Thats why I don't like crankups. I almost bought a US Tower 89footer, glad I
didn't.
After I read on here the large number of cable breaks people have had that
did it for me.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack" <videorov@direcway.com>
To: <K7LXC@aol.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 11:21 AM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Crank-up won't crank
> Thats why I don't like crankups. I almost bought a US Tower 89footer, glad
I
> didn't.
> After I read on here the large number of cable breaks people have had that
> did it for me.
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <K7LXC@aol.com>
> To: <davidgreer73@yahoo.com>; <towertalk@contesting.com>
> Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 10:41 AM
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Crank-up won't crank
>
>
> > In a message dated 11/14/03 6:19:37 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> > davidgreer73@yahoo.com writes:
> >
> > K7LXC@aol.com wrote:
> > In a message dated 11/14/03 9:50:28 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> > davidgreer73@yahoo.com writes:
> >
> > > I went outside Wednesday evening to crank down my new
> > > U.S. Tower 55 ft. tower because of the high winds. It
> > > wouldn't crank down or up. Not an inch. I had
> > > previously lowered and raised it on several occasions
> > > without incident.
> >
> > Does the motor turn? Can you turn the big belt-driven pulley by hand?
> > Will it turn by hand if you take the the belt off?
> >
> > > No motor drive here. Just the standard manual winch.
> >
> > Okay - so no positive pull-down. Your tower is bound up somewhere.
The
> > prognosis for getting it lowered is problematic and dangerous. The only
> thing I
> > can recommend is to get a boomtruck in there and tie some ropes to the
top
> so
> > you can pull them to try to get the tower lowered. Sounds like it might
be
> > stuck there permanently.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Steve K7LXC
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