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1. [TowerTalk] HDBX-48 Tilt Up (score: 1): Author: "Gary \"Joe\" Mayfield" <gary_mayfield@hotmail.com>; Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 22:10:19 -0500; Any hints on tilting up a Rohn HDBX-48? I have a Traffie Hex beam just above the top ( another 12 pounds). My machinist next door neighbor said we could do it with a Bobcat, but we failed. We kept it; /archives//html/Towertalk/2011-10/msg00142.html (7,709 bytes)
2. Re: [TowerTalk] HDBX-48 Tilt Up (score: 1): Author: Adam Shirley WJ4X <wj4x@amsat.org>; Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 23:38:45 -0400; You need to lift up, not pull back. a bobcat doesn't go high enough to create enough angle to lift the tower. Come up with some sort of method to get the hoist cable off the ground. 73! -Adam WJ4X __; /archives//html/Towertalk/2011-10/msg00143.html (8,532 bytes)
3. Re: [TowerTalk] HDBX-48 Tilt Up (score: 1): Author: Jim Lux <jimlux@earthlink.net>; Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:50:32 -0700; I'm having trouble understanding the rigging here.. Are you pulling the tower up with the Bobcat? How do you not have room for a falling derrick? It doesn't need to be all that huge to get the angles; /archives//html/Towertalk/2011-10/msg00144.html (7,539 bytes)
4. [TowerTalk] HDBX-48 Tilt Up (score: 1): Author: "Wilson Lamb" <infomet@embarqmail.com>; Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 08:42:42 -0400; Can you use a lift point in a tree or on your roof? As long as you can get high enough to get started off the ground, you should be OK. A few people and a ladder can likely push it up a ways, making; /archives//html/Towertalk/2011-10/msg00148.html (7,407 bytes)
5. Re: [TowerTalk] HDBX-48 Tilt Up (score: 1): Author: K7LXC@aol.com; Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:12:57 -0400 (EDT); above the top ( another 12 pounds). My machinist next door neighbor said we could do it with a Bobcat, but we failed. We kept it under control, no one got hurt and there was no damage to the tower or; /archives//html/Towertalk/2011-10/msg00150.html (8,710 bytes)
6. Re: [TowerTalk] HDBX-48 Tilt Up (score: 1): Author: K8RI on TT <k8ri-on-towertalk@tm.net>; Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:36:27 -0400; 5 of us put up a 50 foot steel tower with the rotator and mast using two extension ladder sections to walk it up. That was about the limit for safety, but it would have been notably heavier than the; /archives//html/Towertalk/2011-10/msg00158.html (8,316 bytes)
7. Re: [TowerTalk] HDBX-48 Tilt Up (score: 1): Author: "AA6DX - Mark" <aa6dx@suddenlink.net>; Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:22:36 -0700; If you have a truck with a lumber rack available, or like that, get it near to the tower to where the "crew" can lift it the tower high enough to back the truck under it. Then, wrangle the tower so t; /archives//html/Towertalk/2011-10/msg00173.html (9,724 bytes)
8. Re: [TowerTalk] HDBX-48 Tilt Up (score: 1): Author: "Gary \"Joe\" Mayfield" <gary_mayfield@hotmail.com>; Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 20:49:59 -0500; Yes, it is the standard tilt base that Rohn sells. There is no tree to work with and the roof line is only about 12-15 feet up. Some suggested pushing it most of the way up with a Lull as seen here:; /archives//html/Towertalk/2011-10/msg00174.html (8,822 bytes)
9. Re: [TowerTalk] HDBX-48 Tilt Up (score: 1): Author: n8de@thepoint.net; Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 23:03:23 -0400; Use the falling derrick method and pull it up with a rope over the falling derrick ... attached to something able to do the pulling. I'm using that method to pull up my 60' Universal Tower (self-supp; /archives//html/Towertalk/2011-10/msg00175.html (10,411 bytes)

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