[TowerTalk] Tilting Down a US Tower HDX-589

[Randy]

I use a small general-purpose automotive scissors-jack on my TX489MDPL.

Randy
KZ4RV

On 2/23/2015 6:35 PM, jdlambrightatty at gmail.com wrote:
> 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.
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> 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.
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> I suspect someone on the list has a simple solution.
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> J D Lambright
> Montgomery County Attorney
> 936-539-7930
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