[TowerTalk] Tilting tower query

[John Tait]

Barry Kirkwood wrote:
> Greetings:
> Has anyone experience or comments on non telescoping tilting towers?
> That is: A rigid tubular or lattice mast with a stub mast and hinge.
> In the down posture looks like an assymetrical seesaw.
> Remember years back in a photo in the front pages of QST saw one of tubular
> steel maybe 100ft tall.
> In my case have a rugged lattice tower, 6x 10ft sections, wondering about
> making it a tilt tower.
> Would value any opinions, reports on experience before I spend money on
> calculations by a professional engineer.
> tnx es 73
> Baz ZL1DD
>
>   
In one of the old ARRL handbooks, there was  a design for a tiltover 
tower made of well casing. I've drawn a pic from memory at   
http://www.iol.ie/~bravo/Well%20Casing%20Tower.htm. A friend EI9FE, 
successfully built a scaled up version of this, in the region of 90ft .
  Vy 73
     John EI7BA