feet above the ground.

 

I got the heebies just watching. Then it was a bit of an anticlimax when he got to the top and it seemed to be just a dipole about 2" OD, but no idea as to how long it was.