Unfortunately, my knees, injured 50 years ago, have kept me from
climbing since the early 1990's.
At age 74, I'm planning one last trip to the top of my tower ... when
it is erected next year ... to video the horizon and then never climb
again.
I'll need assistance with a good halyard and someone pulling on it to
haul me up there, but one trip for 'old-time sake'.
73
Don
N8DE
Quoting Tom Osborne <w7why@frontier.com>:
> 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@contesting.com
> [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Rex Lint
> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 5:27 PM
> To: 'K8RI on TT'; towertalk@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@contesting.com
> [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of K8RI on TT
> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 4:16 PM
> To: towertalk@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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