Thank you for the picture !
I have been following this thread because, like others I thought the original
poster was talking about the "Tower Jack" that is used to separate tower
sections that have become stuck. I have been involved with towers since 1966
when I joined the Military and installed and maintained towers literally all
over the world in my 20 years with Uncle Sam's World Wide Travel Club. I became
a Ham in 1991 and installed a few for myself and other local Hams. I even
worked at Texas Towers for a while and Gerald taught me a lot of things that I
had not encountered before, but I will have to say I have never seen the
pictured "Tower Jack". Like others, I have used a variety of 'other' things
such as Tractor Mounted Back Hoes, a Tow Truck and Purpose Built Erection
Fixtures to accomplish the same thing.
I presently have two sections of Rohn 20G with a home made bracket on the top
to push hinged base towers up.
I guess the day is not a waste when you learn some thing new.
Clint - W5CPT
----- Original Message -----
From: Jeff Griffin
To: towertalk@contesting.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 7:49 AM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Morrison Tower Jack
Located here is a picture of a Morrison Tower Jack......
http://home.comcast.net/~kb2m/jack.jpg
The companion prop (not shown) is nothing more then a tower jack without
the jack.
I setup an album of pictures from my visit yesterday, but can't figure out
how to allow anonymous viewing in Comcast Snapfish. Anyone know how? I'm an
amateur retired person, only been retired 4 months, so I could use a little
help.
Anyway a picture is worth a thousand words. This is a light duty jack,
Bill the owner of the company said it is used for towers up to 40 foot or
so. The heavy duty jacks that I used to use before they were stolen would
work up to a 70 footer.
I asked Bill who manufactured the jacks, he said he bought them used from
someone getting out of the tower business. So the manufacturer is unknown.
Looking at them they sorta look like surplus military. The heavy overbuilt,
over engineered look. I don't think I will attempt to build a set.
I think we have beat tower jacks to death, no more posts from me on the
subject....
73 Jeff kb2m
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