Yeah...can you imagine a Harbor Freight (Horror Freight) winch doing this?
Yikes!
Chris
On Dec 4, 2015, at 7:03 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
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> On Dec 2, 2015, at 10:16 PM, Ken K6MR wrote:
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>> 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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