Is it ever sensible to try and rescue someone (without involving the authorities) who has wrapped themselves around an antenna guy wire?
I was climbing a 500 ft A recently and stopped at about 200 ft to look at the guy wires that attach there. I figured that if I was going to have a wire strike it would most likely be one of the 3 wires at this level. The wires go pretty steep down to the ground which got me thinking that if you hit one, you probably wouldn't be very far horizontally from the antenna itself. That got me wondering whether you could attach a rope to the antenna (above the level where the jumper is stranded), lower the other end to the jumper, have them attach to the rope - then have them cutaway the canopy. They'd swing in to the antenna but if you attached the antenna end of the rope as high as possible I don't _think_ it would be too bad. Better than the alternative anyway.
Thoughts? Experiences? Does anyone carry rope with them as a matter of course?
Gus
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