[TowerTalk] Legs of a 60' piece of tower being dragged while being lifted

[Jeff Draughn]

I may be all wet here, especially since I have never done this before, but
it seems if you position the base of the section you want to lift near the
tower you want to lift it onto then swing the boom of the crane to pick up
the end, as you pick it up if you swing the boom back towards the base of
the section you're lifting there would be very little dragging involved.

Again without having real life experience at doing this I may be completely
off-base but just a thought.

Jeff


On Friday, October 14, 2016, StellarCAT <rxdesign at ssvecnet.com> wrote:

> So Fred pointed this out ... I hadn’t considered it up until then... is it
> a problem to just allow the legs drag in the dirt while the 60’ piece with
> rotating ring attached (~850#) is lifted? Is there ANY chance the legs will
> deform making it impossible to mate it to the tower? I don’t have access to
> an end loader or any other piece of heavy eqmt ... I thought, and this
> might sound silly, a dolly ... those cheap(er) ones – seem to be rated at
> 600# ... if I could get enough guys to lift the end and put that under the
> end – then we could pull it along as the crane goes up.... although the
> ground is really rough so that is doubtful... it would probably get stuck
> and the legs drop off which would be far worse than just having them drag
> on the ground ... experiences anyone?
>
> Gary
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