I don't fear of any height, under the premise I have at least one feet on
the ground :)
73, Mirko, S57AD
(Couldn't resist)
2014-08-28 9:41 GMT+02:00 Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>:
> On Wed,8/27/2014 9:54 AM, Hans Hammarquist via TowerTalk wrote:
>
>> My wife wants to know how may of us are still climbing our own tower
>> after age 68. If you don't any longer, please tell when you stopped. (Now I
>> gave my age away)
>>
>
> I'm 72, and have never been a great physical specimen. The last tower I
> climbed was in about 1973. It was 80 ft, something like Rohn 25, I was
> working for a small A/V contractor, it was the day before Turkey Day, we
> needed to finish the job to get paid, and the guy who did the climbing hurt
> himself in some way. I climbed the tower, about 80 ft, installed the UHF
> antenna that got the Bears from South Bend for the suburban bar that was
> our client. The best part of that was a sweet young thing who was a
> waitress in the club who had a thing for steelworkers, and I was close
> enough that we had a couple of fun evenings in the woods.
>
> Between about 1985 and 2005, I climbed ladders into high stage lofts to
> inspect the sound systems I had designed and specified. I haven't been more
> than about 8 ft off the ground since then.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC (currently age 72)
>
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