I was told this story by the owner of a 100' Rohn 45G tower who hired a professional and well-known tower crew out of New Hampshire to dismantle the aforementioned tower and he watched it while it wa
I once saw a pair of PROFESSIONAL? (really) tower installers put up 120 feet of Rohn 55....unguyed. I now know it can be done...but I wouldn't have wanted to be up there. Bill K4XS
You know how 25G legs get compressed by overtorquing the bolts? Well a professional showed me how you get the sections seperated.. you pull the bolts then climb up on the now unbolted section and roc
A Tower Jack seems to be a much safer method! Jon -- Jon Ogden NA9D (ex: KE9NA) Life Member: ARRL, NRA Member: AMSAT, DXCC http://www.qsl.net/ke9na "A life lived in fear is a life half lived."
One of the locals hired a guy who had done a number of CB installatons to install 100 ft of Rohn 25 and his VHF antennas. Apparently this CB'er had never heard of the TRAM method of raising antennas
This "professional" is insane! On Thu, 19 Sep 2002 09:44:54 -0500 "Dave LaBat" <dlabat@tcinternet.net> writes: ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FRO
They were worse than insane... how about totally stupid! Professional? Ha! NO WAY! Those are the idiots that give the decent safety minded tower professional a bad name! Betcha if their insurance car
So what could happen when he rocks the top section he is sitting on himself ?? Will it jump 6 inches with him on top and come loose.. ??? Come on... /Peter SM2CEW www.qsl.net/sm2cew http://www.mscomp
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The overlap between sections is closer to 3 - 3.5 inches. Tom N4KG ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet