[TowerTalk] Please critique my plan for installing this tower

[Dick Blumenstein]

HI Ed-

There is very little surface rust on the tower and I got it for a very 
good price, especially considering the addition of the antennas, prop 
pitch motor, Green Heron digital prop pitch motor controller and the 2 
crank motors that came with it.

I probably could erect it without rebuilding the pulley sheaves and wire 
rope, but feel that it wouldn't hurt to check them out first.  They 
might be in good order, but as long as I have it that far apart, why not 
replace them?

Thanks for the feedback on the lightning rod.

Dick, K0CAT

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Ed Sawyer wrote on 4/18/2016 11:23 AM:
> A couple of quick comments.
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> Is all that work on restoring a 20 year old crank up tower actually worth
> it?
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> Having experienced a total of 6 lightning strikes over 10 years with 2 - 85
> foot tall structures, I can tell that only 1 of the 6 hit the top mast of
> the tower (approximately 4 ft above the highest yagi to hold the trusses).
> The other 5 either hit the ground in the nearby vicinity or in one case hit
> my 10M yagi at the 30 ft level (go figure).
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> My personal opinion is that a lightning rod on the top of a tower is
> useless.
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> Ed  N1UR
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