>It makes no sense at all to use grips and clamps. Grips replace clamps in
>the functionality they perform. Go to my Website www.erols.com/n3rr and
>click on Guying Subsystem to see what these grips look like. They are
>called ROHN Big Grips (for the steel wire) and PLP Glass Grips (for the
>fiberglass wire).
Ah... thanks for the pointer. This looks great.
>I cannot visualize how 25 people (or any number of people) will be able to
>lift a 80-90 ft structure, unless there
>is a nearby (say within 25-30 feet or so) a 100 foot building from which
>the
>25 people are holding heavy duty pull ropes out windows at each of the four
>stories of the building. Please explain to us how you invision 25 people
>doing this job.
I was thinking that people could be arranged along the length lifting and
then three sets of people could pull on the three different guys to pull it
up. However, I have had enough people on this list tell me that this is a
bad idea that I have decided not to even attempt this. Out of curiosity,
what is the most length of tower that you WOULD feel comfortable raising on
the hinged base?
>A week-and-a-half access??? I know you have not revealed the purpose of
>the
>tower to us, but wow, that's a short period of time to line up all the help
>needed for this project. Do you mean it will be installed and dismantled
>in
>a week and a half?
Sorry, I didn't mean to be secretive. This is a tower that will have lights
at the top that will be used as a beacon at several different art festivals
each year. One of the festivals is held in the blackrock desert where they
have the Leave No Trace policy described earlier.
-Eric
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