[TowerTalk] Hazer question

[GALE STEWARD]

I help build many of those towers and they worked
great!  I have the same arrangement on my 60 ft Rohn
25.  I have some drawings available if anyones
interested (send me an SASE).  Some of the guys that
have used this W3GM design for years are W3EA, W3MM,
N2TK, and myself.  BTW, the gin poles were in the
40-50 ft range (not 80).

73, Stew  K3ND



--- K3GM <k3gm@home.com> wrote:
> 
> Bob, there is another option that you  won't see
> often.  Some real estate is
> essential for this method.  My late friend W3GM had
> several 100ft
> tilt-overs.  With a little welding to make a custom
> base, Gerry ran about 80
> feet of Rohn 25 out along the ground which was used
> as a gin pole to tilt
> the entire tower at the base.  As the tower came
> over, the 80 foot gin pole
> rose into the air.  4 point guying was essential,
> and if I remember right,
> no guys had to be removed for tilting.  I remember
> during one of the
> contests,  we changed out a defective balun on a 10
> degree morning with a
> foot of snow on the ground.  The 6 element 15 meter
> yagi came over a gentle
> as feather.  Sure beat climbing............7  3, Tom
> K3GM
> 
> 
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