[TowerTalk] Morrison Tower Jack

[Clint Talmadge]

Thank you for the picture ! 

I have been following this thread because, like others I thought the original poster was talking about the "Tower Jack" that is used to separate tower sections that have become stuck.  I have been involved with towers since 1966 when I joined the Military and installed and maintained towers literally all over the world in my 20 years with Uncle Sam's World Wide Travel Club. I became a Ham in 1991 and installed a few for myself and other local Hams.  I even worked at Texas Towers for a while and Gerald taught me a lot of things that I had not encountered before, but I will have to say I have never seen the pictured "Tower Jack". Like others, I have used a variety of 'other' things such as Tractor Mounted Back Hoes, a Tow Truck and Purpose Built Erection Fixtures to accomplish the same thing. 

I presently have two sections of Rohn 20G with a home made bracket on the top to push hinged base towers up.

I guess the day is not a waste when you learn some thing new.

Clint - W5CPT
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jeff Griffin 
  To: towertalk at contesting.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 7:49 AM
  Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Morrison Tower Jack


  Located here is a picture of a Morrison Tower Jack......

  http://home.comcast.net/~kb2m/jack.jpg

   The companion prop (not shown)  is nothing more then a tower jack without 
  the jack.
    I setup an album of pictures from my visit yesterday, but can't figure out 
  how to allow anonymous viewing in Comcast Snapfish. Anyone know how? I'm an 
  amateur retired person, only been retired 4 months, so I could use a little 
  help.
     Anyway a picture is worth a thousand words. This is a light duty jack, 
  Bill the owner of the company said it is used for towers up to 40 foot or 
  so. The heavy duty jacks that I used to use before they were stolen would 
  work up to a 70 footer.
    I asked Bill who manufactured the jacks, he said he bought them used from 
  someone getting out of the tower business. So the manufacturer is unknown. 
  Looking at them they sorta look like surplus military. The heavy overbuilt, 
  over engineered look. I don't think I will attempt to build a set.
    I think we have beat tower jacks to death, no more posts from me on the 
  subject....

  73 Jeff kb2m