[TowerTalk] Lifting 25G

[Fred Roberts]

Steve-

And here I thought you were 39.  Amazing how people can be fooled by a silver tongued 
rascal isn't it.

73-
Fred, W6TKV

K7LXC at aol.com wrote:

> Howdy, TowerTalkians --
> 
>     A couple of weeks ago I asked about lifting 100' of 45G in one piece. I 
> thought it was a pretty bold thing to do but it turns out that others have done 
> it with no problem so I gave it a try. And voila - up it went.
> 
>     Yesterday I had to take down 100' of 25G . It'd been up for 40 years and 
> a top guy had broken so it was listing precariously. It turns out that the 
> owner had used EHS for the bottom 2 sets of guys and they were in FB shape. The 
> upper set was some sort of "aircraft" cable that was terminally rusted. In fact 
> the rust was the only thing holding it up. :-(  It was a clear violation of 
> the LXC Prime Directive to "DO what the manufacturer says".
> 
>     Anyway we got the crane out and picked up the whole thing figuring that 
> as we lowered it, it would buckle somewhere. Imagine our surprise when it 
> didn't! The whole hundred-feet got lowered down unharmed with little deflection of 
> the tower. Cool! 
> 
>     After 40 years most of the sections were in good shape and the condition 
> of the joint nuts and bolts varied from real good to real bad. 
> 
>     So if you have a chance to stand a whole tower with a crane, I'd say go 
> for it - it's not that expensive, it's fast, and it's safe!
> 
>     As an aside, I've decided to hang up my climbing belt at the end of this 
> tower season. I'll be 60 by then so it's time to do some stuff that's less 
> stressful. Besides, it's way too much damn work - hi. 
> 
> Cheers,
> Steve    K7LXC
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