The guys that put up my tower up back in 2001 had to put in a 21 foot piece
of mast in the top of the 120 foot tower. They first pulled up an old piece
of Rohn 25 and lashed it to the very top of the tower. Then they both
climbed up with one at the top of the lashed section and one at the top of
the tower. I guess that it gave them the leverage they needed so that they
were able to put it through the top section of the tower. It took them two
tries but they were able to do it without too much trouble. I was glad I
wasn't up there but they seemed real comfortable with that process.
I have pictures I think.
Bill W5VX
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From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of
Mickey Baker
Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2013 12:50 AM
To: K7LXC@aol.com
Cc: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Mast vs. R45G part deux
Hi, Steve,
I'm the pres of a club that does several take downs every year for widows of
SK's. Disassembly is evidently the inverse of assembly, but the fellow who
put it together isn't around sometimes to ask.
We ran into this a couple of years back with a 2" x 20' mast on 4 sections
of 45G. After removing two sections, the mast absolutely would not go
through the face. We ended up using the gine pole pole on the 2nd section
and a rope attached low enough on the mast to extract the mast through the
top. We thought it would go through the face, two, but it will not. We
demonstrated this on the ground after we took the tower down.
This issue cost us an hour or so of trying to remove the 2nd section over
the top of the mast - nope, sorry, there's only 12' or so of gin-pole, the
mast had to come out first.
73 and I can't believe I can actually help you for once!
Mickey
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 6:26 PM, <K7LXC@aol.com> wrote:
> Howdy, TowerTalkians --
>
> Tnx for your inputs but I think I need to describe what I want to
> do in more detail.
>
> There is a heavy 20' mast sticking out of the top of a pointy top
45G.
> What I want to know is if by lowering the mast down thru the middle
> of the tower, if at some point you can exit the mast thru the face of
> a tower section? I haven't tried it and doubt if it could be done
> but I wanted to see if someone in the group has done it or attempted
> it. Tnx.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve K7LXC
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Fort Lauderdale, FL
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and I will learn." *Teton Lakota, American Indian Saying.
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