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Too much excitement this morning | 14 comments (14 topical, editorial)

Re: Too much excitement this morning (3.00 / 0) (#6)
by Ungrounded Lightning Rod on Fri Jun 6th, 2008 at 01:33:50 PM MST
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Try this next time: Get a pulley riding the uppermost guy wire on the side opposing your gin pole and run a rope from it to a pulley at the tower base and from there through another pulley at the base to where you're truckin' it down.

Pulling on the rope should first run the pulley up the guy wire and then pull at near right angles near the middle of it. This gives INCREDIBLE leverage - at least until the guy wire is no longer very straight - by which angle the tower should be on its way down, hurricane or no.

You can use a similar trick to pull a stuck car out of a hole - an inch at a time - with one finger pushing on the middle of a tow cable.

Just hanging a goodly weight as high as you can reach on one of the opposing guy wires will do a similar thing, though with much less strength.

Re: Too much excitement this morning (3.00 / 0) (#7)
by JW on Fri Jun 6th, 2008 at 06:28:27 PM MST
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Wow,

I had not realized, that I have been still logged in, from the other day.

I was planning to go out on the boat this weekend and if the wind dies down some, may still do that.

With, 20mph gusts, thru-out the day(today) makes the seas very choppy. I would use a 'redundant band-brake' on any windturbine, that I set up off-of the coast of the ocean in my area.

Were now going into hurricane season, on the southern east coast down here in Miami FL. If I actually had a wind turbine set-up on one of the barrier island/keys down here, I would be sure to build a vertical drum band brake, of-off the rear-rotor on any (dual-rotor)machine that I would raise.

In this way, as I made it to the location(by boat) of such a wind turbine tower(providing that I was not there at the time), I would have a positive way to stop rotation of the mill, before I set the tower down.

After the hurricane warning passed, go back out there and raise it again.

Ive been pondering the ideal of starting a 'Wind-Power Club' in my area. Just thinking out loud.

JW

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Re: Too much excitement this morning (3.00 / 0) (#8)
by Ungrounded Lightning Rod on Fri Jun 6th, 2008 at 06:59:45 PM MST
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Make that: "Get a pulley riding the uppermost guy wire on the side opposing your gin pole and run a rope from it through another pulley at the base to where you're truckin' it down."

I somehow managed to type the pulley-at-the-tower-base in there twice. B-(

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Too much excitement this morning | 14 comments (14 topical, 0 editorial)

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