[TowerTalk] tower climbing shoes or boots - suggestions needed

[k7lxc at aol.com]

> My tennis shoes barely fit between the Rohn 25 verticals, so I ASSuME bootswould be too wide, although I've never seen tower climbing shoes before(vs. boots), but maybe they are made. //////////     Tennis shoes for tower climbing are good for about 10 minutes and that's about it. I've used real mountain climbing boots for all my tower activities and have worn out a couple of pairs over the years.  ////////     Yes, 25G is a PITA but my big climbing boots will work FB. The trick is to put your right foot on the horizontal and then the left one. It's a tight fit but really no problem.  //////// >  The thought occurred to me that some simple metal plates could be strappedto the bottoms of my tennis shoes, kind of like the old metal skates I hadin the early 70's, for a cheap alternative without investing in a pair ofshoes that I'll use only a couple dozen times in my lifetime.  However,I've never seen such a thing on the market, but maybe they exist. //////     Umm, no. Others have mentioned various boots and any of them with a steel or fiberglass shank will work just fine.  ////// Cheers & safe climbing,Steve      K7LXCTOWER TECH -Professional tower services for professional and amateurCell: 206-890-4188 PS - For some reason our Mailman doesn't recognize the carriage returns in my AOL emails and everything gets run together.  I put in the ///// to see if that'll help. If anyone has a suggestion to help my emails, please let me know. Tnx!!