[TowerTalk] Rohn base

[Julio Peralta]

Have you looked at the tilt over crank-up that US Towers makes?

Julio
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "tom heifner" <tomheifner at comcast.net>
To: <towertalk at contesting.com>
Cc: "Tom Heifner" <tomheifner at comcast.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 12:32 PM
Subject: [TowerTalk] Rohn base


I'm soon to have my 60th birthday and my tower climbing days are over.  I
have a tilt-over Rohn 45 but am thinking about eliminating this hinge system
and buying some more sections and going straight up about 80-90 feet.  I
have also considered chunking the whole thing and buying a crack-up tower,
but that will still leave me about 30 feet of climbing even when lowered.

Surely someone has thought up the idea of having some type of permanent
A-frame at the ground level, so the tower can be assembled and disassembled
from the bottom.  That is, place a 10-foot section in the vertical position.
Hoist it vertically with a pulley and winch until the bottom is 10-feet off
the ground and bolt another section to its bottom.  Just keep going to the
full height.  Sort of like an oil well in the opposite direction.  This
would limit my climbing height to about 10-15 feet.
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