[TowerTalk] Tower Tip

[Bud Hippisley, K2KIR]

Well, nothing I can add will top W7EW's Tip #4 (Go the the bathroom BEFORE you go up the tower), but here's a couple of small ones for us older folks who don't take kindly to having to climb more than once or twice a day.

Tip #1.  In your toolbox or on the wall of your garage or other staging area for tower work, keep some 3 x 5 file cards or a sheet of paper with listings BY TASK of the tools you need for each kind of work at the top of the tower.  For instance, I carry up totally different sizes of open end wrenches and sockets for my socket wrench depending on whether I'm adding tower sections or installing a Yagi or rotor.

Tip #2.  Take up some extra hardware in your hardware pouch....just in case you drop a washer or hex nut.  Also, take up redundant tools; socket wrenches AND open end wrenches of the same size AND a crescent wrench.  For the crescent wrench, either metric or English is OK. 

Bud, K2KIR