[TowerTalk] Finally got my crank up tilt over

[Grant Saviers]

Used prices are all over the map - from "free, you take it down and 
away, and btw it is hidden in the rear of the house and needs a crane to 
remove it", to estate sales $500 to $1000 for a 54' or 70' manual 
crankup, to $5k+ for motorized like a UST 589, accessible and on the 
ground.  Then, how do you pick it up and move it?  Is it 500# or 3000#?  
What equipment can you rent, borrow, and will work on the site?  Who can 
operate the equipment safely and rig the tower for travel?  Then 
questions about what needs fixed - frozen bearings in the sheaves (I 
paid $30 ea on ebay for NOS as no longer made), new cables needed, new 
winch,  might need regalvanized, is there a base with it ($500 if still 
made plus shipping), is the manufacturing outfit still in business and 
will they supply wet stamp drawings if a permit is needed, will a local 
weld shop make a base, etc?

All of this adds up, so sometimes cheap is not inexpensive. However, 
there are often very good deals if you have the resources to manage the 
logistics and know what problems need solved.

Remember also, that a new tower arrives on a long haul flatbed truck 
which you must unload, so those challenges are the same for "new".

Grant KZ1W

On 2/17/2016 7:58 AM, dw wrote:
> Whats a common selling price for a used crank up or tilt over tower?
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> On Tue, Feb 16, 2016, at 01:28 PM, Ken K6MR wrote:
>> I bought a used TH354 as my first tower in 1967. This was one of a series
>> of guyed crankups that Tri-Ex made in the 60s and a little into the
>> 1970s. The series was the T, TH, H, and HS, in heights from 37 feet
>> (-237) to 122 feet (-7122). Each version used combinations of the same
>> tower sections depending on how tall and what section widths you wanted.
>>   I was in the tower business in the early 1970s and saw a number of them.
>> They were much cheaper than the self supporting models. But not nearly as
>> strong.