Hi Tom,
If you don't put to much heavy stuff on the tower before you walk it up it
should be OK. Just for your comparison, I have an 85 feet aluminum tower and
the total weight of the tower, empty is 300 lb. It's tapered so the heavier
section are at the bottom. No, I didn't walk this tower up but I easily carried
around the top 40 feet during the assembly of the tower and could, probably
have raised the by myself as a 40 foot tower, had I done that.
Good luck with your installation and best 73 de,
Hans - N2JFS
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Cox <tomcox@iquest.net>
To: TowerTalk <TowerTalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Wed, Mar 4, 2015 10:53 pm
Subject: [TowerTalk] Aluminum towers -- can you really "walk one up"?
I keep seeing ads for self-supporting aluminum
towers that are so light that
one person can "walk
up" a 40-footer with a hinged base. Of course,
walking
one DOWN might be more interesting, unless
one has ropes, blocks, and a team.
Can walking one
up really be done, even with light, VHF-UHF
verticals and/or
TV antennas? It just seems a
tower light enough to walk up can't be strong
enough to STAY up.
I can't afford a motorized tilt-over or
telescoping
crank-up, unless it's used, and even
then, it's unlikely, on my retirement
income. All
I want to tackle is 30 to 40 feet. Should I forget
about a tower
altogether, or buy a section of Rohn
25 a month, or... what?
73,
Tom,
KT9OM,
NW Middle
TN
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