Vintage Drag-strip video my Dart Circa 1992
The Rohn free standing towers, the God Damn owners are sometimes too cheap to buy the center ladder kits, and instead use the PITA climbing pegs on one leg. They are offset, so you can never stand "level" and rest. They catch on all your gear. There's one death, the guy was allegedly "free" climbing, and one peg failed. The cell monopoles are worse yet.
Most of the towers I climbed were smaller , like Rohn 25, up to 200ft, so you had to "caribeener" click click your way up with two fall arrest straps. That gets old but it's better than bein' dead, "I guess."
Me, at 50 up a little tower in Colfax, WA. This was in late 90's
Great. Watched your stack climb. That fall arrest system looks like a real PITA. I used one similar that was in a water tower, so it was protected from weather, and fairly new. It worked OK. All of those have their faults. Most of them I encountered on towers were the wire rope type. Those too, are "iffy" in my book. For one, you don't know the condition (cable type) of the top anchor, and there's only one at the top. Is it corroded, lightning damaged, loose, missing hardware, or in the case of one accident, improperly installed?
The Rohn free standing towers, the God Damn owners are sometimes too cheap to buy the center ladder kits, and instead use the PITA climbing pegs on one leg. They are offset, so you can never stand "level" and rest. They catch on all your gear. There's one death, the guy was allegedly "free" climbing, and one peg failed. The cell monopoles are worse yet.
Most of the towers I climbed were smaller , like Rohn 25, up to 200ft, so you had to "caribeener" click click your way up with two fall arrest straps. That gets old but it's better than bein' dead, "I guess."
Me, at 50 up a little tower in Colfax, WA. This was in late 90's
