Sounds like a big project! I hope you're taking lots of pics, I'd like to
see how it all goes. Might learn something.
Good luck!
Jeff
On Friday, October 14, 2016, StellarCAT <rxdesign@ssvecnet.com> wrote:
> Indeed you are correct ... however space is the limitation. The 60’ piece
> was assembled with the top nearest the crane and going away from that spot
> – that distance it goes away is probably too far for the crane as it would
> need to boom out too much... with hindsight I might have tried to do it
> differently to accomplish this better but even thinking about that I don’t
> think it would have been possible with 6 antennas all assembled scattered
> around. The space where it would have had to go is where I had to stage the
> 50’ boom 5 el 20 in order to get it pre-assembled on to a 14’ tower section
> – it and the 80/75 dipole are at the top and I had to use that space to get
> it ready (its now done and ready to go).
>
> g.
>
>
>
> *From:* Jeff Draughn <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','n0ost99@gmail.com');>
> *Sent:* Friday, October 14, 2016 9:05 AM
> *To:* StellarCAT <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','rxdesign@ssvecnet.com');>
> *Cc:* tower <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','towertalk@contesting.com');>
> *Subject:* Re: [TowerTalk] Legs of a 60' piece of tower being dragged
> while being lifted
>
>
> I may be all wet here, especially since I have never done this before, but
> it seems if you position the base of the section you want to lift near the
> tower you want to lift it onto then swing the boom of the crane to pick up
> the end, as you pick it up if you swing the boom back towards the base of
> the section you're lifting there would be very little dragging involved.
>
> Again without having real life experience at doing this I may be
> completely off-base but just a thought.
>
> Jeff
>
>
> On Friday, October 14, 2016, StellarCAT <rxdesign@ssvecnet.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','rxdesign@ssvecnet.com');>> wrote:
>
>> So Fred pointed this out ... I hadn’t considered it up until then... is
>> it a problem to just allow the legs drag in the dirt while the 60’ piece
>> with rotating ring attached (~850#) is lifted? Is there ANY chance the legs
>> will deform making it impossible to mate it to the tower? I don’t have
>> access to an end loader or any other piece of heavy eqmt ... I thought, and
>> this might sound silly, a dolly ... those cheap(er) ones – seem to be rated
>> at 600# ... if I could get enough guys to lift the end and put that under
>> the end – then we could pull it along as the crane goes up.... although the
>> ground is really rough so that is doubtful... it would probably get stuck
>> and the legs drop off which would be far worse than just having them drag
>> on the ground ... experiences anyone?
>>
>> Gary
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