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Idea for a home-made tilting tower | 13 comments (13 topical, editorial)
Re: Idea for a home-made tilting tower (3.00 / 0) (#6)
by thefinis (thefinis@hotmail.com) on Thu Apr 24th, 2008 at 04:59:51 AM MST
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http://www.fieldlines.com/story/2006/7/26/135141/023

Has the pics etc of the pole tower like what you are wanting to build.

Finis
Texas born and bred



Re: Idea for a home-made tilting tower (3.00 / 0) (#7)
by scorman (scorman@stny.rr.com) on Thu Apr 24th, 2008 at 06:19:03 AM MST
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I am a fan of tilt-over tower, but mine will be guyed.
Saw this free standing 65 footer in action:


The two 30 foot base pipes are 10 feet in the ground, so pivot point is 20 feet up.
It was counterbalanced at the base with a billet shoved inside the bottom 6" pipe.
A boat winch cranked it up and down in about three minutes ...my wife could handle it!

Also saw a guyed 60 foot Rohn lattice tower with similar tilting mechanism.
I have the engineering print and some pics if anyone is interested:
http://s145.photobucket.com/albums/r203/scorman1/Foldover%20tower/

Stew Corman from sunny Endicott

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Re: Idea for a home-made tilting tower (3.00 / 0) (#8)
by valterra on Thu Apr 24th, 2008 at 08:07:00 AM MST
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Thanks guys!  Those are exactly what I'm talking about - except I am finding that the square lumber is easier to come by.  But that's not a functional difference, except like I said, square ones would help prevent rotating.  Don't know how big of a deal that really would be.

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Idea for a home-made tilting tower | 13 comments (13 topical, 0 editorial)

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