[TowerTalk] Fw: tristao 50 ft motorized crank up HELP

[Steve Katz]

Great history, Skip.  

Didn't Tri-Ex originally stand for "Tristao Extendable?"  I seem to recall
that...

Steve WB2WIK

-----Original Message-----
From: KJ6Y at aol.com [mailto:KJ6Y at aol.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 9:12 AM
To: n6kj.kelly at gmail.com; towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Fw: tristao 50 ft motorized crank up HELP


Wrong.
 
Lou Tristao worked for Tri-Ex way back (50-60's?) in Tulare, CA.  They  
parted ways and Tri-Ex moved to Visalia and Tristao started his own tower
company. 
 He sold out to Palmer Industries in the early 80's and they never  really 
got going with the towers and Lou started another tower company.  He  had 
several names, Tower Master, Tristao-Pratt, and then just Tristao.  US
Tower took 
them over in the mid 80's and made many, many improvements.
 
Tri-Ex was split up and the crankup up business eventually sold to Wil-Burt

in Ohio, who got out of the Amateur tower business.  Karl Tashjian, who was

the engineer at Tri-Ex, started making towers based on Tri-Ex but somewhat  
improved, and on a much smaller scale.
 
 
 
Skip,  KJ6Y
_Communications Service  Co_ (http://members.aol.com/kj6y/skip.html) 
818-887-3569 
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