I guess my thinking was I wanted the gin pole to tilt also.
That means that it goes through 180 degrees of rotation from
horizontal to horizontal. I spent a lot of time thinking about
it. I'm sure it was worth it to make sure extra forces introduced
in the up and down are not magnified . Again it is designed to fold
against the tower when down. And then unfold to vertical and then pull
the tower up and it will end up horizontal on the opposite side. I have
to supply a small additional gin pole for the first pull to pull up the
main gin pole and then it pulls up the tower.
I did not want to look at the gin pole up in the air if I had the
tower down. In the past I only had the tower up while I was there,
it only took about 10 minutes to put up. This set up maybe different.
Leave it up and rely on the breaking by shorting it out? I don't
know about that. I still want it to go up and down with out a hitch.
Lightning is going to be a real concern.
Thanks again, I am having a hard time sleeping trying to come up
with all the answers before I do something wrong.