[TowerTalk] tower climbing shoes or boots - suggestions needed

[Mark - N5OT]

It sounds like you're climbing it like a ladder. Rather than climbing it 
like a ladder, an alternative could be to only put one foot in one 
vertical face and the other foot in an adjacent vertical face.  
Essentially you "straddle" the vertical tube at the corner of the 
triangle.  Then both feet can be at the same level without sharing a 
single horizontal brace.

Then your shoes can be 10 inches wide :-)

73 - Mark N5OT


On 9/18/2021 11:23 AM, k7lxc--- via TowerTalk wrote:
>> 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!!
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