[TowerTalk] Triex WT51

[Gene Fuller]

And perhaps have the boom truck/crane follow you home, unload it and place 
it at or near it's new home.
Gene / W2LU

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Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2013 2:55 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Triex WT51


>
>>  Anyway, my problem is how to lower it. I'd put a ladder up  to the top
> to remove the antenna/rotator but how to lower the actual tower over  is 
> the
> question. Didn't see anything I could attach a block and tackle to. I see
> from the current site, the tower weighs 360 pounds. Now I am a member of 
> the
> local DX club, but like most clubs today, it is full of old men and couple
> of us  slowly aging? woman.
>
>>  So I'm asking, how many folks do you  think I would need to walk the
> tower over? Or any other ideas such as letting it  fall onto something 
> soft and
> crush able like a bunch of cardboard boxes?  Ideas?
>
>    Well, once you get it horizontal you still have to  figure out how to
> get it to the front of the house and then onto a truck or  trailer. My 
> advice
> is to get a crane or boom-truck involved. It can handle  everything you
> need to do; e.g. get a man-basket (or woman-basket in this  case) to take 
> the
> antenna off. Then the crane can pick the  tower up and put it on the
> truck/trailer.
>
> Cheers & GL,
> Steve    K7LXC
> TOWER TECH
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