There are TWO bolts in each tower leg at the base.
You must remove BOTH from the 'near' leg and one from each of the
other legs in order to do what you describe.
Don
N8DE
Quoting John Kemker <john@kemker.org>:
> Thanks, Don!
>
> I have 5 sections of 25G already in my possession. Three of them will
> most likely be mounted next to the detached garage to provide support
> for a 2m and 70cm beam, as well as the VHF/UHF vertical. The other two,
> I am considering placing approximately 20ft. away from the HD21-50 with
> part of the base in concrete. The idea is to use the 20ft. section as a
> derrick with a pulley at top and a winch at the bottom. (Or, just
> another pulley at the bottom and run line to the winch on my Suburban.)
> when I need to lower or raise the tower, hook up the winch, and pull it
> up. If I'm reading the drawings correctly, to lower the tower, I would
> hook up the cable, pull the pin/bolt out of the leg closest to the
> derrick, then use the winch to control the drop of the tower.
> Theoretically, I'd be able to halt the tower short of crunching any
> antennas and work on them from there, using a ladder.
>
> n8de@thepoint.net wrote:
>> John,
>> Having erected many Universal aluminum towers over the years, let me
>> try to answer your questions.
>>
>> 1. Climbing the tower is not a problem, just don't do it in a heavy
>> wind as the added windload may overload the tower.
>>
>> 2. The easiest and best way to erect the tower is as you have said:
>> mount the rotor, mast, antennas, etc .. and then pull/push it up.
>> Pulling works best IF you have a clear path for a vehicle, but I
>> erected my first 60' tower with monobanders by having the neighborhood
>> guys help me push and pull it up simultaneously.
>>
>> It's not necessary to lay the tower back down to do antenna work IF
>> you can climb safely and use proper methodology for doing so.
>>
>> When calculating your antenna windload, remember to include the mast, etc.
>>
>> I am about to erect 6 more of these towers!
>> Have fun!
>>
>> Don
>> N8DE
>>
>>
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