My tower and gin pole

[jmk]

 I had a couple of friends help me stand the first 20' 8" section. It is 3" od, and 2" id. We raised it up by hand. Then I ajusted the side guy wires, and let it back down to see how the wires play was. The tower is set on uneven ground. With the tower down there is about 10" of slack on one side, and the other side draped over some liloc bushes just fine. I used this section for a gin pole to raise the actual 26' gin pole. The guys tighten up as the tower goes up so it works fine. I raised the gin pole by mysef with a wich on the tower and the riding mower on the gin pole. I ajusted the guy wires for the gin pole as it went up. It rides both sides of the 5/8" bolt at the hing just about perfect. The guys realy didn't hold it. I added the top 12" section and stood it up. Then ajusted the top guys. The pipe is stong enough to stand with no guys on the top for the first lift. I am waiting for my welding cables I bought from copper cable guy on ebay. Then I can finnish the last raiseing of the test tower, hopefuly. I put a block and tackle on the gin pole it ate up the rest of my cable 120'. The tractor still worked for raiseing the tower, but the cable is a little short. I had to drive up and over the hill as the cable got shorter from lowering the tower. With the mower on the hill I will have trouble backing up, so I will have to use my truck. With the block and tackle it allows me to use the same side as the tower to pull it up. I have a long stretch of down hill pulling that way. I run out of real estate the other way. It seems kind of werd pulling the opposite way the tower is raiseing.    

[jmk]

 I took some pictures.

[jmk]

I am sorry I thought I shrunk these down far enough.

[jmk]

 I don't know why theses show up so big? They are the sam size as the other pictures I have posted before, and they fit perfect. Like my guy wire post.

[jmk]

 I checked my files and they all are shrunk to about 600 pixels. Somehow they loaded at 1200?

[jimovonz]

You missed resizing http://www.otherpower.com/images/scimages/4094/tower_top_up_2.JPG. It is 1536 pixels wide. The default html that displays the other images is set to display them at 80% of the column width regardless of their actual pixel dimension. Unfortunately that one image forces the column to be wider that you would normally expect. Resizing and uploading that one image would fix the problem. So would have editing the html resulting from the <insert> operation to specify an absolute display size rather than a relative one.

[jmk]

[SmoggyTurnip]

Very nice job.

I love to se pictures of towers going up.

Keep us posted.

By why does it look like there is a ladder

attached to the tower in one picture.

[jmk]

 The one that looks like a ladder is my gin pole. Its 26' tall. I reinforced it so when I go with the full size tower it wont bend. This pipe is 400 lbs per 21'. I never waighed my machine but it must be close to 300 lbs on top of it all.