Originally Posted by
Stinger
We been using them for about a year now. No reportable failures. The thing about the free climbing, for all you brothers on the web that work in major cites that have junk poles, ie..catv and telephone booster boxes, three to four telephone trunklines, fire alarm, utility fiber line, secondariers, 1,2, or 3 primary circuits on a pole,etc, if you go by the rules that you do not have to use the bs after you are over an object four feet or less that would break the fall, then the bs is good for about 18 ft, after that it is free climb to get over all he crap on these junk poles to get to your work area. so why not just free climb the 18-20 feet. When I climb transmission poles, i use the bs because it is required and I have always hitch-hiked the transmission poles.