> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pat Chiles [mailto:chilesp@intrepid.net]
> Sent: Friday, September 11, 1998 9:40 PM
> To: kinderh@cadvision.com
> Subject: New Tower
>
>
> Steve,
>
> I saw your post on Tower Talk about your new tower. I am thinking about
> buying the 72 foot model and was hoping you might answer a few questions
> for me.
>
> I understand that US Towers ship their towers in enclosed truck and I am
> wondering what method you used to get the tower off the truck when it
> arrived? I know the driver does not want to waste a lot of time.
My tower came out of CA on Conway Western transport to Vacouver Canada and
from there was transferred to another trucking company which shipped it here
to Calgary. In my case the tower WAS shipped in a VAN...I think it always
will be...in fact it came with a lot of other junk as well. What I did was
contact the local trucking Co. which was making the delivery and instructed
them to TAKE THE TOWER TO THEIR TRUCK TERMINAL. At the trucking yard they
have a battalion of fork-lifts which can easily removed the tower...of
coarse, I WAS THERE TO INSPECT EVERYTHING BEFORE it was offloaded. They
offered to leave the tower in the yard for a few days, until I was ready to
install it. Since I used a large 50 ton crane for my installation, I
coordinated the pick-up of the tower by a small flat bed trailer (I think
even a boat trailer would work). The truck yard loaded the trailer with
their fork-lifts. At the house the crane and tower all arrived together and
the crane just picked the tower off the trailer.
> Secondly, I was wondering if the assembly they sell for cranking the
> tower up to a verticle position is strong enough to accomodate a
> mast(21 ft
> and about 140lbs) installed in the tower before making it verticle?
I had no problem doing just this. I have heard some question this, but I
felt no concern using the HEAVY DUTY raising fixture. I installed the rotor
(which is safest to do on the ground anyway since you need to crank out the
tower to gain access to the rotor plate..I wouldn't want to do that
vertical, blocked or not) and I installed the 20' reinforced mast as well as
a portion of my XM-240 ( the rest of the element extensions were added while
standing on my roof!) While raising the tower with the winch just keep
everybody out of the way...it takes a lot of time cranking.
> Also, what method did you use to attached the crane cable to your tower?
The crane operators have lots of good stuff....we used just two nylon
slings. What ever attachment points you use depend on how you're carring
it.. ie. vert or horizontal...I guess most crane ops are good at knowing
where to tie onto.
BTW, I was worried about dropping a 2440 lb tower through my house, but the
crane operator reminded me that if they made a habit of doing that, they
wouldn't be in business very long!!!
Good luck Pat. 73 de Steve VE6WZ, Calgary.
> Thank you,
>
> Pat, K8PC
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