[TowerTalk] questions on the use of a man-bucket and guy tensioning 5

[StellarCAT]

Hi Steve... how are you? Long time .... 

no – I’m not asking about crane vs. tramming .... the question is crane strapped to the antenna vs. using a man bucket. Its when using a man bucket that I fear the guys will be in the way of the bucket getting in all the way to the tower. There is also – now that I think about it – a rotating ring there which sticks out – AND the arms so all in all I think just using the crane with each antenna strapped is going to be the easiest way to do it. 

sorry if I missed your point ...

g.



From: K7LXC at aol.com 
Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2016 12:58 PM
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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] questions on the use of a man-bucket and guy tensioning 5

>  But the guy that is doing the climbing is saying the man bucket will make putting the antennas up easier. Having never used one I?m writing to get the comments of those that have used one. 

>  How is the antenna ?held? to the man bucket? And whatever that is does that get in the way of mounting the antenna when at the tower. I.e. you have the side rails of the man bucket that would be ?hitting? the tower ? will the antenna ?move in? to position and still be SAFELY held until bolted in place? 


Hiya, Gary --

    For me, this is the preferred method for tower/antenna installation. Of course I always have a dozen or so carabiners and slings that make the job much easier. 

>  Is it really any faster? 

    Sure. Otherwise you'd have to tram everything up (which is my second preferred technique) with the attendant rigging time of an hour or more. The crane'll do it in 5 minutes. 

    I don't remember any time that guy wires caused problems with crane use. 

Cheers & GL,
Steve    K7LXC
TOWER TECH