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

[Steve Maki]

Ahh, I wasn't picturing short 20' pieces of tower with a ring close to 
the bottom.

Well in lieu of a roll-around foot-basket of some sort, one option would 
a simple foot that bolted to the leg flanges, maybe a thick piece of 
plywood or something that was sized to keep the lower ring from touching 
the ground.

Apologies if that solution was already mentioned, I didn't follow every 
post.

-Steve K8LX

On 10/17/2016 23:22 PM, Grant Saviers wrote:

> The tower base can't go on the ground, that was the problem for me with
> some 20' sections with two rings.  Even with one ring, sometimes it is
> at the low end of the section.
>
> Grant KZ1W
>
> On 10/17/2016 19:55 PM, Steve Maki wrote:
>> Hmm. All I can say is we install much larger pieces of assembled tower
>> than R55 (and 50' pieces of monopole weighing many thousands of pounds
>> for that matter), and crane operators seem to have no problem picking
>> the tower from the top end and standing it up straight without
>> dragging it. It seems to be second nature with these guys.
>>
>> I can't quite visualize how rings complicate things that much if you
>> have the base on the ground and the tower tipped up on a support 2/3
>> or so up the tower.
>>
>> -Steve K8LX