Over the years there were at least 2 different brake designs for the bell housing type rotors from CDE / Hygain that used a brake. The older wedge was a V tip while the newer design is a rectangular
Karl Tashjian worked for Tri-Ex for 15 years and signed off as a PE on their towers. When Tri-Ex closed the doors the tooling was sold to Will-Burt a firm that makes military and commercial towers. T
I was surprised to see the comments from k2qbv embedded in a Tower Talk posting. He seems to have left out key details about the First Call - Will-Burt debacle. For many years First Call Communicatio
According to UST catalog, that tower weighs 430 pounds, and nests at 12 feet..... Car flatbed would be perfect. Hire a light duty boom tow truck on each end to lift, or a few strong men. I recently m
C-4XL - Wind load: 9.8 Sq Ft at 23 degrees from boom center. - Weight: 65 Pounds - Turning Radius: 23.8 feet This is for the version with the alum-a-wire 40m elements. I have a paper copy of the manu
UST HDX-572: I used automotive grease on the exposed anchor bolts / double nuts, that was 16 years ago. The base was buried in snow several months each winter. When I took the tower down last May to
Having just been through the tower permitting process in Pima County, Arizona I would offer the following: UST HDX-572: If you need a building permit AND the project needs to be inspected by a licens
I don't think you can go wrong by following the manufacturer's directions. I have several different sets of US Tower documents for the HDX-572 dating back to 1999. Each version calls for the placemen
Didn't see this in the archives, maybe of interest to the TowerTalkians. I was poking around the Internet last night and bumped into the website of the "Applied Technology Council": * http://windspee
Don, I had the same result when looking at my former location in the Colorado high country, at 9,200 feet: "Special Wind Region" Google "Special Wind Region" "There are special regions in which wind-
Gary, I did the same thing for: NY, AZ, CA, TX, and NJ While some of the MRI numbers were the same, the following numbers were different for each address. *ASCE 7-05 Windspeed:* 90 (3-sec peak gust i
Can anyone tell me the distance between the stock rotor shelf and top of the thrust bearing for the US Tower HDX-572. Thanks, GS _______________________________________________ ______________________