[TowerTalk] Rohn 65G

[dennis o'connor]

I have taken down a 270 foot tower with a crane...  the crane is your 
path of least resistance and what it costs in money will be repaid 
times ten in reduced sweat, time, and injury...  For picking up the 
assembled tower, it will be snatched about 1/3 down from the top... 
This leaves weight on the base as it is tipped upwards, and weight 
outboard of the snatch point, reducing the bending moment in the center 
of the tower to avoid tweaking it...
A single snatch point, down from the top, will leave it hanging at a 
small angle... This is usually not a problem with pivot mount legs as 
one or two legs can be set into alignment and then by booming sideways 
the tower will tip to straight up...  If you have to drop the legs 
straight down to couple to the base, then a higher snatch point will be 
needed... My gut feeling is that 65 Rohn will tolerate that kind of 
abuse in the hands of a skilled rigger...

Denny - k8do


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