Bryan,
Theonly thing I don't like with your pictures is how you attached thelifting
block to your house. I get nervous each time I see somethingattached to a house
with no apparent enforcements.
Howdid you determined that plankk to have enough strength to lift yourtower?
Hans - N2JFS
-----Original Message-----
From: Bryan Swadener <bswadener@yahoo.com>
To: towertalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Sun, Dec 22, 2013 10:06 pm
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Boom-to-Mast Tilt fixture
Alan,
I'm able to tilt my US Tower TX-472 tower over with my Force12 C-4XL on it, in
one of two ways
w/o a tilt fixture...
The yagi boom is 30' long. With the use of a 12' step ladder, I'm /just/ able
to reach the u-bolts
on the boom-mast clamp, loosen them, and turn & tilt the yagi as needed. See
photos at
http://www.tinyurl.com/wa7prc-tower.
The yagi boom is in five equal-length sections. With the tower tilted over,
I'm
able to access
the hardware to remove/install sections of boom + element(s) as needed and
continue to
lower the tower using this method, I highly recommend finding some way of
preventing the
mast from rotating. My rotator has a brake, or I can use a section of angle
stock drilled
to accept u-bolts that temporarily connect the mast to one rail of the tower. I
used the
latter when I needed to work on the HDR300 rotator w/ my feet on the ground.
The above is what you do when you don't have a tilt-plate. Maybe it's not so
purty but,
they work for me.
vy 73,
Bryan WA7PRC
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