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

[Richard (Rick) Karlquist]

On 3/23/2015 12:31 AM, Roger (K8RI) on TT wrote:
> I'm 5'7" and weighed somewhere around 150- 160, give or take  (It's been
> quite a while) and I'm nowhere near being a paragon of strength,
> although I was in good shape. My limit was benching 150#.  Military
> Press was only a bit over 100#. So, yes, I did weight training, but my
> limits were quite modest. Walking the 40' steel tower (25G) up was not

Assuming we agree the R25 weighs 160 lbs, it should be obvious
that when you are 20 feet from the hinge, you are basically
balancing the whole tower on your hands, all 160 lbs of it.
And it shouldn't be surprising that it gets worse going higher.

Rick N6RK