[TowerTalk] Beam Stuck*&%^*#@*

Tom Osborne w7why@mail.coos.or.us
Wed, 09 Sep 1998 21:56:24 -0700


K7LXC@aol.com wrote:

>Then the tower is gently lowered until the weight is on the blocking >materials. Then you have the weight on the tower sections and not the >cables (mostly) plus in case of a cable failure, 

Hi Steve.
If the tower is lowered, doesn't that loosen the guylines??  Don't say
you climb an unguyed crank-up.  When I lower mine just a little, the
guys get awfully slack.  73
Tom W7WHY

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