Pictures speak a 1000 words

Bill Hider n3rr@erols.com
Tue, 07 Jan 1997 23:21:04 -0800


Lee Buller wrote:
> 
> OK...I admit it...I can't seem to understand all the procedures to install
> large beams ontop of towers.  I need a picture.  Has anyone done this?
> Heck, I am old plowboy from Kansas and if you can't use a logchain and a
> hook, then I need a picture.
> 
> The way I have done this before is to place a 4 X 4 through the tower at the
> top and run two tramlines to the front yard.  Slid the whole damn thin up
> there using muscle power.  No pullies, no fancy carabiners, no fancy webbing.
> 
> But, this old plowboy isn't dumb.  If there is a easier way of doing this, I
> would like to know...but I needs some pictures.  Anyone got any?  Or an
> exhaustive essay on the subject (ala Heathkit)?
> 
> Thanks for the bandwidth
> 
> Lee Buller
> k0wa@southwind.net
> 
> "Pass me that clevis...and hook it to the tractor...we're raising this pig"
> 
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I have VHS video of the installation of the following:

1.  80 M dipole (Force 12 EF-180C) @ 149 ft using commercial gin pole by
installation crew from United States Tower Services, LTD.

2.  5 ele 20M beam (205CA) @ 100 ft on ring rotor using steel wire-rope
tram with rolling block and tackle pulled by lawn 1tractor.

3.  2 ele 40 M beam (40-2CD) @ 67 ft on ring rotor using steel wire-rope
tram with rolling block and tackle pulled by lawn tractor.

If anyone is interested in these videos, let me know.  I will copy and
ship to you for cost recovery.

Bill, N3RR

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