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[TowerTalk] Ginpole for 20 foot sections

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Subject: [TowerTalk] Ginpole for 20 foot sections
From: plplants@sgi.net (Paul Plants)
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 17:30:35 -0400
> Another thought. A gin pole hefty enough to handle that kind of load on a
20
> foot section would  itself be quite unwieldy to raise after each new
section
> is put in place.
>
> Frank
> W2FCA


We have a ginpole that is about 30 feet long and is about 4" in diameter. We
lift into place with a Rohn 25 ginpole. Seems funny using a ginpole to lift
a ginpole in to place. We raised a tower a few years ago that was 4 feet on
a side, thats what we built the larger ginpole for.
Paul
N3WMV


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