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Re: [TowerTalk] Triex WT51

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Triex WT51
From: "Gene Fuller" <w2lu@rochester.rr.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 16:13:58 -0400
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And perhaps have the boom truck/crane follow you home, unload it and place it at or near it's new home.
Gene / W2LU

----- Original Message ----- From: <K7LXC@aol.com>
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Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2013 2:55 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Triex WT51



 Anyway, my problem is how to lower it. I'd put a ladder up  to the top
to remove the antenna/rotator but how to lower the actual tower over is the
question. Didn't see anything I could attach a block and tackle to. I see
from the current site, the tower weighs 360 pounds. Now I am a member of the
local DX club, but like most clubs today, it is full of old men and couple
of us  slowly aging? woman.

 So I'm asking, how many folks do you  think I would need to walk the
tower over? Or any other ideas such as letting it fall onto something soft and
crush able like a bunch of cardboard boxes?  Ideas?

   Well, once you get it horizontal you still have to  figure out how to
get it to the front of the house and then onto a truck or trailer. My advice
is to get a crane or boom-truck involved. It can handle  everything you
need to do; e.g. get a man-basket (or woman-basket in this case) to take the
antenna off. Then the crane can pick the  tower up and put it on the
truck/trailer.

Cheers & GL,
Steve    K7LXC
TOWER TECH
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