I am not quire sure why people would have problems tipping a Universal Tower.
First, Universal towers should not be guyed. They are made to have some
sway in the wind and give.
Second, I tip mine in place and lower it by myself. I simply attach a pully
one third from the top of the tower. I run a cable from my house roof
(about 30 feet)
to the pully and down the tower to a winch attached to the tower at the base.
I crank the winch to let the cable out and the tower tips down (with beam and
rotor)
nicely. I crank the cable in and it pulls the tower back up to vertical.
But,
I suggest you be careful as too much weight such as large stack beams on top
of
the tower could bend the tower. My Univesal is 50 feet and have a Exp 14
beam
and rotor and a couple of small antennas on it. Works great. I have a 26
inch
base tapering to 14 inch top.
I have climbed my Universal for years and have never had a problem. So does
everyone else I know that owns Universal.
73
Mike
K0BUD
in Minneapolis
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