Interesting that you had problems with Tashjian ... the 5 guys here in
Tucson
have all bought his towers after getting nowhere with US Towers.
Must have caught them on a bad/good day !!
73, Dick, W1KSZ
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Steve Jones <n6sj@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Wayne-
>
> I have been happy with US Tower's HDX-589. Their structural engineer was
> very helpful on the phone, answering the many questions I had regarding
> antenna loading, foundation work, maintenance, etc. It has a manual
> tilt-over winch which is tedious to raise & lower, but I don't tilt it over
> that often. I contacted Karl Tashjian at Tashjian Towers, but he wasn't
> very responsive or helpful.
>
> Regarding trees, I had to remove several large fir trees to install my
> tower. That was covered in my county permit. The permit required that I
> complete an environmental check list which addressed the types of
> endangered
> critters that might live in the trees, the effects on rain runoff with the
> trees removed, effects on the health of the forest, etc. If they didn't
> like the results, they might have asked for a full EIR report, but the
> impacts were all "less than significant" or "less than significant with
> mitigations". And San Mateo County, CA is a very environmentally conscious
> area! So you still might think about removing a few critical trees, it's
> just a lot of paperwork.
>
> Make sure there's no arrowheads laying around before the archeologist
> arrives!
>
> 73,
> Steve
> N6SJ
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of
> Wayne
> Willenberg
> Sent: Friday, March 29, 2013 8:09 AM
> To: towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: [TowerTalk] Need Tips on Selecting A Crank-up Tower
>
> For several years I have been dreaming of a 90' tower next to my home
> located near the coast in South Carolina. But, I could never find a
> practical way around my county's requirement that any tower must meet a
> 130MPH 3-sec gust. A further problem is I live on a 5 acre heavily wooded
> lot. The county requires a permit to cut down a single tree. That made it
> impossible to get a crane into my backyard to erect the tower. If it
> weren't for that problem, I would have gone with something like a Big
> Bertha
> that I understand can meet this wind loading requirement. However, there
> is
> a trail from the road to near the tower site that is wide enough to allow a
> Bob Cat and a back-hoe or the like to get to the site.
>
>
> Fortunately, I subscribe to this reflector because a couple of other hams
> on
> the reflector suggested a crank-up tower. They suggested I could try to
> sell the county on the fact that a fully retracted tower can meet the
> 130MPH
> requirement.
>
>
> Yesterday, I met with all 5 members of the county planning department and
> presented this "nested" approach. I circulated a photo of the nested tower
> (I didn't pass around a photo of the tower fully extended) and further
> explained how I might be helpful for communication in an emergency
> condition. Something won them over and now I am jumping through all the
> other hoops they have, like an archaeological survey!
>
>
> I need some tips on selecting a motorized crank-up tower that can hinge
> near
> the base to allow the tower to be horizontal. I would like to have an
> electric motor to also control the hinging function. (I don't mean to
> spark
> a debate over which manufacturer makes the best tower.) I am so new to
> this
> that *any *constructive suggestions will be helpful. I am at a point where
> I know so little about these towers I don't know how to ask intelligent
> questions. If you own a tower like I am describing, where have you had
> problems? Does it go up and down as smoothly and effortlessly as
> it seems? Even suggestions like the diameter and material of the cable
> that pulls the antenna up would be helpful. How much maintenance am I
> getting into?
>
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
>
> 73, Wayne KK6BT
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