Dan & Bill --
Thanks for your responses.
Bill -- I had a feeling KC1XX
didn't use a $15 come-along. I don't have a juma,
but I can buy 3 guy grips to accomplish the same thing.
Hank --
I keep forgetting that I have a friend who owns a sign
business. I think I'll give him a call.
Tom
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Hank (Dan Arney) said
>Just for the safety and ease a crane is by far the safest way to go and
>it is done in and out in a hour, 1 1/2 for figuring in fumbels and
>getting used to a crane. So 2 hrs. including set up KD. Maybe$200.00 .
>Hank
Bill Fisher said:
>
>Here's how it was done...
>
>Raise antenna to just below set of guys. Boom is directly under one of
>the guy attachment points. Next, he took a HIGH QUALITY come-a-long and
>attached it under the boom to the tower. He attached the come-a-long to
>the guy wire with a juma (something I had never seen before). He then
>cranked on the come-a-long until there was slack at the normal guy
>attachment point. He unhooked preform for the guy and raised the antenna
>past this point by a foot. Then he reattached the guy wire and unhooked
>the come-a-long. We did this 3 times to raise it to 105 feet.
>
>73
>
>Bill
>
>
>
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