[TowerTalk] Tower Sections - Shipping methods ?

[Roger K8RI on Tower]

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> Don't sign the delivery ticket until you thoroughly inspect any tower
> shipped to your home or business.

You need to be even more careful than that if you have to pick up the tower, 
or freight.
Some years back, actually quite a few years back,  I picked up a shipment of 
KLM antennas at the freight depot.  Everything from the 40 meter linear 
loaded  through 10 meter monobanders. There was also a Wilson 7L 10 meter 
yagi.  We really had to work to get them all on the pick up truck.

We loaded up, I checked, went inside to sign, and then headed for home.  I 
noticed something didn't look right, made a U-turn and went back in.  And 
inventory showed two of the big antennas missing.  They said I signed for 
them and left.  Of course the antennas were removed while I was inside 
signing.


Roger Halstead (K8RI and ARRL 40 year Life Member)
N833R - World's oldest Debonair CD-2
www.rogerhalstead.com
> Tom, WW5L
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> Don Havlicek wrote:
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>>Doug,
>>Check with Texas Towers ... I think they will have them shipped directly
>>to you from Universal.  Last time I bought them, the shipping was almost
>>nil due to light weight .. watch out for BENT sections when they arrive
>>... file damage report EARLY if that happens!
>>
>>I'm in the same boat .. need four or five sections of various sizes and
>>six bases to put in concrete [don't get worried, big guns, only three
>>are for towers with beams ..the other three are for verticals made from
>>tower sections!].
>>
>>Don
>>N8DE
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>>douglas.snowden at med.va.gov wrote:
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>>
>>>I would like to buy one or two sections of Universal tower aluminum
>>>tower sections.  Is it economically feasible? I mean, isn't there a
>>>minimum charge for trucking?  Are there other ways of shipping something
>>>that is light, but over the UPS or Fedex length limitations?  A tower
>>>section only weighs about 15 pounds or so.
>>>
>>>
>>>Doug
>>>
>>>N4IJ
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