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Re: [TowerTalk] Ways To Tilt Over a Light Tower ?

To: richard@karlquist.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Ways To Tilt Over a Light Tower ?
From: Alan Zack <k7acz@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:08:45 -0800
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Tall 40 ft towers work better than short 40 ft towers.

Rick Karlquist wrote:

douglas.snowden@med.va.gov said:

I have a short 40 foot aluminum tower that I use for experimentation - At
the moment
it is serving as a 1/4 wave vertical for 80m. I has 26 ft of aluminum
tubing
sticking out
of the top.  It is insulated from ground and is sitting hinged on pressure
treated wood  legs
buried in a small amount of concrete. I would like to tilt it over easily
so
I can play


See my web site:

http://www.n6rk.com/falling_derrick_gme/falling_derrick_gme.html

for photos of my 50 ft 175 lb aluminum tower tilting up.
Instead of a 6x6 as a derrick, make a tee out of 2x12s.
The main pitfall is the derrick buckling.

Rick N6Rk

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