Comments by "ke6gwf - Ben Blackburn" (@ke6gwf) on "" video.

  1. 4:44 - Run. Do not walk, RUN AWAY! I am a rigger, and that cable makes me weak in the knees... Death waiting to happen. In regards to hanging guys below helicopter, when a cable snaps, it can recoil UP and take out the helicopter too. The only safe way to deal with this is to set charges where the cable stays from the top of the towers attach to the outer ring of ground anchors, and sever all the cables at once so that the weight of the truss pulls the now unsupported towers inwards. This keeps people as far from the danger zone as possible (unless one of the cable stays snaps at the top of the tower and recoils back to the ground anchor). Basically getting closer than the length of the cables is dangerous. The only safe way I can see to salvage it is to get someone like Mammoet (just the best heavy move company in the world) to come in with either an unlimited budget, or donating their services, and set up giant crane towers around the outer perimeter, and then snake giant cables across underneath the truss, and then winch them up to cradle under the truss, removing the weight from the existing cables without having to get any workers underneath it. Once it was supported in the cable basket, then you could start replacing the cables. But this dish is in the middle of the jungle, and getting the massive amount of giant equipment up there would probably require building new roads, new ports, and take months getting billions of dollars of specialized equipment, designed, fabricated, shipped from across the world, and hauled up into the jungle. Building a new one is probably cheaper....
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