Pushing off by hand is low on my list. I have a bad back. Also, if I
screw up or slip, it's easy to imagine the tower falling back and crushing
something. Like my hand. These things do tend to bounce around a bit in
many cases when you make the final "fall" into place.
WO7R
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Bryan Swadener via TowerTalk <
towertalk@contesting.com> wrote:
> Manually pushing my tower to start it tilting is only slightly more
> difficult than falling down.
> Keep in mind that, how tough it is to get it started is dependent on the
> mass and the distance between that mass and the hinge point. My TX472 tower
> retracted is about 28 feet tall. Most of the mass on top is a F12 C-4XL
> yagi and 15 feet of 2" OD x 1/4" THK steel mast. YMMV.
> Of course, there's nothing to prevent one from making use of Archimedes
> and his lever. :)
> vy 73,Bryan WA7PRC
>
> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 16:15:32 -0500
> From: Tom LeClerc W1TJL
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Tilting Down a US Tower HDX-589
>
> And I have a MDB-770 and an MDB-850 and with both I have an old hickory
> handle from a splitting maul and I put a small amount of slack in the
> cable and use it as a lever between the raising fixture and the tower.
> No metal pieces to scratch the galvanized but much easier than pushing
> by hand...
>
> 73, Tom W1TJL
>
>
> On 2/24/2015 4:05 PM, Bryan WA7PRC via TowerTalk wrote:
> > I have a TX472. I just put some slack into the tilt cable, and give the
> tower a push.
> > vy 73,> Bryan WA7PRC
>
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