[TowerTalk] Telephone Poles
Stan or Patricia Griffiths
w7ni@teleport.com
Wed, 02 Feb 2000 15:24:52 -0800
K7GCO@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 01.02.00 17:12:26 Pacific Standard Time, w7ni@teleport.com
> writes:
>
> <<
> I don't know about you, but I moved around a LOT in my
> younger days while my career was still developing. I think
> my wife and I lived in 17 different houses and apartments
> during a 20 year period. Anyway, the one telephone pole I
> had during that time did not move with me. It was 110 feet
> long and weighed 4500 pounds. I sold it locally. Anyway, I
> easily moved two 100+ foot guyed towers from the East coast
> to the West coast in a moving truck right along with my
> other household goods. So if your career is still
> developing, you might consider what you are going to do
> about your firmly planted and very heavy telephone pole
> (which will not fit nicely into a moving van) at your next
> move.
>
> Stan w7ni@teleport.com
>
> Stan, the idea was to get used ones or cheap ones whether you move around or
> not. I suggested adding 4 slopers to it for a dual purpose of other antennas
> and additional safety if needed in a big storm. I have an idea of getting
> used pipe casings for a sleeve in the ground and up the pole for a ways for
> used poles. When installing a beam, lower the slopers and it's still rigid.
> When you moved did you leave the concrete base there or did you take that
> along also? K7GCO
Actually, Ken, I dug out the couple of cubic feet of
concrete I had for a base
around the bottom section, broke it up with a sledge hammer,
threw the pieces
back in the hole, and moved the ENTIRE tower including the
part that had been set
in concrete. It took me a couple of hours and I needed the
exercise anyway.
Stan w7ni@teleport.com
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