ARE towers

[fabricator]

Has anybody here ever gotten a price quote from ARE on a tower? Just wondering what kind of ballpark they are in, I sent them a email but prolly won't hear anything till monday.

[birdhouse]

dale-
unsure on cost, but as far as i know, ARE is no longer.  my buddy started that company, and it was sold/bought out/something.  now the company has morphed to azerius sp? turbines. 

i've seen one of their 120' towers with their 11.2? foot turbine on top.  honestly, the whole thing made me super nervous.  .125 wall 4" pipe with a very small guy footprint.  some of their guys attach from through bolts through the tower with tangs.  the turbine i saw had a short in the pendant cable due to rubbing on the through bolts. 

on the beefy side is their concrete.  i think it's 1.33 yards/footing. 

azerius may now offer the same towers, i haven't looked.  but the turbines look to be the same as the ARE ones with different badging. 

i'm guessing you're looking at a pre-fab tower so you don't have to pay to have an engineer sign off on one made by you?? 

adam

[fabricator]

Yeah pretty much, they still have a website. http://www.arewindtowers.com/ They have trade show apperances out to may 25 2011.

[SparWeb]

It's Xzeres now.   www.xzeres.com

[halfcrazy]

Fabricator I think the ARE tower sight is a different company than Roberts Abundant Renewable Energy "ARE" that is now Xveres. Those towers on that sight are pretty cool are you thinking of doing the free standing hydraulic tilt up tower?

[fabricator]

Yeah I am, they both have mechanical self raising towers but they have different offerings, and both have current dates on the websites, I sent emails to both so we shall see what comes from it.

[B529]

What type of tower you wanting?

[fabricator]

It's not so much what I want, it's what I need to satisfy the local wind tower ordinance, it requires a monopole, it also requires a Michigan engineers stamp.
I looked into Chinese hydraulic tilt monopoles but they will give no engineering specs or steel specs so no MI engineer will even touch the drawings they provide let alone stamp it.
ARE towers are built in China but they are built to American engineering specs, so, their tilt up monopoles are interesting.

[fabricator]

Well, my tower nightmare MIGHT be over, ARE is still ARE and very much open for business, my first choice was an 80 foot screw jack tilt up monopole, that price was pretty steep, the rep then suggested a monopole with a gin pole and I said I would also settle for a 60' tower, so at present I think I'm gonna end up with a 60' gin pole tilt up monopole with a MI stamped foundation print done by TEP (Tower Engineering Professionals) all at a price I can justify for having a conforming structure.

[Rover]

Ya know we gotta ask $$ ?

Not like we are asking your age or anything

[fabricator]

$4398 for the tower the hinged base plate and the template for the foundation ring, I'm supplying my own gin pole, the stamped foundation print from TEP will cost $1250.