[TowerTalk] When to RETIRE from climbing?

[Michael Goins]

Heck - I can't even get help getting the hole done, much less any antenna
work.

mike, k5wmg


On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 8:18 PM, W2RU - Bud Hippisley
<W2RU at frontiernet.net>wrote:

>
> On Mar 18, 2011, at 8:51 PM, N1UK wrote:
>
> > Large yagis can be hoisted up with the gin pole and tower operator can
> > wiggle the yagi around the guy wires, or a tram line can be set up and
> the
> > yagi can be hoisted up in that manner. That was how the yagi was hoisted
> up
> > onto my tower.
>
> Not with the woods that surround my tower.  I have to assemble everything
> at the top, then swing it up into place around the top set of guys and any
> other beams already mounted to the mast.  And no way to get a cherry picker
> close enough, regardless of how much they cost.  Helicopter might do the
> job, however.
>
> Bud, W2RU
>
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