Bucket trucks are also rentable. The guy who brought a crane to put up my
tower will rent one to me if I want it. Given how reasonable his crane
services were, it should be affordable.
A colleague of mine back in Minnesota rented buckets (not necessarily
trucks -- stand alone buckets as well) for rates he found affordable.
I'd check it out before I bothered to purchase one.
Larry WO7R
On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 7:23 PM, Jack Taylor <jack@n7oo.com> wrote:
> One possibility to explore is to obtain a used bucket truck. Awhile back
> I noticed one on Craigs list that had a 55 foot
> lift.
>
> Jack - n7oo
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Richard (Rick) Karlquist
> Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2014 7:11 PM
> To: Howard Rosen ; towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Hazer type elevator for non guyed 60foot towers?
>
>
> On 4/13/2014 2:46 PM, Howard Rosen wrote:
>
>> see Hazer's can only work on guyed non tapered towers ,so is there any
>> other combination of "non-guyed" towers and magical assemblies that can
>> bring the antenna /rotor down to ground in its original horizontal
>> position
>>
>> 73 Howard VE2AED
>>
>
> Hazer used to make a tracked version called the
> Voyager. I don't see why it wouldn't work
> on a tapered tower, assuming you could fabricate
> the correct mounting brackets for the tracks.
>
> I have also tried to brainstorm a "free space" hazer (FSH)
> that would not attach to the tower at all but simply
> be pulled up in "free space" at a slight angle from
> the tower by cables attached to the top of the FSH
> so it would hang down. A second cable would go through
> a pulley mounted up on the tower such that it would pull
> the bottom of the FSH horizontally into a receiver
> mounted on the tower to immobilize it. A redundant
> "safety cable" could be used to prevent accidents in
> case the main lifting cable/winch failed. Has anyone
> else experimented with this idea?
>
> Rick N6RK
>
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