[TowerTalk] When to RETIRE from climbing?

[Tom Osborne]

I am now 71 and climbed my tower yesterday to put a 15 meter dipole on it.

'Course, it was nested to about 20 feet, but I was still up there :-)  73
Tom W7WHY



Boxers or briefs?

I think John Hettish is in his 70s now and still going strong climbing....

Dave
n4zkf


-----Original Message-----
From: towertalk-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Rex Lint
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 5:27 PM
To: 'K8RI on TT'; towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: [TowerTalk] When to RETIRE from climbing?

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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