[TowerTalk] Finally got my crank up tilt over

[Patrick Greenlee]

1st, ME TOO!  My new Tashjian (used to be Tri-Ex) DX70 arrived 
yesterday.  Yahoo!

I can find no instructions for anything regarding this tower.  I 
understand the acute sensitivity to the common litigious behavior that 
has become the norm but gee whiz, I would like some guidance as it could 
save me some suffering from an unseen problem or avert some dumb thing I 
might do for not knowing any better.  So I am appealing for any comments 
from anyone familiar with this free standing crank-up/tilt-over tower.

OK back to Joel's situation:  I removed a worn out rusty hand winch from 
a two section tower that I was customizing and replaced it with a Harbor 
Freight 120 volt hoist and am pleased with the results.  My objection to 
the little winches intended for off road automotive service is that they 
are all 12 volt and serious current at 12 volts as can be supplied 
briefly by a good battery but would take a humongous power supply which 
to conform to good practice would require the low volt PS to be near the 
load because long cables would have to be huge to avoid serious voltage 
drop. You can't have the PS next to all three guy anchor locations.  So 
3 power supplies, or three batteries would be needed and you would have 
to run AC to each PS.

Much simpler would be to use 120VAC hoists or winches.  Not enough line 
pull?  Use a snatch block and double it or a multi-part block and tackle 
for serious multiplication.

A rig like this will give you multiple opportunities to "mess up" but 
with care should do what you want nicely.  Best of luck to you. Please 
report back what you decide to do and how it worked out.

Patrick        NJ5G

On 2/16/2016 10:42 AM, Joel Wilson wrote:
> Finally got my crank up tilt over tower.  54', 3 sections, guyed and fairly heavy duty.  It's an old Tri Ex TH 354 which I can find very little info on.  What I'm planning on doing is replacing the hand winch with an ATV winch with braking.  Superwinch makes a 3000lb one.
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Superwinch-1130220-LT3000ATV-fairlead-handlebar/dp/B0034ZUZM6/ref=pd_sim_sbs_469_3?ie=UTF8&dpID=51GD794UKQL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR160%2C160_&refRID=1BCD5F92M22MGCQCZ87E
>
> What I'm curious about is what about using ATV winches for the guy wires?  I have a couple reasons for wanting this.  I want to do some experiments with antenna height and I still need to guy the tower off but want to be able to guy it off fairly quickly.  With the winches, I could run all the power leads to one spot and be able to put a level on the tower as I tighten the winches one by one being careful not to torque the whole thing down.
>
> If anyone has any tips I'm all ears and any info on this tower like wind loading would be most appreciated.
>
> Joel
> norcal
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