Thanks for the post, Mike.
I stand corrected. I've seen that site before. It's a great means of
precisely controlling the movement of the tower without a concern about
a cable snapping but boy, that's a lot of tower hanging off of that worm
gear.
73,
Jon Pearl - W4ABC
www.w4abc.com
On 12/7/2011 5:36 PM, Mike wrote:
> Interesting scheme for a foldover.
>
> http://heightstowers.com/fold_over_kits.htm
>
> 73, Mike NF4L
>
> On 12/7/2011 12:46 PM, Jon Pearl - W4ABC wrote:
>> Hi Joe.
>>
>> While a few of us have removed and totally replaced our up/dn hand winch
>> with an electric but I'm not sure I've ever cataloged anyone replacing
>> their fold over winch. I'm sure that there's one or two out there,
>> though. Joe, WD0M shows how he folds his tower over with an electric
>> drill on his page at http://www.wd0m.com/winchadapter.html
>>
>> I can attest to the fact that this does in-fact work as I've done it
>> myself with a 1/2" Milwaukee hammer drill and socket drive adapter on my
>> TX-455. Folding the tower over is a one hand operation. Getting it
>> back up in the air takes a bit more ooomph to hold onto the drill.
>> Switching to a worm-gear drive would probably make this affair a bit
>> more palatable for the electric drill -
>> http://www.amazon.com/Dutton-Lainson-WG2000-Worm-Gear-Winch/dp/B002YNLUYG
>>
>> I can only imagine that utilizing this method with a TX-472 would be
>> large undertaking when going from horizontal, back up to vertical.
>>
>> In the event that you are interested in something of a more permanent
>> nature there may be an idea or two for you here:
>> http://www.w4abc.com/drive.html
>>
>>
>>
>> 73,
>>
>>
>> Jon Pearl - W4ABC
>> http://www.w4abc.com/
>>
>>
>> On 12/7/2011 10:06 AM, KC2TN wrote:
>>> Has anyone replaced the hand crank on their foldover tower with an electric
>>> version?
>>>
>>> I have a new TX472MDP from US Tower and am thinking of replacing the stock
>>> "Foldover Raising" winch.
>>>
>>> Thanks, Joe KC2TN
>>>
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>
>>> On Dec 7, 2011, at 12:48 AM, Jon Pearl - W4ABC<jonpearl@tampabay.rr.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Mike.
>>>>
>>>> The Fulton K1550 will probably work nicely in your 'tilt' application.
>>>> Some folks have been known to swap out their weather beat and worn K1550
>>>> with the heftier K2550 for hoisting the larger 'plus' sized towers in
>>>> the 'up/down' application:
>>>> http://www.fultonperformance.com/content/products.aspx?lvl=2&parentid=7900&catID=7940&part=0
>>>>
>>>> As to a pulley for the top of your post, a good source for off the shelf
>>>> configurations that might work for you can probably be had from any of
>>>> the boat hoist manufactures such as the 560X depicted on this page:
>>>> http://www.lunmarboatlifts.com/index.cfm?currentpage=2&fuseaction=category.display&category_id=15
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 73,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Jon Pearl - W4ABC
>>>> http://www.w4abc.com/drive.html
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 12/6/2011 10:26 PM, Michael Goins wrote:
>>>>> Have a HG-52-SS here destined to have a two el quad on it soon. When fully
>>>>> nested, it is about 22 feet tall and if I remember correctly, the weight
>>>>> is
>>>>> around 450 pounds (plus rotor and quad).
>>>>>
>>>>> I want to be able to tip it over by removing the top bolts on two legs and
>>>>> both on the remaining one, thus using the remaining two lower front bolts
>>>>> as a pivot (this is the factory recommended base and it solid at 5 feet
>>>>> deep.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a solid power pole I plan to use as the winch pole and it will be
>>>>> located about 6 feet behind the tower. I'm trying to determine the cut-off
>>>>> (out of ground) height I need for the tiltover pole (about 6-10 feet is a
>>>>> guess) and more especially, the rating of a winch/suggested type to handle
>>>>> the lowering of the tower. Also looking for a pully to mount on top of the
>>>>> pole for the winch to ride over going to the tower.
>>>>>
>>>>> At 62, I don't plan to do a lot of climbing any more and I'm trying to set
>>>>> this up so that the quad can be maintained fairly easily. If anyone has
>>>>> done something similar, I sure would like to hear from you off list.
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>
>>>>> Mike, k5wmg
>>>>>
>>>>>
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