[TowerTalk] Rotor Removal

[Don Tucker]

Good suggestions which I have tucked away in my Good Ideas folder for my 
fixed tower when it goes up.

But with the old HyGain HG70HD I'm presently using there is very limited 
space between the rotor, the inner alignment plate and the top plate with 
the bearing. I have a comealong and even some double pulleys but the space 
just doesn't seem to exist to use them.

So far I've been lucky, with a bucket truck and dry weather I've been able 
to use a clamp on the mast above the bearing and lift it, as least enough to 
get the rotor out. This effort also necessitates getting the inner tower 
section up (enough to expose the rotator) and block the section, which has 
never made me feel really safe!!!  When the tower is layed over with the 
layover fixture it is easier to pull the inner section out or the mast, but 
this, for me, is much less desireable than using the bucket truck.  But when 
the rains have softened the ground, I don't dare bring the bucket truck in.

Wonder if anyone with a HG70HD has developed a better method for dealing 
with this unique (read cruddy) tower rotator setup?

Don W7WLL