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Subject: [TowerTalk] universal aluminium towers
From: N0OEL@aol.com (N0OEL@aol.com)
Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 00:29:05 EDT
I am not quire sure why people would have problems tipping a Universal Tower.

First, Universal towers should not be guyed.    They are made to have some 
sway in the wind and give.    

Second, I tip mine in place and lower it by myself.    I simply attach a pully
one third from the top of the tower.   I run a cable from my house roof 
(about 30 feet)
to the pully and down the tower to a winch attached to the tower at the base.
I crank the winch to let the cable out and the tower tips down (with beam and 
rotor)
nicely.    I crank the cable in and it pulls the tower back up to vertical.   
But,
I suggest you be careful as too much weight such as large stack beams on top 
of 
the tower could bend the tower.   My Univesal is 50 feet and have a Exp 14 
beam
and rotor and a couple of small antennas on it.   Works great.   I have a 26 
inch
base tapering to 14 inch top.

I have climbed my Universal for years and have never had a problem.    So does
everyone else I know that owns Universal.    

73
Mike
K0BUD 
in Minneapolis

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