[TowerTalk] Triex WT51

[Robert]

I have personally seen WT-51 tower moved with an appliance hand truck strapped to the base end of the tower.  With a couple people picking up the top end of the tower it moved quite easily.
 
Bob W7KD


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>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.
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>Mike/K6BR
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>>  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. 
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>>  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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