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Subject: [TowerTalk] Raising mast?
From: w2up@itw.com (Barry Kutner)
Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 18:02:39 +0000
On 24 May 98, Dale L. Martin <kg5u@hal-pc.org> wrote:


> What if you placed a gin pole above the top of the tower, dropped
> the line down through the thrust bearing (TB), and then down
> through the mast to loop through the bottom (use a wirerope
> thimble to guide and protect the rope around the mast edge) and
> tie the rope to the low end of the mast?
> 

That is exactly what we did with my Rohn 45 and 20 ft mast. To 
pull up the mast from the bottom we used some BIG washers (that I 
seem to recall were delivered with the tower and hardware, but I 
don't remember what they were supposed to be used for, if anything) 
with the rope thru the hole of a few of them stacked, then tied.

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Barry Kutner, W2UP              Internet: w2up@itw.com
Newtown, PA         FRC         alternate: barry@w2up.wells.com

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