"Dave Liquorice" wrote in message
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On Wed, 6 Jul 2011 15:09:44 +0100, michael adams wrote:

When you fall you should be be in fairly close proximity to the
scaffolding or the ladder. In fact its hard to visualise a situation
where this wouldn't apply. Given which you can grasp the
ladder or the scaffolding and release the rope.

Assuming that the ladder is still in position and not lying on the
ground.

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The ladder was tied at the top to the same crossbar as the
climbing rope. Which is where I came in.

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Assuming that you haven't knocked yourself out hitting the ladder,
scaffold, wall, WHY, on the way down.

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So you don't recommend wearing a safety helmet then ?

For somebody as concerned as you seem to be with banging your head
on ladders, scaffolding, walls, this seems to be rather a strange
omission.

In any case the rope should be threaded through the karibiner and quick
release as you climb the ladder. There is no need for more than say 3-6ft
of slack at the top of the ladder. Its not as if you're going to
go very far is it ?

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Being in a harness with no-one else about to help you get down should
you end up dangling in it is really rather risky.#

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Sure thing. Hanging on the end of 3ft of rope.

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In any case when attaching a rope to a harness it should first be run
around and through a karibiner and attached using a quick release
device rather than a knot. In the event of a fall this will allow the
user to easily release the rope and control the speed of the rope by
using the friction of the rope going through the Karibiner to
allow a slow descent.

That is good advice but does assume that the person is concious or
hasn't got a broken arm... It also requires the person to know how to
thread the rope through the karibiner and have the quick release
device etc.

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Indeed. It assumes the person isn't a complete numpty. But then if they
were complete numpties they would probably already have succeeded
in killing or seriously injuring themselves in any number of ways.



michael adams

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Cheers
Dave.