[TowerTalk] HDBX-48 Tilt Up

[K8RI on TT]

On 10/11/2011 8:42 AM, Wilson Lamb wrote:
> Can you use a lift point in a tree or on your roof?  As long as you can get
> high enough to get started off the ground, you should be OK.
>
> A few people and a ladder can likely push it up a ways, making the initial
> load less.

5 of us put up a 50 foot steel tower with the rotator and mast using two 
extension ladder sections to walk it up.  That was about the limit for 
safety, but it would have been notably heavier than the HDBX.  Any time 
you are pushing your limits you are also pushing the safety limits.

73

Roger (K8RI)
>
> I'm assuming you have some sort of tilt base??  Tell us more.
> Wilson
> W4BOH
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