[TowerTalk] Erecting tower sections solo

[ve4xt at mymts.net]

Tower work with nobody watching your six and nobody to call for help?

Is it really a good idea?

73,
Kelly
ve4xt 

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> On Dec 2, 2015, at 4:32 PM, N1BUG <paul at n1bug.com> wrote:
> 
> Herb's method is certainly much faster than mine. I did three sections that way before deciding it wasn't the right approach for me personally. That's when I switched to the counterweight.
> 
> Paul N1BUG
> 
> 
>> On 12/02/2015 05:00 PM, Herbert Schoenbohm wrote:
>> With Rohn 25, and a gin pole is not really required, it is very easy to
>> just lay the section around the base of the tower you have walked up up
>> like 3 sections. (Preferably guyed) and clip yourself on at the top.
>> Lower a rope with an eye hook and snag one of the sections. Pull it up
>> and stack it. Normally on a calm day a single person can place in a
>> section easily by being above the top of the top of the tower with half
>> his body.  (Tie the pull up rope and pulled tower off so if it falls it
>> will only be a few feet.) Proceed to do the next two sections before you
>> guy the 60' spot.  Then repeat the process for the next 30 feet and guy
>> again if needed. You can have the guy cable pre prepared and take the up
>> on your belt if they are Phylistran.  if you have all your hardware and
>> wrenches in a pouch with and alignment punch and 2 lbs mall, a be tower
>> should go up this way easily.
>> 
>> Remember to have someone with in shouting distance if you run into any
>> trouble.  Always get a weather report before you do this without a TS
>> 100 miles away.
>> 
>> 
>> Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ
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