I have a modest tower (HDBX48) with the top of the mast at 56 ft. A local
rental place will rent me a lift that can be towed and once at the site is
mobile via a joystick so it cal be maneuvered to where ever it needs to be.
It's quite reasonable for a day (~$250) and can be rented for a minimum of a
half day.
Kim N5OP
"People that make music together cannot be enemies, at least as long as the
music lasts." -- Paul Hindemith
> On Apr 14, 2014, at 0:13, Larry Loen <lwloen@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Bucket trucks are also rentable. The guy who brought a crane to put up my
> tower will rent one to me if I want it. Given how reasonable his crane
> services were, it should be affordable.
>
> A colleague of mine back in Minnesota rented buckets (not necessarily
> trucks -- stand alone buckets as well) for rates he found affordable.
>
> I'd check it out before I bothered to purchase one.
>
>
>
> Larry WO7R
>
>
>
>> On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 7:23 PM, Jack Taylor <jack@n7oo.com> wrote:
>>
>> One possibility to explore is to obtain a used bucket truck. Awhile back
>> I noticed one on Craigs list that had a 55 foot
>> lift.
>>
>> Jack - n7oo
>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: Richard (Rick) Karlquist
>> Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2014 7:11 PM
>> To: Howard Rosen ; towertalk@contesting.com
>> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Hazer type elevator for non guyed 60foot towers?
>>
>>
>>> On 4/13/2014 2:46 PM, Howard Rosen wrote:
>>>
>>> see Hazer's can only work on guyed non tapered towers ,so is there any
>>> other combination of "non-guyed" towers and magical assemblies that can
>>> bring the antenna /rotor down to ground in its original horizontal
>>> position
>>>
>>> 73 Howard VE2AED
>>
>> Hazer used to make a tracked version called the
>> Voyager. I don't see why it wouldn't work
>> on a tapered tower, assuming you could fabricate
>> the correct mounting brackets for the tracks.
>>
>> I have also tried to brainstorm a "free space" hazer (FSH)
>> that would not attach to the tower at all but simply
>> be pulled up in "free space" at a slight angle from
>> the tower by cables attached to the top of the FSH
>> so it would hang down. A second cable would go through
>> a pulley mounted up on the tower such that it would pull
>> the bottom of the FSH horizontally into a receiver
>> mounted on the tower to immobilize it. A redundant
>> "safety cable" could be used to prevent accidents in
>> case the main lifting cable/winch failed. Has anyone
>> else experimented with this idea?
>>
>> Rick N6RK
>>
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