I did the same thing in my township. No permit required.
You don't even need a permit to build a deck here.
Mike - KI8R
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> On May 14, 2016, at 6:50 PM, Chester Alderman <aldermant@windstream.net>
> wrote:
>
> Nope!! In rural south Georgia they told me I did not need a permit to put a
> tower on my 15 acre property! I asked for a written statement of that fact
> and got it gratis!
>
> Tom - W4BQF
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Hans
> Hammarquist via TowerTalk
> Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2016 4:40 PM
> To: towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: [TowerTalk] Fwd: Lightning Damage, Crane used to replace Orion
> Positioner
>
> Thank L-d I live in a rural town that hasn't figure out how to suck money
> from a radio ham (yet). My building permit to get the tower cost me $15
> everything included. Jealous?
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: W5GN <w5gn@mxg.com>
> To: 'towertalk' <towertalk@contesting.com>
> Sent: Sat, May 14, 2016 12:20 pm
> Subject: [TowerTalk] Lightning Damage, Crane used to replace Orion Positioner
>
> About two weeks ago, we had an extremely close lightning strike that surged
> our AC voltage to about 6000V (estimate based on ¼ inch
>
> between the two arc burns on the shell of the plastic AC plug to the chassis
> screw on the Orion 2800 Control Box), even though
>
> all circuits have commercial surge protectors that were installed when the
> office/radio wing was built in 1984.
>
> But I did NOT have a UPS between the wall and the radio equipment; none of
> the computer equipment in the other corner that is
>
> behind a UPS was not touched by this surge.
>
>
>
> The surge took out that Orion 2800 rotor control box, and the motor windings
> in the positioner was now an open circuit.
>
>
>
> The surge also took out the Astron 30 Amp supply, and its 12V output surge
> took out the transmit side of the ICOM 756PROII.
>
>
>
> I sent it to Icom repair in St. Joseph, MI, on a Tuesday, and they had
> finished the repairs and were ready to ship on Tuesday
>
> when I called them on this past Monday, and it arrived yesterday, Friday.
> $192 - $140 Service, $23 for parts.
>
> They replaced the defective IC151 and D131 in RF unit, and the CI-V remote
> port that I didn’t know was burned,
>
> and replaced Q5771 Q25, D22, D23, clock battery BT3501 and, unrelated to the
> surge damage, replaced R1 on the phone
>
> board which had failed a while back and caused loss of one audio channel.
>
>
>
> That 12V surge also took out the 20 meter position of the Array Solutions Six
> Pack, and the MicroKeyer II.
>
>
>
> The UST HDBX-72 tower is normally nearly retracted, with the top of the tower
> at 32 feet, with the Cal AV 2-el Forty there,
>
> and the OB16-3 18 feet higher. My first tower climber volunteer observed the
> first problem. The tower needed
>
> to be raised about 10 feet to get the positioner clear of the next lower
> tower section so it could be removed.
>
> But the electrical control has not worked for some time, and since I had not
> intended to raise the tower,
>
> and since I added the complexity of the (useless IMO) Remote Control, we gave
> up on fixing that problem,
>
> and instead used a screw driver as a lever and rotated the drive shaft to
> raise the tower the 10 feet,
>
> alternating two of us for about 20 minutes.
>
>
>
> My professional climber could have replaced the Positioner in the tower in
> harness on the tower, but since
>
> the LMR400ULTRAFLEX was now 13 years old, I elected to bring a crane so they
> could be replaced, and because
>
> it’s a lot easier on the climber!
>
>
>
> In 2003, we had a 160 ton crane (pics at www.mxg.com <http://www.mxg.com> ,
> lower left) because we had the old EzWAY Tower further back that
>
> had to be removed first; that day’s crane cost was $700.
>
>
>
> When I called Davis Crane, I found that a city permit to close the street
> would be required, two Dallas (off-duty)
>
> policeman that we would pay $240 each for were required, that the crane could
> not be here on Friday, our garbage pickup day,
>
> per city rules, and because our normal residential street once had a bus
> line, it was classified somehow higher as
>
> needing to be clear by 3:30 for “rush hour”. He also said the crane would
> leave around 8am, about a half hour away,
>
> and it would take an hour to setup, and also it would take nearly an hour to
> shut down and be gone by 3:30.
>
> And I had to deliver 42 “Notice of Street Closure” to the folks who lived on
> the two streets and backed up to the
>
> alley exit that would be closed that day, record their addresses and deliver
> back to Davis to get the permit.
>
>
>
>
>
> The city had put out the Detour Signs on Wednesday, by the curb.
>
>
>
> I had ordered 2x LMR400UF, Rotor, and RG8X Pulse cables in 200 foot lengths
> from Joel, at RFConnection.
>
> When the LMR400UF arrived, I decided to confirm its length by weighing on the
> shipping scale,
>
> and found the weight of the LMR400UF was .068 Pounds/Foot, so 200 feet should
> be 13.6 pounds,
>
> but the scale displayed only 7.7, so there must be only 100 feet of coax.
> Only after wasting Joel’s time,
>
> for him to confirm the actual shipping weight was 38 pounds, did I apologize
> for the egg on
>
> my face, as my scale was displaying KiloGrams, not pounds. Wednesday
> afternoon we removed the old cables
>
> from the shack to the base of the tower, made up the new cables, and ran them
> from the shack also to
>
> the base of the tower.
>
>
>
> Thursday the crane and officer arrived about the same time, a little before
> 9, and the officer pulled the
>
> detour signs to block both lanes, and then sat in his surburban pretty much
> the rest of the day.
>
> The crane arrived, and we then waited nearly an hour while they called back
> to get the man basket that had been
>
> ordered but not put on the order form. Then we waited another 45 minutes for
> their mechanic to arrive to
>
> find the short in the winch’s terminal block that was water-exposed and
> intermittent.
>
>
>
> Work proceeded smoothly for the coax removal for the OB16-3 which is now at
> 60 feet on the 24 foot mast and
>
> then the Cal-AV 2el 40 is at 42 feet.
>
> Work was somewhat slower when it came to raising the mast so the positioner
> could be slipped out;
>
> previously, you could get two winches, so one can hold the basket while the
> second is used to
>
> raise mast those couple of inches needed, but OSHA rules now prohibit two
> winches, so the crane had to
>
> swap the basket with a strap to lift, while the climber clipped in, and then
> go back and get the basket,
>
> several times. And similarly, since both antenna’s feed point is some
> distance from the mast, and
>
> with those 16 elements on top, only about 2 feet apart, the crane operator
> took lots of time to reposition
>
> out and then back in without taking off elements to move along the boom with
> the coax.
>
>
>
> Around 1pm, a city of Dallas inspector showed up and halted work because the
> permit required two policeman,
>
> which I had expected and was on the order also, but only one had been
> ordered, apparently, by Davis Crane,
>
> maybe, but this was a Keystone Cop discussion between the Davis guy, the cop,
> and the (REALLY NASTY) inspector,
>
> who finally relented, saying, well I’m not stopping your work now, got in his
> vehicle and drove away.
>
> Earlier he had told me that the reason the policemen were there was NOT for
> traffic control, the signs did that.
>
> They were there in case the crane tipped over so they could call for help!.
>
>
>
> So both the cop and the Davis guy were worried about him coming back and
> giving us grief over that 3:30 limit,
>
> and there can be serious fines involved, so my tower guy got 5 minute
> warnings for the last half hour,
>
> and connected the last critical wire at 3:32. The crane shutdown took only
> 10 minutes, and he moved the crane
>
> so it was now parked and only blocking one lane, and then sat there 45
> minutes, waiting for the electrican to
>
> return to now repair the crane storage mechanism – the crane was completely
> collapsed, but that whole unit
>
> was stuck about 3 feet above it’s cradle.
>
>
>
> So that lost time really hurt; it still took three more hours on Friday for
> him to climb and strap in and
>
> finish building and sealing the Bud box with the terminal block for the
> positioner, tie wrapping and taping
>
> the cable bundles, and finishing those details.
>
>
>
> I had purchased the new Orion 2800 positioner only, because last year, for
> the first time, I actually
>
> won something of value at the Contest Dinner, when I got a Green Heron
> controller. When we went to
>
> setup that box, we made some stupid error, but were very pleased when Jeff
> answered his phone and
>
> he walked us thru to correct our error. Just love that knob to point the
> beams.
>
>
>
> The cost of this crane was $2440.
>
>
>
> 73
>
>
>
> Barry, W5GN
>
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