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Subject: [TowerTalk] Leather Glooves
From: n8de@thepoint.net (Don Havlicek)
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 20:27:13 -0500
Don,
I would suggest that you run the plastic tubing through your sleeves,
inside the coat/jacket [much like a child's mittens], getting it away
from your neck.  No matter how 'weak' that cord is, being 'garroted' is
NOT a happy thought.
Don
N8DE

VE6JY Don Moman wrote:
> 
> We all have our favourite foot and handwear and sometimes even have good
> reasons for using what we use.  I prefer to climb with the soft leather
> welding gloves that have the high cuffs  to protect well over the wrists.
> It's often the wrists that take the real beating.  These gloves are quite
> inexpensive and are typically unlined - it makes it easy to get your hands
> in and out even if they are sweaty.  I wear a short cord (made from thin and
> not very strong plastic tubing) around my neck with a pair of small battery
> charger clips on them to grip the cuff of the glove. Nothing that is strong
> enough to choke one's self on.   You can often get in and out of the gloves
> without using your other hand, which is handy. Up here, if we didn't climb
> when it was cold enough that you needed gloves, that would really make for
> one busy weekend.....
> 
> 73 Don
> VE6JY
> 
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