Safety harnesses? Nah - they're for poofs, mate. Apparently.
Reminded me of another one.
Replacing the HF aerial on a Beverley.
Out of the astrodome, fix one end of the aerial to the mast.
Walk along the top of the boom to the tail, wearing the safety harness and clipping another section of safety line on every 10 feet or so.
Reach the tail and fix the aerial cable to the shackle on the tail, job done.
I walk back along the boom, looping up the safety line.
Mate with head through astrodome watching all this, when I get back to the hole he asks, 'why are you using the safety harness?'
I said 'in case I slipped off.'
He takes the harness off me and says 'Watch', and throws the harness over the side.
That was the moment I learn't that a Beverly was longer than its height!
