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Keith wrote:

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This guy carries 30 pounds of tools up the ladder with him? Most
climbers I know take the end of a line with them, then attach a pulley
where they'll be working, then they send the end of the rope back down.
Then the ground crew can send up tools, parts, whatever, and you don't
have to worry about not forgetting anything but the rope and the pulley.

The climbers you know probably climb 100 ft towers?

With this tower that would require 3,400 ft of rope, which probably
weighs more than the tools and will be very difficult to handle.

You take a messenger rope (3/32") up with you. Once through the pulley
and back down that rope is used to lift a more substantial rope, all
done by the winch on the service truck. This is a safety feature. People
cramp up sometimes.