[TowerTalk] Triex WT51

[Mike]

I moved my LM-470 with two movers dollies and a few sheets of ply-wood from
the street to my location at the back of the house over grass, it was
surprising easy to do with two people.  Lifted it onto the Dollies with a
small engine crane.

Mike/K6BR

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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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