Rex:
Come here next!
73
k0dan
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From: Doug Scribner
Sent: August 22, 2013 11:28
To: Towertalk
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Thoughts on Tower lifting cable broken strands
That's an offer I wouldn't turn down...
Doug - K1ZO
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rex Turvin" <turvin2009@yahoo.com>
To: "Mickey Baker" <fishflorida@gmail.com>
Cc: "Ray Benny" <rayn6vr@cableone.net>; "TowerTalk"
<TowerTalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 12:21 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Thoughts on Tower lifting cable broken strands
Ray
Get the parts, pick a weekend, and I'll drive up and help you replace it.
I'll also bring my welder s and do your welding.
I like to drink Mtn Dew :)
73 NR6M
Rex
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On Aug 22, 2013, at 8:33 AM, Mickey Baker <fishflorida@gmail.com> wrote:
Ray,
The ONLY thing to do is to replace the cables. Get yourself an assortment
of wooden blocks and wedges and use a lever (fiberglass shovel handle,
crowbar) to arrange the tower as you need it. You and a helper should be
able to get the tower ready for lift if you're careful and plan the
installation.
If the damage was caused the way you describe, it is difficult to know
for
sure if the remaining strands are intact. A cable break while the tower
is
extended would destroy your tower and most everything on it.
Good luck and 73,
Mickey N4MB
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 3:21 AM, Ray Benny <rayn6vr@cableone.net> wrote:
I'm in a dilemma.
I purchase a used TM-490 90 ft Sky Needle and recently found some of the
5/16", 7 X 19 aircraft cable lifting cable strands broken. The tower is
on
the ground and not been in the vertical position for a number of years.
The
problem, apparently there was some gas torch cutting done nearby and
splatter landed on the cable. This molten metal landed on the pull up
cable
causing it to burn and sever 2 - 3 strands in one area, and another 3 -
4
strands 6 inches higher up the cable. The cable overall is otherwise in
very good condx with no wear marks. It might have been replaced prior
and
the tower has been laying on the ground ever since?
The best and right thing to do is to replace the cable. But, I have been
going through my options:
#1 - Do the cable replacing myself. I have found the cable and cable
pulling grip for less that $200. The major problem is that this is a
3200
lbs tabular tower and not easy to move around. I would need to rent
small
boom truck or forklift and some other misc working hardware to pull the
sections apart. It would not be easy, but feel I could do the job.
#2 - Hire someone to come here and do the job. This can run into a 4 - 5
thousand dollar cost.
#3 - Transport the tower to California and have it restring by the tower
company who made it long ago. I've checked commercial transport rates,
r/t
shipment and cable replacement cost is more than option #2.
#4 - Do nothing and live with a few broken strands.
*At this point I am looking for thoughts, experiences and/or
semi-professional thoughts on option #4 - do nothing*. I've had a one
experienced tower person say that 6 - 8 broken strands out of 133 is
nothing.
Again, I know the proper/safe thing to do is replace the cable, but how
about doing nothing and using the tower as is?
Tnx,
Ray,
N6VR
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