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skyking

Lifer
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That wasn't actually Sear's Tower, but still nuts.

I wonder if OSHA still allows free climbing, you need fall protection for a 4 foot drop, can't believe they'd allow free climbing a completely exposed ladder like that.
you can harness up and tie off as you go up, which is a pain as you clip and unclip. When I was doing tower crane training the old tower had a 100' death ladder on it, and they put a safety cable and follower on that. You harness up and just push the follower along the cable as you go up and down. If you fall it is already grabbed on the cable so not a long fall.
Looking up the ladder, cable is on the left.
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The nope view looking down. Look for the stack of rungs in the middle. follower is there at the top of the cable, below that anchor cylinder doohickey.

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Zorba

Lifer
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you can harness up and tie off as you go up, which is a pain as you clip and unclip. When I was doing tower crane training the old tower had a 100' death ladder on it, and they put a safety cable and follower on that. You harness up and just push the follower along the cable as you go up and down. If you fall it is already grabbed on the cable so not a long fall.
Looking up the ladder, cable is on the left.
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The nope view looking down. Look for the stack of rungs in the middle.

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Yeah, I'm used to seeing the cable with an ascender.
 
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skyking

Lifer
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It was FFFFFFFFFuckin 12 degrees and a 10 MPH wind on those days. That was a motivated climb :D
The ironworker apprentices were training with operators in the 30 ton Grove below me, erecting and taking down steel beams on those stubs. Wrenches and spuds in that weather? no thanks.
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kage69

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"If it was up ta me I'd let ya go, but The Boys *holds up fists* - they been up all night drinkin."
 
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