[TowerTalk] Starting the tower tilting

[Dan Kovatch]

Ditto, Big bar with fulcrum and foot to get it tilting-Of course I pack a 
few LBS to help it along!!!!

Dan W8CAR

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan NV8A" <nv8a at att.net>
To: "towertalk reflector" <towertalk at contesting.com>
Cc: "Pat Chiles" <chilesp at comcast.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 4:01 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Starting the tower tilting


> 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
>
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