My close call was at NAS Miramar in the early '70's. We had pulled the TACAN antenna off for bearing replacement, and were to reinstall the antenna on a Saturday. The TACAN is in the rear of a large paved pad, and I and a mate were on the tower. In came the old 6x6, swung a big "u-ie" We could see what was going to happen and could not believe that the driver wasn't going to stop. The crane op was trying to swing the thing, beepin his miserable signal horn. The driver finally got it and stopped--but the stick still had enough momentom to slap the tower.
I'm sure I set a world record down that ladder, and was going to murder myself one each crane driver. Two of my crew had to stop me. I still get would up thinking about that, and how close it was
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