pictures of things i've been up to

[getterdone]

most pictures explain themself.



this is my powersource for now.it's set up to run on veggy oil.



i use this 24v 90 amp alternator to charge my batt.
this picture shows 3128hrs but the timer had 2400hrs on it to start with.




this picture shows the base for my tower.






anchor point.




72' of tower welded up.

[DanB]

Looks like you're 'gettin her done'!~ nice, thanks for sharing.  Be fun to hear more detail about some of it if you have the time/are willing, especially the vegi oil setup on your Listeroid.

[DanB]

Looking at the pics it appears that maybe you have a motor on the lister for electric start via a friction drive?  (the little thing in the back with the arrow that shows direction of rotation.)

[getterdone]

yes, that is a 24v motor used to drive a grease pump to auto grease fittings on heavy equiptment [i think]. i converted it to fricton drive [start] the lister. found it in the junk. system is 24v, so it works great to start the lister.

[getterdone]

well, after studying the board i bought 3/8" cable, rated at 2880'lbs working load, for the guy wires on the upper most part of the tower.,

 i''ll use the 1/4" i bought for the lower guy wires.

the tower is 72' long.

i know some of you suggested i use 5/16"., but when i went to buy the cable, they didnt have enough of that size.

well, i don't think i will have a breakage issue. thats big stuff.

  i also went to the local welding supply and ordered a spool 250' of #6 welding cable. they didn't stock anything smaller than #4, so i had to get a hole spool of #6. $1.00 a foot [not to bad]. they wanted $2.00 a foot for #4.

any way i would have a hard time using #4 cause i plan on using the twist loc plug at the base of the tower. three #4's are quite large for the twist loc plug.