Jeff,
It will depend on the size of the crane as to how close it has to be to the
lift point and the tower base you are going to put it on.
Our 100'er had to be close to the tower base to pick the 70' of rohn 45.
On Friday, October 14, 2016 10:20 AM, mike stokes <mike9v@gmail.com> wrote:
How about strapping a 2 wheeler like move refridgerators with ?
Just a thought.
Mike
KK9V
On Fri, Oct 14, 2016, 11:06 AM TexasRF--- via TowerTalk <
towertalk@contesting.com> wrote:
> Gary, you might consider lashing a 4ft X 8ft sheet of plywood to the bottom
> tower section to protect the end of the tower while dragging it across the
> ground. Probably should be 3/4" thick to survive. Even a 2ft X 4ft might
> do the job.
>
> Or, strap a couple of 4" X 4" X 8ft posts to the tower and let the ends of
> the posts take the abuse. Kind of like what you have seen in old Western
> movies showing how Indians moved stuff around on two poles strapped to
> their
> horse.
>
> If you don't do something to protect the tower you can expect some of the
> galvanizing to be scrapped off. I have seen that happen just skidding
> sections around on a smooth concrete floor. With upwards of 400 pounds of
> weight
> on the lower end it is a given.
>
> I have not done any of these things so consider this as a concept only. As
> they say, your mileage may vary!
>
> 73,
> Gerald K5GW
>
>
>
>
>
> In a message dated 10/14/2016 8:57:04 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
> rxdesign@ssvecnet.com writes:
>
> 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
> Sent: Friday, October 14, 2016 9:05 AM
> To: StellarCAT
> Cc: tower
> 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> 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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