[TowerTalk] raiseing a 60' rhon 25

merlin-7 merlin-7 at sc.rr.com
Fri May 4 21:48:26 EDT 2007


 I was thinking about pulling up a 60'  25g tower assembled.

 I would have the guys attached to the tower (no antennas) but here's the catch. I do not want a hinged base. That would mean building a hinged jig at the base that would line up the tower legs to the section that is buried in concrete then lower the tower down to line up the bolt holes.

 I can figure out how to support the tower during the process using the guy wires and a couple of temporary lines to avoid any harmful flexing of the tower. However I can not come up with any good way to build the temporary jig to line up the base section with the rest of the tower, That's not quite true. I can build a jig that would line them up but then I cant think of a good way to build one that could lower the sections together that would not be so complex that I would be better off building the whole thing with a gin pole.

PS. one funny note:
 My current home is up for sale and I had to take my tower down. There is the base with 3 pipes sticking out of it, a 4th pipe in the middle of them (that would be for the rotor mast) and 4 yards of concrete under them. I could not bring myself to cut the pipes off flush after all that work building it. So now there is a round patio table over them and an umbrella that goes thru the center of the table into the rotor mast pipe.
 I thought you all may get a laugh out of that....

 Now I have to cut off my guy anchors just below ground level (sigh)

 Joe
 KI4ILB


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