[TowerTalk] Tilting Down a US Tower HDX-589

[Gary Saboe]

A toe jack/lift functions well for this purpose. I use a welded toe jack 
bracket (PD Machine 978-273-4841) that slips over a 4-ton bottle jack to 
lift my UST HDX772 MDPL. Toe jack has "L" shaped bracket that slips over the 
4-ton bottle jack providing a 2" wide by 2-1/4" long projecting lift surface 
made from 1/2" thick steel to slip under the back leg of the tower. Jack 
provides 7" of travel. Bought it when PD Machine was selling them on eBay -- 
seems it was pretty inexpensive -- about $80-90 delivered with a 4-ton 
bottle jack.  There are others for sale on Amazon as well.

Gary, NØGS

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From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of jdlambrightatty at gmail.com
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2015 5:36 PM
To: towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: [TowerTalk] Tilting Down a US Tower HDX-589

I have a motorized raising fixture for my US Tower HDX-589MDPL , and just last week I successfully raised it to the vertical position for the first time.  Everything went very smoothly and effortlessly with the 1 HP motor and 50:1 ratio Hub City worm gear drive. Raising takes about 4 minutes. I haven't installed my antennas, rotator etc. yet. 

My question is what is the best way to get the tower moving from the vertical position when I want to lower it to horizontal again? It weighs about 2,500 lbs and is sitting very plumb on its base. Of course once it's leaned a bit,  the motorized fixture will easily lower it. There's no way you can just push it even with some slack in the aircraft cable. 

I suspect someone on the list has a simple solution. 

J D Lambright
Montgomery County Attorney
936-539-7930

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