New tower progress....

[zguy1243]

Spent the day today with a small crew installing my 120 foot 25G. We got up to the 83 foot mark today before getting too tired. I hope to reach the 120 foot mark sometime this week and start running hardline and mounting antennas. It takes a little time getting the guys hooked up and tensioned. We have had great luck stacking tower sections. I pre-fit and the sections before assembly. Here is a pic as we reached the 83 foot mark. Will post more pics as I get it all up.


Jody

 

[Junior08]

How's the weather up there?

 

[123]

Where is the scantenna?

 

[zguy1243]

Where is the scantenna?

over in the ghetto on a crack house....where it belongs ..

 

[ShawnInPaso]

Beautiful!

Must be quite a workout getting up that thing.

 

[k9rzz]

Sweet!

What's going up there and what kind of hardline are you using?

 

[Signal3and2]

I always wondered, how do you build it that high without a crane? I'm sure it's simple but I've never seen it done or even bothered to ask anybody about it until now.

 

[Mikey54]

Easy way is with a Gin Pole. It clamps on to the top section, and extends above it. There is a pulley on the top, so you basically haul the next section of tower up, and bolt it on. Take off the Gin Pole, climb to the top of the section you just put on, repeat as necessary.

 

[123]

They say that the scantenna is the best ever made..............................LOL
You must put one on that tower other wise you wont be able to hear crap!!!

 

[W4KRR]

Easy way is with a Gin Pole. It clamps on to the top section, and extends above it. There is a pulley on the top, so you basically haul the next section of tower up, and bolt it on. Take off the Gin Pole, climb to the top of the section you just put on, repeat as necessary.

If you use a gin pole to hoist the next tower section up, then how do you raise the gin pole to the top of the new section? Carry it? Seems like it would be too heavy and cumbersome.

 

[blueangel-eric]

I wish someone would make a video of how to put up these towers. I hear about Gin Poles but i've never got to even see what they look like let alone watch it in action. How does people lift and install all those big antennas? Even the big HF ones?
Eric Burris kc0ldt

 

[Mikey54]

If you use a gin pole to hoist the next tower section up, then how do you raise the gin pole to the top of the new section? Carry it? Seems like it would be too heavy and cumbersome.

You don't carry it so much as lift it to the next location. With mine, the top is where my next spot to hook it is so I just climb up the newly installed section, hook on my safetuy harness, and bring it up hand over hand, and clamp it to the tower.

 

[W4KRR]

You don't carry it so much as lift it to the next location. With mine, the top is where my next spot to hook it is so I just climb up the newly installed section, hook on my safetuy harness, and bring it up hand over hand, and clamp it to the tower.

That's more or less what I figured, I've just never seen it done. I agree with blueangel; I would like to see a video of a tower being erected, I'm sure it would be interesting.