[TowerTalk] Tram

[Blake Bowers]

Not sure I follow..  You used a pickup truck to pull
a rope, which was used for pulling up antennas on
a tower?


> Doesn't neccessarily take two people. I trammed up a 2 ele 40 to 85 feet
> then pulled the mast up another ten feet and then trammed up a 5 ele 20
> (only 34' boom). Not monster antennas, but did the whole thing myself
except
> for the pulling up of the mast where I got help from K7ABV who used his
> pickup, pulling through the rope system I'd set up. I wanted help on this
> part in case something hung up or bound.
>
> Happy Holidays,
>
> Matt--K7BG
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 1:03 PM
> To: stan at aqity.org; TOWERTALK at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Tram
>
>
> I am also a fan of the removing the guy wires as you pull the antenna up
the
> tower.  Removing a 4 el KLM 40 meter beam from 95 feet is easy to do with
> only
> one person...me.  Of course the tram method works fine also, but requires
at
> least two people.
>
> Bill K4XS
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