[TowerTalk] When to RETIRE from climbing?

[Jim W7RY]

>>>>>"I always use a full safety harness and two lanyards alternatively 
>>>>>snapped in as I climb"

That is called "staying 100% connected" which is an OSHA requirement.  And a 
good idea!

73
Jim W7RY


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From: "Robert Harmon" <k6uj at pacbell.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 5:17 PM
To: "Rex Lint" <rex at lint.mv.com>
Cc: <towertalk at contesting.com>; "'K8RI on TT'" <k8ri-on-towertalk at tm.net>
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 at contesting.com
>> [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of K8RI on TT
>> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 4:16 PM
>> To: towertalk at 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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