[TowerTalk] Climbing advice

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Mike,

Looks like you have received a lot of good advice already. I am a retired senior microwave technician and a U.S. Merchant Marine Radio Officer, I have spent a lot of time on 130' towers with a spectrum analyzer and also performed work on high masts, it seems it takes a while to get acclimated, I used to go up 20 or 30 feet and relax and then go up some more and stop and get comfortable and keep going. Back in the 1960's I bought a three legged self-supporting tower that was about 83' high, I hired a so called jack of all trades to disassemble it, he got at about the thirty foot mark and got the "squirts", climbing is not for everybody-
 
Bob
K6OSM
 
 
 
In a message dated 8/6/2017 3:10:43 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
mike.nd9g at gmail.com writes:
 
Hello all,I was finally able to get my tower upright. It's 50' and 54' to the top ofthe mast, freestanding. Nothing big by many of your standards, but it's acity lot, so have some limitations.My problem is that I'm having difficulty climbing it. I used to climb, whenI was younger and a little less wise (teens), but it's been about 25 yearssince I've done it. I'm still plenty young enough to do this physically,but just can't seem to get myself up high enough to be useful.I can easily pay someone to come out and do the work to get the antennasand stuff up there, which is fine. However, i feel that I should at leastbe able to do some of my own work for maintenance and such, and not alwayspaying someone to climb it for me.Do any of you climbers have any advice that could possibly help me get overthis thing in my head?73,Mike ND9G______________________________________________________________________________________________TowerTalk mailing listTowerTalk at contesting.comhttp://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk