You don't have to climb up and down if you use a rope with a hook and
just fish for the section you have placed in a star configuration around
the base. Powered winches pulling up sections for a light tower have
probably caused more problems that we ever hear about.
Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ
On 12/4/2015 10:03 AM, Mike Ryan wrote:
Chris, I have read a number of these posts from 'supermen' who have
put their towers up solo. Personally, I think it is not only risky but
kinda silly. Why take the risk...ANY risk for the sake of this hobby?
If you can't find someone to help you pull up a section of ROHN 25,
then don't do it on FLAG DAY, or GROUNDHOG'S DAY or whatever...wait
for a day when you have some help. That way when you need to have the
NEXT section sent up, there is someone down there to tie it on and you
don't have to CLIMB BACK DOWN to do it. Sure a lot less work when you
think about it ... and safer to oot. -Mike
-----Original Message----- From: Chris
Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2015 10:10 AM
To: towertalk@contesting.com reflector
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Erecting tower sections solo
What scares me about using a winch with a remote control is having the
remote break, get stuck, or otherwise fail to stop winding in cable.
Then the tower gets pulled down with you on the top!
Chris
KF7P
On Dec 2, 2015, at 10:16 PM, Ken K6MR wrote:
Using a small electric winch has a safety advantage over other
methods: if something gets stuck they will stall rather than break
the lifting cable (or worse yet, pull the tower over). If you pay
attention to the noise it makes you can detect a problem almost
instantly and stop before something bends or breaks.
Ken K6MR
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