How are you raising your towers?

[imsmooth]

I have a 42' tower and I use a hand-cranked winch in order to raise it.  For those with towers 50' and higher, what are you using?

[Hilltopgrange]

Hi,
     I use the winch on the front of my old 20 year old Land Rover, sometimes however I just use the Land Rover in 1st low with the diffs locked never had a problem since I started using this method. I use to use the el-cheapo 12v winches from ebay but I had a couple of scares with them.

Russell

[electronbaby]

I use winches. Here is one of my hydraulic units on the back of the truck

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uggL7MDw2Kw

RoyR

[bzrqmy]

I don't have good video of mine going up yet, but here she is coming down.

http://www.youtube.com/user/bzrqmy#p/a/u/0/9MVItZP_vks

[nekit]

Here's what I'm planning on using.  Look at the pictures in post 3.  It's a 10,000# winch on a hitch receptacle.  I can take it in out of the weather and use it on my truck for other projects.  When I need to winch the tower I just put it in place and pull up a vehicle or battery for power.

http://fieldlines.com/board/index.php/topic,144309.0.html

[Boss]

We've raised and lowered ours with our trashy old Blazer several times.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oca6DTmTIWM
I don't remember which episode it was but we did make an important realisation, keep the chain tied with bailing wire! If the hook on the chain came off, geese
Happy erecting

[wpowokal]

I use a Tirfor winch for mine (OK Chinese copy), careful control and easy to use.

allan

[freejuice]

I have a 65 foot tower and use a grip hoist/tirfor I bought at
Northern Tool...its also Chinese in origin but it does the job....this is one time when I cant complain about quality.

http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200419695_200419695