[TowerTalk] Taking down a tri-ex LM354

[Chris]

I've done the winch over the house trick with rollers, and that worked well.

Recently I built my own tilt-over fixture to raise my current tower.  It was made out of four 4x4 posts.  Two were upright and fastened to the tower baseplate, and two 16'ers diagonally from the top of the two vertical posts to out in front of the tower.  It looked like a giant grasshopper.  I used a  K2550 winch with a hand crank to raise it, with a 2;1 block and tackle at the tower.  It looked horrible (really a quick 'n dirty cobbled together job) but worked well.

Chris
KF7P




On Jun 9, 2014, at 9:05 AM, John Hudson wrote:

> Access to the tower is always a limiting factor, I took down (with lots of
> help) a old Tristo 55' crankup down that was in a small backyard with lots
> of trees. No access in the back yard and my buddy Mark AA0YY came up with a
> plan.. we used a truck in the front yard as a deadman and rope over the roof
> of the house but we used rollers at the rook peak to slide the rope. While
> it was not the best plan it was the easiest and economical (cheapest). As we
> put weight on the rope we were watching all points of contact on the house
> for stress and there was none. It took us longer to remove the bolts on the
> tilt base then it did to lay it on the ground
> 
> Check for a backhoe, telehandler, even a farm tractor with front bucket may
> be of use. We have a local company that installs signs and billboards and
> they charged $100/hour and they do a lot of the hams work around here. Their
> trucks can pull into a drive way and boom over to make a pick
> 
> 
> Good luck be safe
> John
> KO4XJ