[TowerTalk] towers for guys with weak body parts

[Jim Hargrave]

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  > -----Original Message-----
  > From: towertalk-bounces at contesting.com
  > [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com]On Behalf Of EZ Rhino
  > Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2011 5:28 PM
  > To: towertalk at contesting.com construction topics.
  > Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] towers for guys with weak body parts
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  > This idea is appealing; never seen one in person though.
  > http://www.heightstowers.com/fold_over_kits.htm
  >
  > Chris
  > KF7P
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  > On Mar 20, 2011, at 16:24 , Jim Hargrave wrote:
  >
  > You can install the guy wires at the top of the tower above the
  > Hazer. Use a
  > longer mast. Then you loosen two guy wires to lower the
  > antenna. Once the
  > antenna is lowered, you can re-install the two guy wires until
  > the antenna
  > is ready to go back up. Phillystran would work well this way as
  > you can pull
  > them to the back side of the tower during lowering or raising. No damage
  > that way.
  >
  >    73s de Jim
  >       W5IFP
  >
  >
  > > -----Original Message-----
  > > From: towertalk-bounces at contesting.com
  > > [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com]On Behalf Of Mike
  > > Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2011 2:14 PM
  > > To: towertalk at contesting.com
  > > Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] towers for guys with weak body parts
  > >
  > >
  > > To lower a Hazer or Razr on a guyed tower, the guys would have
  > > to be taken off at the
  > > bottom. The tram would travel with them inside it. Seems
  > > phillystran would be easier
  > > to deal with, providing the tram didn't do damage.
  > >
  > > 73 Mike NF4L
  > >
  > > On 3/20/2011 11:37 AM, Jim Spears wrote:
  > >> Crankup  with a separate electric winch for crank up/down and
  > > tilt would
  > >> seem to offer a really good solution to N3HRT's question.  US
  > > Tower and
  > >> TriEx (Tash) offer 70' crankups that could fit within his
  > > fiscal budget and
  > >> height requirement.
  > >>
  > >>
  > >>
  > >> Hazer was suggested, can one of these work if the tower is
  > > guyed and the
  > >> antenna(s) would need to come down through the guys?  I have
  > > always liked
  > >> the idea but have never seen one in use.
  > >>
  > >>
  > >>
  > >> Jim/N1NK
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