Sorry I don't agree. Hooking went out with the stone age. sometimes it is necessary,most ot the time it is not. I don't know how old you are but clearly you are doped up on morphine or that artificial hip is giving you trouble. Climb away, be like the wind. You win a big gold star. I have climbed with hooks for 15 years and wish someone 15 years ago would have told me the damage I was doing to my knees. I can carry a ladder and throw it like a javelin. If the ladder don't reach I will hook. So take your cape off. In the past, and that is where it should stay,you had to hook. The 80 year old linemen on the bar don't know no better. I was walking under a stick (pole) one day and a old line dawg was hooking. his damn false teeth fell out and almost gave me a concussion.
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