A toe jack/lift functions well for this purpose. I use a welded toe jack
bracket (PD Machine 978-273-4841) that slips over a 4-ton bottle jack to
lift my UST HDX772 MDPL. Toe jack has "L" shaped bracket that slips over the
4-ton bottle jack providing a 2" wide by 2-1/4" long projecting lift surface
made from 1/2" thick steel to slip under the back leg of the tower. Jack
provides 7" of travel. Bought it when PD Machine was selling them on eBay --
seems it was pretty inexpensive -- about $80-90 delivered with a 4-ton
bottle jack. There are others for sale on Amazon as well.
Gary, NØGS
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From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of
jdlambrightatty@gmail.com
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2015 5:36 PM
To: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: [TowerTalk] Tilting Down a US Tower HDX-589
I have a motorized raising fixture for my US Tower HDX-589MDPL , and just last
week I successfully raised it to the vertical position for the first time.
Everything went very smoothly and effortlessly with the 1 HP motor and 50:1
ratio Hub City worm gear drive. Raising takes about 4 minutes. I haven't
installed my antennas, rotator etc. yet.
My question is what is the best way to get the tower moving from the vertical
position when I want to lower it to horizontal again? It weighs about 2,500 lbs
and is sitting very plumb on its base. Of course once it's leaned a bit, the
motorized fixture will easily lower it. There's no way you can just push it
even with some slack in the aircraft cable.
I suspect someone on the list has a simple solution.
J D Lambright
Montgomery County Attorney
936-539-7930
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