> It might be the south... no kidding.. maybe it's the red dirt and heat and
humidity leads to a more laissez faire attitude about doing "non-standard"
things.
Could be. I'm in the south-western part of Virginia. I was really
surprised what the sign company was willing to do with their pole crane, all
for $75/hour, without having me sign any waivers, etc., all on my word that
I would send them a check when they sent me a bill.
Here is part of what we did:
http://www.klient.com/tower/LiftingAntennas.jpg
It is a 100' pole crane from the sign company lifting the top 20' of 25G,
the rotator, 1/4"-wall chromolly mast, 4-element SteppIR, OB2-40, cables and
top guys attached, my tool bag, etc. The crane was strapped to the OB2-40's
boom at the plate, putting an awful lot of trust in its boom-to-mast plate
as it had to support the weight of everything below it.
The concrete company made me sign a waiver before the truck would drive
accross my yard. But, the sign company didn't see to be concerned.
Tom, NI1N
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Lux" <jimlux@earthlink.net>
To: "Tom Rauch" <w8ji@contesting.com>; <keith@dutson.net>;
<towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 11:31 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] w2irt's antenna dilemma
> It might be the south... no kidding.. maybe it's the red dirt and heat and
> humidity leads to a more laissez faire attitude about doing "non-standard"
> things. A friend was commenting that when a crew came out to replace the
> pole transformer behind his house (with a brand new 50 kVA unit... clearly
> it's time for him to invest in a big linear: why let that capacity go to
> waste) they were from Alabama, and we're in Los Angeles.
>
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