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Subject: [TowerTalk] Raising a Universal Tower
From: younga@worldnet.att.net (Alan Young)
Date: Fri May 16 13:20:41 2003
I am in need of some ideas on raising a tilt over base, 40 Universal tower.  It 
is aluminum, with a rotator, 20 lb 9 ft. mast and a Force 12 C3ss antenna that 
is about 30 lbs.  The tower can be walked up hand over hand by myself without 
the ant, mast, and rotator, but we tried with 4 large people and couldn't get 
it past about 30 degrees.  No more leverage at our height.  Is it possible and 
wise to attatch a line at the 30' level, route it above the peak of a roof and 
use a vehicle to pull it up?  Any thoughts or suggestioins would be most 
helpful.
Thanks,
Alan Young
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