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1. [Towertalk] WARNING: Do not try this at home! (score: 1)
Author: K7LXC@aol.com (K7LXC@aol.com)
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 08:29:21 EDT
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
/archives//html/Towertalk/2002-09/msg00650.html (8,390 bytes)

2. [Towertalk] WARNING: Do not try this at home! (score: 1)
Author: Cqtestk4xs@aol.com (Cqtestk4xs@aol.com)
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 09:11:31 EDT
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
/archives//html/Towertalk/2002-09/msg00651.html (7,982 bytes)

3. [Towertalk] WARNING: Do not try this at home! (score: 1)
Author: dlabat@tcinternet.net (Dave LaBat)
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 09:44:54 -0500
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
/archives//html/Towertalk/2002-09/msg00652.html (9,371 bytes)

4. [Towertalk] WARNING: Do not try this at home! (score: 1)
Author: na9d@speakeasy.net (Jon Ogden)
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 10:06:35 -0500
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."
/archives//html/Towertalk/2002-09/msg00654.html (10,608 bytes)

5. [Towertalk] WARNING: Do not try this at home! (score: 1)
Author: n4kg@juno.com (n4kg@juno.com)
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 10:00:39 -0600
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
/archives//html/Towertalk/2002-09/msg00655.html (10,416 bytes)

6. [Towertalk] WARNING: Do not try this at home! (score: 1)
Author: k3hx@juno.com (tttt ccccc)
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 18:26:24 -0400
This "professional" is insane! On Thu, 19 Sep 2002 09:44:54 -0500 "Dave LaBat" <dlabat@tcinternet.net> writes: ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FRO
/archives//html/Towertalk/2002-09/msg00681.html (10,687 bytes)

7. [Towertalk] WARNING: Do not try this at home! (score: 1)
Author: k4bet@bellsouth.net (Paul McInnish - Home)
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 18:54:00 -0400
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
/archives//html/Towertalk/2002-09/msg00694.html (11,978 bytes)

8. [Towertalk] WARNING: Do not try this at home! (score: 1)
Author: K7LXC@aol.com (K7LXC@aol.com)
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 19:02:56 EDT
Jeez - I'd have taken the elevator out of there immediately! DOWN, PLEASE! Cheers, Steve K7LXC TOWER TECH
/archives//html/Towertalk/2002-09/msg00696.html (8,478 bytes)

9. [Towertalk] WARNING: Do not try this at home! (score: 1)
Author: llindblom@juno.com (Larry L Lindblom)
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 00:38:42 +0000
And, if this was a commercial job I think OSHA could have nailed them with a hefty fine.
/archives//html/Towertalk/2002-09/msg00700.html (13,636 bytes)

10. [Towertalk] WARNING: Do not try this at home! (score: 1)
Author: sm2cew@telia.com (Peter Sundberg)
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 14:20:02 +0000
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
/archives//html/Towertalk/2002-09/msg00728.html (13,498 bytes)

11. [Towertalk] WARNING: Do not try this at home! (score: 1)
Author: wa3gin@erols.com (David Jordan)
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 10:37:12 -0400
Thank God this tower guy didn't decide to be a Brain surgeon or Doctor...imagine how he would operate on you...YIKES
/archives//html/Towertalk/2002-09/msg00731.html (9,136 bytes)

12. [Towertalk] WARNING: Do not try this at home! (score: 1)
Author: FireBrick" <w9ol@billnjudy.com (FireBrick)
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 10:22:45 -0500
He 'WAS' a brain surgeon till he went into something that paid better..... -- Original Message -- From: "David Jordan" <wa3gin@erols.com> To: "Peter Sundberg" <sm2cew@telia.com> Cc: "Paul McInnish -
/archives//html/Towertalk/2002-09/msg00732.html (10,747 bytes)

13. [Towertalk] WARNING: Do not try this at home! (score: 1)
Author: n4kg@juno.com (n4kg@juno.com)
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 18:24:31 -0600
The overlap between sections is closer to 3 - 3.5 inches. Tom N4KG ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet
/archives//html/Towertalk/2002-09/msg00745.html (15,143 bytes)


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