[TowerTalk] When to RETIRE from climbing?

[Alan NV8A]

On 03/17/11 05:26 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?

I retired before I ever started. :-) I was planning to get a fixed tower 
I would have to climb, but my dear wife said, "Even if it costs a lot 
more, buy one you don't have to climb." I now have a crank-up tilt-over 
UST 55-footer.

73

Alan NV8A