[TowerTalk] Fwd: Aluminum towers -- can you really "walk one up"?

[Richard (Rick) Karlquist]

On 3/8/2015 11:23 PM, Roger (K8RI) on TT wrote:
> Easily,
>
> I've walked a 40'  25G steel tower up by my self when in my mid 60'  and
> at 5' 7", I weighed less than 165#.  The one arm/hand rests momentarily
> while the other holds, then both hold, giving both a bit of a rest
> holding half the weight each.  the part after the maximum weight gets
> lighter rapidly.
>
> However it works, the 40 footer was a relatively easy lift while it took
> a "bunch" to do the 50 footer.
>
> Roger  (K8RI)
>

That doesn't add up.  Rohn 25G weighs 40 lbs per section for
a total of 160 lbs.  Multiply by 1.7 and that's 272 lbs.  Since
you are shorter than the 6 feet I assumed, we need to add
another 10% bringing the total to 300 lbs.  Almost twice your
weight.  Maybe easy for you, but certainly not for most people.

Rick N6RK