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

[mike stokes]

How about strapping a 2 wheeler like move refridgerators with ?

Just a thought.

Mike
KK9V

On Fri, Oct 14, 2016, 11:06 AM TexasRF--- via TowerTalk <
towertalk at contesting.com> wrote:

> Gary, you might consider lashing a 4ft X 8ft sheet of plywood to the bottom
>  tower section to protect the end of the tower while dragging it across the
>  ground. Probably should be 3/4" thick to survive. Even a 2ft X 4ft might
> do  the job.
>
> Or, strap a couple of 4" X 4" X 8ft posts to the tower and let the ends of
> the posts take the abuse. Kind of like what you have seen in old Western
> movies  showing how Indians moved stuff around on two poles strapped to
> their
> horse.
>
> If you don't do something to protect the tower you can expect some  of the
> galvanizing to be scrapped off. I have seen that happen just  skidding
> sections around on a smooth concrete floor. With upwards of 400 pounds  of
> weight
> on the lower end it is a given.
>
> I have not done any of these things so consider this as a concept only. As
> they say, your mileage may vary!
>
> 73,
> Gerald K5GW
>
>
>
>
>
> In a message dated 10/14/2016 8:57:04 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
> rxdesign at ssvecnet.com writes:
>
> Indeed  you are correct ... however space is the limitation. The 60’ piece
> was  assembled with the top nearest the crane and going away from that
> spot –
>  that  distance it goes away is probably too far for the crane as it would
> need to  boom out too much... with hindsight I might have tried to do it
> differently to  accomplish this better but even thinking about that I don’t
> think it would  have been possible with 6 antennas all assembled scattered
> around. The space  where it would have had to go is where I had to stage
> the 50’
> boom 5 el 20 in  order to get it pre-assembled on to a 14’ tower section –
> it and the 80/75  dipole are at the top and I had to use that space to get
> it ready (its now  done and ready to go).
>
> g.
>
>
>
> From: Jeff Draughn
> Sent:  Friday, October 14, 2016 9:05 AM
> To: StellarCAT
> Cc: tower
> Subject:  Re: [TowerTalk] Legs of a 60' piece of tower being dragged while
> being  lifted
>
>
> 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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