You are smarter than most by making the ground person wear a hardhat. Kudos.
While she
may not be able to climb up and assist if you got in trouble she could
always use the phone.
Your also 100% tied off.
73 Dave
n4zkf
-----Original Message-----
From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Robert Harmon
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 8:18 PM
To: Rex Lint
Cc: towertalk@contesting.com; 'K8RI on TT'
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] When to RETIRE from climbing?
I am 66 and still climb my tower alone. I plan to continue until my body
tells
me. I always use a full safety harness and two lanyards alternatively
snapped in as I climb
to insure there is always one connected. I don't climb as fast
as I used to, a little more methodical about it these days. I always forget
something
after I get up the tower. My wife is always ready on the ground to put
stuff in the canvas bucket I lower down. I insist she wear a hardhat when
doing her
ground support, she isn't exactly delighted to wear the hardhat, hihi.
I haven't climbed in my underwear, the colors might clash with my harness
colors :-)
Bob
K6UJ
On Mar 17, 2011, at 2:26 PM, Rex Lint wrote:
> This brings up a question for me. I'm 68 and I decited to quit climbing
at
> 55, but then I get pressed into service each field day because I can
"screw
> up" a beam between the guywires, and I had to help K0TV put up his 50 ft
> boom 20M stack last year because he can't climb, and I can't get help
> everytime I need it on MY tower, so I climb mine SOLO... my decision to
> stop has been defeated at least every other month.
>
> What age do YOU think folks should stop climbing? How about climbing in
> their underwear?
>
> -Rex-
>
> K1HI
> Rex Lint
> Merrimack, NH
> WWW.QRZ.COM/db/k1hi
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of K8RI on TT
> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 4:16 PM
> To: towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Fw: [WISPA] Always climb with a buddy......
>
> On 3/17/2011 3:45 PM, Marlon K. Schafer (509-982-2181) wrote:
>
> To me, a nut clad only in his underware climbing a tower really has
> little to do with tower safety except maybe for anticlimb devices and a
> better fence in this case as it was a commercial tower.
>
> It's a good idea to have helpers on the ground when climbing, but I'd
> bet that well over half the climbs on ham towers are solo.
>
> Even at my age the idea of a solo climb does not bother me. OTOH I
> *need* some one(s) on the ground as I'd be lost without go-fers. When I
> go up it's usually for a number of reasons which makes it difficult to
> foresee all the tools and parts that will be needed or that I can haul
> up and down by myself.
>
> 73
>
> Roger (K8RI)
>
>
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