[TowerTalk] Starting the tower tilting

[Alan NV8A]

On 09/04/07 11:10 am Pat Chiles wrote:

> I received an email inquiry this morning about how I actually start my crank-up tower tilting over so that the weight of the tower is off dead center and starts it decent unaided.  For those of you who haven't had the pleasure it is not easy.  I have tried several levers and fulcums and have yet to get the right combination.  I have also toyed with the idea of a metal bracket to slide under the tower leg and provide a surface to place a bottle jack under the bracket.  As I am writing this the idea of putting a chain with it's ends bolted together under the leg and using a car jack comes to mind.  So my question is what methods have you tried and been successful with.  Is the "end all silver bullet approach" out there?


I've used a wrecking bar between the bottom of the tower proper and the 
mounting plate of my UST HDX-555.

73

Alan NV8A