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Re: [TowerTalk] When to RETIRE from climbing?

To: "Rex Lint" <rex@lint.mv.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] When to RETIRE from climbing?
From: Robert Harmon <k6uj@pacbell.net>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:17:44 -0700
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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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