re: What do the hard hats protect?

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I bet you were tied off to the block for that too

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...... No safety lines this was still old school roughnecking.

I hated using derrick climbing belts. I worried more about falling while trying to take my belt off and back on. You get 2/3 of the way up climbing you're too tired to be scared of heights.

Climbing belts were fun though coming down the derrick. Because of the counter weight you used your hands and feet as brakes on the outside of the ladder while free falling " gliding" down instead of climbing down.