[TowerTalk] Tilting Down a US Tower HDX-589

[Tom LeClerc W1TJL]

And I have a MDB-770 and an MDB-850 and with both I have an old hickory 
handle from a splitting maul and I put a small amount of slack in the 
cable and use it as a lever between the raising fixture and the tower.  
No metal pieces to scratch the galvanized but much easier than pushing 
by hand...

73, Tom W1TJL


On 2/24/2015 4:05 PM, Bryan Swadener via TowerTalk wrote:
> I have a TX472. I just put some slack into the tilt cable, and give the tower a push.
> vy 73,Bryan WA7PRC
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>      Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 17:35:36 -0600
> 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.
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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.
>
> I suspect someone on the list has a simple solution.
>
> J D Lambright
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