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Strange that they skip safety lines. It might be faster going up, but having a line down which you can just zip surely makes up for the lost time? Edit: I see

Strange that they skip safety lines. It might be faster going up, but having a line down which you can just zip surely makes up for the lost time? Edit: I see there's this response video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b9LahaBJIk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b9LahaBJIk about how you're actually supposed to climb these. With safety.

jessaustin 13y ago
Interesting that they use the old rope-around-the-waist trick. I did the same when installing a new HD antenna on the 40-ft mast behind my house. I note they also brought a long enough rope to haul the tools up once they got to the top. That seemed to me the stupidest part of the original no-safety video.
- Gravityloss 13y ago
  Why don't they use safety rails? It's actually more comfortable and faster to climb with a vest attached to a roller that is attached to a safety rail in the ladder, since it leaves your hands free. The roller will keep rolling as long as you pull away from the ladder. If you drop down, the roller will hang. I've done one spring of snow cleaning from roofs and we had a bag full of different rollers (different standards). Only had problems if the rollers were left wet and they froze. Are they not mandated in the US? Time for someone to start a business...
  - jessaustin 13y ago
    Why don't they use safety rails? Good question; I don't know enough about the specific industry to say. Knowing what I do about industry in the USA in general, I suspect that anything that must be installed on the structure, and isn't required by OSHA or by insurance companies, will not be. Aside from the expense of retrofitting, the safety rail is then one more system that must be regularly inspected, maintained, and insured. Actually I suspect that facilities for which actual employees do most of the high work, would install these systems. Transmission towers seem pretty low-maintenance, so their high work is probably done by contractors. Those guys can worry about themselves.

jessaustin 13y ago

Interesting that they use the old rope-around-the-waist trick. I did the same when installing a new HD antenna on the 40-ft mast behind my house. I note they also brought a long enough rope to haul the tools up once they got to the top. That seemed to me the stupidest part of the original no-safety video.

Gravityloss 13y ago
Why don't they use safety rails? It's actually more comfortable and faster to climb with a vest attached to a roller that is attached to a safety rail in the ladder, since it leaves your hands free. The roller will keep rolling as long as you pull away from the ladder. If you drop down, the roller will hang. I've done one spring of snow cleaning from roofs and we had a bag full of different rollers (different standards). Only had problems if the rollers were left wet and they froze. Are they not mandated in the US? Time for someone to start a business...
- jessaustin 13y ago
  Why don't they use safety rails? Good question; I don't know enough about the specific industry to say. Knowing what I do about industry in the USA in general, I suspect that anything that must be installed on the structure, and isn't required by OSHA or by insurance companies, will not be. Aside from the expense of retrofitting, the safety rail is then one more system that must be regularly inspected, maintained, and insured. Actually I suspect that facilities for which actual employees do most of the high work, would install these systems. Transmission towers seem pretty low-maintenance, so their high work is probably done by contractors. Those guys can worry about themselves.