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Re: [TowerTalk] Finally got my crank up tilt over

To: Grant Saviers <grants2@pacbell.net>, "towertalk@contesting.com" <towertalk@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Finally got my crank up tilt over
From: dw <bw_dw@fastmail.fm>
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 13:04:45 -0800
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Thanks Grant.
Very comprehensive answer...full of "been-there-done-that"  wisdom!  
:-]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016, at 11:37 AM, Grant Saviers wrote:
> Used prices are all over the map - from "free, you take it down and 
> away, and btw it is hidden in the rear of the house and needs a crane to 
> remove it", to estate sales $500 to $1000 for a 54' or 70' manual 
> crankup, to $5k+ for motorized like a UST 589, accessible and on the 
> ground.  Then, how do you pick it up and move it?  Is it 500# or 3000#?  
> What equipment can you rent, borrow, and will work on the site?  Who can 
> operate the equipment safely and rig the tower for travel?  Then 
> questions about what needs fixed - frozen bearings in the sheaves (I 
> paid $30 ea on ebay for NOS as no longer made), new cables needed, new 
> winch,  might need regalvanized, is there a base with it ($500 if still 
> made plus shipping), is the manufacturing outfit still in business and 
> will they supply wet stamp drawings if a permit is needed, will a local 
> weld shop make a base, etc?
> 
> All of this adds up, so sometimes cheap is not inexpensive. However, 
> there are often very good deals if you have the resources to manage the 
> logistics and know what problems need solved.
> 
> Remember also, that a new tower arrives on a long haul flatbed truck 
> which you must unload, so those challenges are the same for "new".
> 
> Grant KZ1W
> 
> On 2/17/2016 7:58 AM, dw wrote:
> > Whats a common selling price for a used crank up or tilt over tower?
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 16, 2016, at 01:28 PM, Ken K6MR wrote:
> >> I bought a used TH354 as my first tower in 1967. This was one of a series
> >> of guyed crankups that Tri-Ex made in the 60s and a little into the
> >> 1970s. The series was the T, TH, H, and HS, in heights from 37 feet
> >> (-237) to 122 feet (-7122). Each version used combinations of the same
> >> tower sections depending on how tall and what section widths you wanted.
> >>   I was in the tower business in the early 1970s and saw a number of them.
> >> They were much cheaper than the self supporting models. But not nearly as
> >> strong.
> 
-- 
 Bw_dw@fastmail.net

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