[moon111]

(09-25-2010, 02:43 PM)OAC_Sparky Wrote:

(09-25-2010, 11:03 AM)moon111 Wrote: I hate climbing when there's rebar sticking up below, waiting to impale you. There's no reason why these climbers couldn't be be tied off at all times. The lack of safety disgusts me.

As someone that does free-climbing, sometimes it isn't feasible to be tied off at all times, especially in an area where it's equally dangerous using a double-lanyard. Free climbing where I work needs extra training and medical/physical tests.

Those pegs near the end aren't what you could legally tie off to anyways; they're not engineered for that, which is why he's only using them to rest. If you were using a double-lanyard, it wouldn't support the shock-load of a 200 pound man from a fall of 6-10'. It would just bend or snap off. Actual tie-off points have to be engineered to be legal by OSHA. The only real violation in the film was where the guy's partner didn't us a caribiner before he tied off like the guy with the camera did.

Rules change all the time. When I first started I had a belt(only) with a double-lanyard tying off to the fire mains walking the trusswork 50-60' in the air.

You make a good point about having to have engineered tie-off points or at the very least a safety cable going up the side. Although my co-worker had his 'engineered' tie off point come off in his hands. Only as good as the weld.

Belt only? Paraplegic or death... some choice.