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4th Jan 2011, 12:56 am | #41 | ||
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Re: Transmission tower climb
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I work at emley moor, thats 1200ft of concrete, and it sways up to 3 meters EACH WAY! at the top
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4th Jan 2011, 9:19 am | #42 |
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Re: Transmission tower climb
Indeed. Our mast at Skelton (the tallest man-made structure in the UK) is fixed at the top by radials, and so cannot sway. It goes a sort of 'S'-shape instead!
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4th Jan 2011, 10:45 am | #43 |
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Re: Transmission tower climb
Chairman of Interview Board: None of these candidates is what I am looking for. I want a man who can climb a transmitter tower in a gale! I want a hairy engineer!!
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4th Jan 2011, 12:04 pm | #44 |
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Re: Transmission tower climb
It's weird. I couldn't use a step-ladder as a teenager. At work I regularly climbed tall lattice masts and towers -and worked happily on the outside of the structures attached only by a thin pole belt. Wriggled up the old stand-by UHF TV antenna at the top of Emley once without any problem. Could comfortably (maybe not the right word) sit on the top of guyed poles on the top of tall buildings. But 1) I really don't enjoy descending sloping ladders, the last 20 feet of the Lichfield and Sutton Coldfield TV masts was always the worst bit, 2) bendy lightweight extending ladders are enjoyed even less, and 3) if I casually glanced over the side of a 2-storey building from the edge of a flat roof in the days before being attached was compulsory I would't do it a second time...!
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4th Jan 2011, 1:29 pm | #45 |
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Re: Transmission tower climb
Well, I'm not a company climber, so I'm not allowed up the towers, although I have been up Emley. I think I can appreciate that last 20ft of Lichfield, I've seen it, don't fancy climbing something help up by a ball bearing! (and a bent one at that). Its normal ladders for me as well, attached access ladders, scaffolds, towers, poles - no problem. Ordinary ladders - terrified!
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4th Jan 2011, 4:16 pm | #46 | |
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Re: Transmission tower climb
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Don't know if I would! I'd keep telling myself: 'it's not going to fall down; been up years... it's not going to fall down; been up years; it's not going...'
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4th Jan 2011, 8:53 pm | #47 |
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Re: Transmission tower climb
I think the Designers should go up first, then again at regular intervals.
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5th Jan 2011, 6:56 pm | #48 | |
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anti-fading section? wow, that looks like one mean capacity hat! er, no, dont think i'd care to climb past that joint!
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5th Jan 2011, 9:17 pm | #49 |
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Re: Transmission tower climb
I drive past Dodford regularly - shame that mast isnt there any more!
I fancy climbing the old Backbone mast at RAF Barkway (also fancy shunt feeding it for some serious 160m work!)
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5th Jan 2011, 10:13 pm | #50 | |
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The capacity-hat radial arms were 30' long and 10" diameter. They could be lowered in to the sides of the mast by means of halyards, if the extra capacity was not required. As it happened, the capacity hat increased the effective (electrical) height of the mast by 56'. Sometimes it's difficult to scale these things from a photograph!
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11th Jan 2011, 1:57 pm | #51 |
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Re: Transmission tower climb
Emly Moor. Is that the one that collapsed many years ago?
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11th Jan 2011, 2:02 pm | #52 | |
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yes, same site. Very unlikely the current 1200ft of concrete wonder will ever fall down!
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