> Wonder how they would do on a Rohn tower?
> See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2BeFK6nqMA&feature=share
Ha ha. Pretty interesting and quite a system. The thing that stood out to
me was that there was NO ONE on the towers to receive the new sections.
Ordinarily you'd have a person or two to line up the bolt holes and then throw
a couple in to secure it. The way they do it, the crew has to climb to the
junction and then bolt it down while the upper thousands of pounds of tower is
just sitting there. They obviously don't do this when there's any wind.
I've done a couple of helicopter jobs myself and they're pretty
interesting. First you need some sort of grounding stick to discharge the large
static charge that's built up by all of that wind rushing by it. Once it's safe
to grab, then you just pull/push the tower to where you want it. Since the
chopper and load are in equilibrium, it only takes about 10 pounds of pressure
to move it where you want. Pretty straightforward but WAY exciting!
Cheers,Steve K7LXCTOWER TECH -Professional tower services for commercial
and amateurCell: 206-890-4188
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