- 1. [TowerTalk] Receiving a crank-up tower (score: 1)
- Author: "Art Greenberg" <art@artg.tv>
- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 19:08:56 -0400
- I'm in the research & planning stages of a crank-up (telescoping) tower purchase. It would be my first such tower. I'm looking at "small" towers (for < 12 square feet of antenna) in the vicinity of 5
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2019-09/msg00289.html (9,083 bytes)
- 2. Re: [TowerTalk] Receiving a crank-up tower (score: 1)
- Author: John Simmons <jasimmons@pinewooddata.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 18:51:05 -0500
- Art, This situation occurs all the time! Freight truck drivers hate waiting and any of them above a moron will call you ahead with an ETA. The tower company will tend to work with only one shipping c
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2019-09/msg00291.html (10,879 bytes)
- 3. Re: [TowerTalk] Receiving a crank-up tower (score: 1)
- Author: Les Kalmus <w2lk@bk-lk.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 19:44:44 -0400
- Hire a heavy duty wrecker. He should be able to lift the tower on his hook and move it where you need it. That's what I did. Les W2LK On 9/11/2019 7:08 PM, Art Greenberg wrote: I'm in the research &
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2019-09/msg00292.html (9,029 bytes)
- 4. Re: [TowerTalk] Receiving a crank-up tower (score: 1)
- Author: Grant Saviers <grants2@pacbell.net>
- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 17:26:57 -0700
- Hi Art, The truck could be a flatbed, a box, or caravan with side curtains. A adequately rated 16 ft shooting boom forklift and some slings can unload any one of those. If you are going off hard surf
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2019-09/msg00293.html (11,260 bytes)
- 5. Re: [TowerTalk] Receiving a crank-up tower (score: 1)
- Author: Michael OBrien <k0myw@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 06:20:37 +0000 (UTC)
- You've already received good ideas, but here's what I did in receiving my HDX-555, which weighs about 800 pounds and arrived in an enclosed tractor-trailer rig: When the delivery driver alerted me to
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2019-09/msg00298.html (10,689 bytes)
- 6. Re: [TowerTalk] Receiving a crank-up tower (score: 1)
- Author: "Charles \"Ed\" Pitts K5OF" <cpitts@ec.rr.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 05:48:03 -0400
- You may want to try and obtain the assistance of a roll on roll off wrecker type truck. I had my local mechanic meet me at a location to remove a US tower I had taken down and layed on the ground alo
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2019-09/msg00300.html (8,590 bytes)
- 7. Re: [TowerTalk] Receiving a crank-up tower (score: 1)
- Author: "John Holmes" <w9ily@comcast.net>
- Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 11:52:56 -0500
- Art, If you opt for the wrecker to unload your new tower, I would suggest you locate a backup wrecker with the appropriate straps. My primary wrecker had to go to - what? - a wreck on the highway and
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2019-09/msg00311.html (7,765 bytes)
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