Hi Gang, I just purchased and have brought home US Tower, model HDX-572MDPL, 72' Heavy Duty tower from the estate of a SK. It has a motor drive whose design includes a postive pulldown feature. The t
It would be interesting to visit the factory and see how they put the cables on the new towers. On my HDX-5106, I have to extend it about half way horizontally (> 50 ft!) to put the rotator in. UST s
I have tried to sketch out the cable stringing of the tower using a large bag of clothespins to snap onto what I have already sketched but am not confident of being accurate. I would certainly try to
Heavy Duty tower from the estate of a SK. use. overkill but is definitely erring on the side of safety. Since my tower is 7 years old I'd like to start out with fresh cabling. The UST recommendation
I've had to do 3 re-cabling jobs. One a 72' UST where one of the cables was so bad it broke. One a 89' UST where the cables had more than surface rust and had more than the 6 strands broken rule of t
I've recabled 100s of tower over the past 28 years, Tri-Ex, Tristao, US Tower and even a Rohn crankup. Although not difficult, it is time consuming and does require a little mechanical ability. I usu