The cheeper hand crankup winches quickly start to die if you use them to
often (eat the cheep gears up) I lost 3 of them in 18 years on my small
hy-gain HG-37SS all in for the same reason and bigger ones lastest just a
little longer was all. This time I brought a wormgear oilbath type and had a
adaptor machine to replace the hand crank and now use my Holeshooter I/2
Inch drill to run it up and down. It works like a charm. You get what you
pay for. Because the drill turns so slow you can feel a bind right now that
brings me to my main piont. Any tower that was not designed at the factory
for a motorized winch and remote control and one install a motorized winch
is asking for whole lot of trouble. And the HG-70HD never had a motorized
winch for a option. Information right out of the 1987-88 Catalog. At best
you could safely use my setup because they both are turning so SLOWWWWWWWW
leaveing you with total contol over it going up and down. I'm just looking
at it as a safety issue. 73's Gene K2QWD
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dale L Martin" <kg5u@hal-pc.org>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2001 10:17 PM
Subject: RE: [TowerTalk] HG-70HD
>
>
> While I don't have a crankup tower, I belong to a club which had a W-51.
>
> After a time, it was too much trouble to lower the tower after any
> on-the-air ops at the club station.
>
> One night, a thunderstorm with a little wind microburst caused the tower
> midsection to buckle bringing down the 2m vertical, 6-element 10m beam and
> KT34A. We were very fortunate that the tower section failed on the side
> that it did. Had it gone in either of two other directions, building
damage
> would have been sustained. As it was, the vertical and mast were driven a
> couple of feet into an open grassy area.
>
> Had we had a motorized winch on the tower, I'm certain the operator(s)
would
> have taken the time and effort to lower it prior to leaving the club
> station. As it was, it was left up.
>
> It seems to me that if a tower cannot be cranked up and down at least on a
> few times on a weekly basis, then maybe one should consider another tower
> manufacturer.
>
> 73,
> dale, kg5u
>
> >
> > The comment about not raising and lowering too often hits me. I
> > had always
> > thought that the crank-uo (and tiltover) tower was such so that
> > it could be
> > done at will. I even read that one person cranked up at dusk and
> > down when
> > finished!
> >
> > To me why spend all that extra money and be not able to use the feature?
> >
> > Chris opr Ve7HCB
> >
> > At 12:38 PM 2001-11-22 -0500, K2we@aol.com wrote:
> >
>
> > >My LM-470D has been up for over 25 years. The secret is to limit
> > the amount
> > >of raising & lowering. It puts tremendous force on the cables.
>
>
>
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