A 1000lb winch on the roof a your house? Must be some hefty roof!
David Robbins K1TTT
e-mail: mailto:k1ttt@arrl.net
web: http://www.k1ttt.net
AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://dxc.k1ttt.net
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Jones [mailto:djetc@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2009 18:36
> To: towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: [TowerTalk] tower raising winch
>
>
> I have a Tri Ex 588 tower I am looking to add a winch to raise my winch
> and tilt it up right. I am looking at a 10,000 pound winch to attach to
> the roof of my house for raising and lowering it from to ground to install
> antenna and do maintenance. My question is that the winch is for 12 volt
> operation wiith automatic braking. I know that a hoist is more suitable
> for stable holing power for in and out cable pull. Can the winch be used
> safeely for the raising and lowering since it has automatic braking? I was
> hoping it would work since the total pulling power is way over the limit
> needed to raise the tower since the whole tower only weighs less than 500
> pounds.
> Thank
> Dave
> KB0CVV
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> TowerTalk mailing list
> TowerTalk@contesting.com
> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk
_______________________________________________
_______________________________________________
TowerTalk mailing list
TowerTalk@contesting.com
http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk
|