[TowerTalk] How do you move a gin pole *safely* up the tower?

[Dick Green WC1M]

I like the step where you clip the second pulley to the top of the section
as it goes past. That eliminates climbing to rig it at the top of the next
section. Wish I'd thought of that!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Robbins K1TTT [mailto:k1ttt at arrl.net]
> Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 8:12 PM
> To: 'R Atkins'; towertalk at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] How do you move a gin pole *safely* up the
> tower?
> 
> To safely move a gin pole up a level takes some coordination... and
> preferably another rope and pulley.
> 
> If you are manually carrying it up to the top of the new section you
> proceed
> like this:
> 
> 1. loosen the clamps on the pipe and slide it down so the top pulley is
> just
> above the clamp on the leg.
> 2. tie it to your belt or have some other clamping arrangement to move
> it up
> the tower, then disconnect the clamps on the tower leg.
> 3. wrestle it up to the top of the next section and clamp it on... note
> it
> is easy to clamp on because most of the weight is below the clamp now.
> 4. push the pipe up so it is 10' above the top of the tower and tighten
> the
> clamps on the pipe.
> 5. disconnect the rope from the top of the section and send it down for
> the
> next section to be pulled up.
> 
> My preference, especially with a heavy pole for bigger towers adds a
> few
> steps...  have a separate pulley with a rope through it with one end of
> the
> rope tied to the gin pole clamp and the other end on the ground. and
> make
> the process look like this.
> 
> 6.  when the top of the new section reaches your level on the tower
> have the
> ground crew stop lifting it for a minute.  Clip the new pulley to the
> top of
> the section.
> 7. finish pulling the section up and secure it normally.
> 8. have the ground crew take the slack out of the new rope.
> 1. loosen the clamps on the pipe and slide it down so the top pulley is
> just
> above the clamp on the leg.
> 2. have the ground crew take the slack out of the other rope, then
> disconnect the clamps on the leg.
> 3. have the ground crew pull the pole up to the top of the section as
> you
> follow it, then clamp the pole to the leg.
> 4. push the pipe up so it is 10' above the top of the tower and tighten
> the
> clamps on the pipe.
> 5. disconnect the rope from the top of the section and send it down for
> the
> next section to be pulled up.
> 
> It takes a little thought to keep the ropes out of each others way, but
> this
> system works very nicely and keeps the tower crew from having to move
> the
> pole by hand.
> 
> 
> David Robbins K1TTT
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> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: towertalk-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:towertalk-
> > bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of R Atkins
> > Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 23:18
> > To: towertalk at contesting.com
> > Subject: [TowerTalk] How do you move a gin pole *safely* up the
> tower?
> >
> > Hey all! Things all going rather well, we are up to 35 feet so far.
> other
> > than a few mis-starts, all is good except for one thing... How do you
> get
> > the gin pole *safely* up to the next level? It seems like ideally
> they
> > would have two clamps (I don't know if that's right or not)... but
> this
> > one doesn't.
> >
> > When I get it up to where I need to mount it, it becomes *very*
> unwieldy.
> > The leverage 8-10 feet up makes it nearly impossible to keep vertical
> with
> > one hand while I try to clamp it to the tower leg with my other hand.
> >
> > If you can help.. please reply directly as we are stacking
> > sections/building the tower as I write this.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Rusty
> > K0FE
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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