Tower Pictures [big pics beware on dialup]

[TomW]

She is 45 feet tall with a 10 by 10 foot base:

[wpowokal]

Pleased to see that the bottom 10' of the tower ladder is missing Tom, should stop you climbing it too often.

You said origionally that you were going to put a battery shed inside the base. This I assume means you are not going to make it a tilt up?

regards Allan

[TomW]

Allan;

Well, actually I intend it to be fixed and hopefully I can stick a catwalk up top like you see on many water pumpers here. However, I am still gathering ideas and nothing is set in stone. It seems like it is a bit heavy for easy tilting up. I have access to a climbing harness so rigging stuff after its up should be safer than holding on with one hand and wrenching with the other two. I also hope to hang more than one mill from it something like one kilowatt range mill and a couple of tape drive mills.

Just dreaming until it dries up enough to move it.

Cheers.

TomW

[RatOmeter]

From your pictures, it looks like some of the diagonal cross-wires (stiffeners) are broken.  You should probably fix those before trying to set it up.  They are critical to the strength of the tower.

The old Aermotor at my Dad's place had a couple that were broken for a long time; a few years back a storm came through and straight line winds caused one of the 'legs' to buckle (gotta fix it before it falls down).

I guess I should give it credit for toughness, though.  As you might be able to see in the picture below, the old barn didn't fare as well in that same wind.

-RatOmeter

[TomW]

Rat-o-meter;

Heh, not broken "cut during removal" and thats on the list of to-dos.

Cheers.

TomW

[wpowokal]

Tom, Mine is only 40' but tilts up very easy even with my heavy genie on top. I could post some pics of tilting if it helps.

Allan

[Norm]

   I was wondering if anyone uses counter weights on a tilt up tower?

             ( :>) Norm.

[TomW]

Allan;

Tom, Mine is only 40' but tilts up very easy even with my heavy genie on top. I could post some pics of tilting if it helps.

Yes, please do! Still undecided on final installation.

Cheers.

TomW

[wpowokal]

Tom pics + Dunlite tower info if its readable.

The base is 4"x2" C channel "c" down, there are 1" threaded rods on each corner, for leveling. I realise yours is a 4 leg but same principles apply.

The holes for the concrete were dug with the ditchwitch which has a 2' boom so they are no deeper than that, and are irregular in shape and it has not yet blowen over nor do I expect it to. As already said by others foundations to suit your situation.

We use a tiefor to hoist it up but its very easy.

allan

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[TomW]

Allan;

Thanks. I am not sure what a "tiefor" is? If I went this route I believe I would use a winch or a pickup to drag it up. The pickup I have.

Thanks again.

Cheers.

TomW

[wpowokal]

Tom, the tiefor, probally not spelt right is one of those hand winches that one runs a 10mm steel cable through. depending on which lever one uses it draws it in or lets it out, all very controlled.

Allan

[Barnac]

Hi wpowokal,

I may be wrong but I guess what you are refering to is a "tirefort". Tirefort is a french word that refers to a traction device by cable designed for mobile employments and semi-mobile employment.  This term is often/usually used to design manual winch.  

If my french is still good enough, if not it's very sad because it means I can't speak or write any language properly...sig :-)

[TomW]

Guys;

Thanks for the replies. In the midwestern U.S. we call that a "come along" or "hand winch". I happen to have a couple of those too so if or when it dries up enough and I get it here, serviced and ready to go I should have no problem getting it up in the air.

Cheers.

TomW.

[Barnac]

Just to had a little bit, "tirefort" is made out of two words "tire" wich is Pull and "fort" wich is strong wich lead us to Strong pull :-)

barnac

[wpowokal]

Bugger, In Oz we actually call these things TURFORS but my FRENCH mate who is in the pics has corrected me, yes we are all talking about the same thing. Actually sorry I mentioned it at all.

Allan