Howdy, TowerTalkians -- Tnx for your inputs but I think I need to describe what I want to do in more detail. There is a heavy 20' mast sticking out of the top of a pointy top 45G. What I want to know
Steve, I've got 4 sections of Rohn 45 up (another 3 to go) I also have a 15 foot 2" mast that will eventually go up. I'll try to fit it up inside the tower tomorrow and report back. I don't think it
I've got 4 sections of Rohn 45 up (another 3 to go) I also have a 15 foot 2" mast that will eventually go up. I'll try to fit it up inside the tower tomorrow and report back. I don't think it will go
Tnx for your inputs but I think I need to describe what I want to do in more detail. There is a heavy 20' mast sticking out of the top of a pointy top 45G. What I want to know is if by lowering the m
Don, K4ZA rigged a very elegant device using a basketball hoop to manage a tall mast while raising it with a gin pole and dropping it down through a thrust bearing. Don't have any pix here but maybe
I've heard people talk about cutting out braces on the tower. I say DON'T DO IT. You shouldn't cut the tower because that goes through the galvanizing and exposes the steel and could potentially be a
You use a ring at the top of the gin pole. when you raise the mast that ring keeps the mast from turning over when at the top of the lift. A ring just above the thrust bearing also aids the operation
Hi, Steve, I'm the pres of a club that does several take downs every year for widows of SK's. Disassembly is evidently the inverse of assembly, but the fellow who put it together isn't around sometim
No, I tried that on the ground to see if it was a viable way to put a mast into a tower. if you don't have a heavy enough and long enough gin pole to pull it out the top just lower it down inside to
The guys that put up my tower up back in 2001 had to put in a 21 foot piece of mast in the top of the 120 foot tower. They first pulled up an old piece of Rohn 25 and lashed it to the very top of the
When I put up my 45G I had hoped to insert a 20 foot 2 inch 95 lb mast from below through the tower sections but I found there was no way to get it in without bending the mast (neither useful or like