My local rental place has 80' man lifts that I rent whenever I need to
do tower work. Maybe yours does too...
73
Matt
W5LL
On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 13:10 -0500, Artmouton wrote:
> Check the local rental places. I noticed a neighbor with a rental lift
> which he was using to trim trees. It had a chair section on the top with
> controls. It was not suitable to get to my tower (68') but the 40' foot
> would probably be fine. It was on a trailer so the transportation was not
> too bad.
> Art K5FNQ
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "W4LDE-Ron" <w4lde@cfl.rr.com>
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> Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 11:41 AM
> Subject: [TowerTalk] Where to find-rent buck truck?
>
>
> > Need some advice, had the local club scheduled to help get down my tower
> > and tribander with the thought of donating it to the club.
> > Rohn 25g 40ft, HamM-V rotor, CD-44 Rotor and a TA-32 plus a second TA-33
> > thats performed very well with over 250 DX countries.
> >
> > Had a closing on this home yesterday and now I am a renter until the end
> > of the month, then a new home SW of Atlanta
> >
> > Unfortunately the club has had to cancel due to illness of the climber,
> > I would go up but the XYL doesn't want this vintage 65 year old up on
> > the tower.
> > Last time up was two years ago after the Hurricanes hit FL. New guy
> > wires and rotor positioning was needed.
> >
> > SO - I need to get a buck truck or lift of some kind and I don't know
> > where to start. Any ideas? I am going to start with the local yellow
> > pages and maybe AES which has a local store can give me some ideas.
> >
> > Any ideas where to start is appreciated. Have a new SteppIR at the new
> > QTH waiting for me.
> >
> > 73 de
> > Ron W4LDE
> >
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