I was an Outside Wire an Antenna Maintenance installer in the USAF. Got to travel the world installing and maintaining antennas and towers of all sorts. I'm 60 and don't care for climbing anymore. I've been a ham since 1973. I won't mess with anything much over 60 feet, now.

where did you buy the gin pole from?

A Gin Pole is very handy if you don't have a ground crew. I watched a video on YT of guy muscling his tower sections up the tower and raising it above his head to mount. I would never done it that way. With a ground crew the Gin Pole makes erecting the section much easier. I agree with James Searcy's assessment. I always dab never sieze on the leg tops. Makes sliding the next section onto the legs of the lower section easier and much easier when taking down. Never had to use the Tower Jack. If it works for you though, great. My climbing are over, now. - KB8AMZ

@SamSnyderSr

4 жыл бұрын

37lbs per section, easy to pull up, and sit on the section below. Go up very easy and fast. Done many that way with 25g. drift pin lines the holes, never hammer the bolts thru.

If you use 2 or 3 drift punches to align the holes at the same time (instead of that hand jack) the job will go much easer and much , much faster. Enjoyed the video 73 Leo

Never grab with your hands over the bolt holes while pushing section down into place. It shears a piece of your skin off your hand from inside the bolt hole. I learned that the hard way.

@JonnyJetPilot

3 ай бұрын

I was thinking the same thing…. “Don’t put your hand around it!”

These things are extremely universal. Most of my county's warning sirens are mounted on these towers with anti climb at the bottom

@CCWP0251

4 жыл бұрын

Universal indeed. I have 10/11 meter, VHF, and TV antennas all on one tower. Including junction box, coax, conduit, and grounding. It's full, but it works well!

I love these towers to put my tv antennas up on to get better tv reception for my tv sets.

Nice solar panels on the house! Thanks for the video

Great video thanks for taking me along.

buen video, yo tambien tuve ese problema de el acomodo de los orificios para los tornillos de cada tubo de la torre, por esa razón empece a fabricar torres y ese problema ya esta resuelto...

No gloves or hard hats? I added a loop of wire to the top of my gin pole so when I need to move it up, I hook it to the top of the tower - then slide the mount up and clamp it - then slide the pipe up. de N8DP

What are specifications of the pipes. And to what hieght is the tower

How do you find info about snow and ice loading, wind tolerance, and equipment loading? Also how tall can you go before you need guy wires for one of those 25G towers?

That was dangerously done

@OLDMANGAMING1970

Жыл бұрын

yes it was. never did use his safety harness properly

How did you guys do the foundation for the tower? I want to put one of these up at my house and am curious.

@you2tooyou2too

9 ай бұрын

As I remember, there were instructions for the dimensions of the tower & guy foundations, as a function of the tower height & soil conditions, and also local building codes might apply to your local municipality.

Where did you get the gin pole?

Gin pole mean which pipe is it?

This makes me wonder why I did not put those last 3 sections on my tower.

When was the antenna installation completed? I was wondering because you lifted the mast with nothing attached.

@rowdyraider556

9 жыл бұрын

Mark Felty went back the next week and used a much lighter aluminum mast. Also ended up guying it as this tower was installed for satellite communications in order to keep it still.

bro whats the size of the pipe?..and the thickness also

wow...you also have photo voltaic....nice

Putting up a tower is easy. You just keep adding sections until you run out. Then you go buy some more. ;-)

@TexasRailfan2008

4 жыл бұрын

Nathan Kayle good advice

Is this why we are know'n has Hams. Good job the shells ain't dropping close by and you have a priority 1 message to send in a few seconds time. Nice tower. Hope it stays up ok

When you put up or take down a tower, you do not tie on to the very top of the section you are installing or taking down. The section of tower is 10 feet and normally so is your gin pole, so you do not have the ability to take it higher, as what happened on putting up the sections in this video.

@you2tooyou2too

9 ай бұрын

I should have said, "Attach the gin pole just below the top of the existing segment, & attach the gin line a few feet above the center of the new segment. That should make it easy (for you or your crew) to lift it higher than necessary (& tie it off if you have no ground crew to hold it there for you), while you swing it around the gin pole, and align it with the existing segment legs.

Hi, where can I get the gin pole like that one? and or a blueprint so I can make one?

@you2tooyou2too

5 жыл бұрын

w9iix.com/ii00008.htm, but there are probably other sources, and they are easy to make.

What is that Contraption called you are using to lift the tower up as you go

@you2tooyou2too

5 жыл бұрын

That 'gin-pole' consists of 4 parts: a tower clamp. That slides & clamps along a segment-long length of 2" pipe, and is clamped to near the top of the assembled tower. A pulley cap permanently attached to the top of the pipe. And a rope twice as long as the tower, tied thru the pipe into a big loop. The knot is where you attach the segments to be raised.

What was the Overall Height?

oooooh hell no. I am a big wussy. Seeing your shadow on the ground gave me chills.

Too bad you sped up the video when you were using the Gin Pole to bring up the third section of the tower, that's the part I wanted too see. Right now I just climb the tower with the section attached to me and lift it up onto the previous section, very strenuous.

@franciscontant7830

7 жыл бұрын

you can slow the video if you want

@SScheidt

7 жыл бұрын

I know, It doesn't help though, the video gets all choppy when you slow it down. The camera is all over the place as well. Too bad, this had more educational potential. Still a good video though, can't complain unless I do it better : )

11:00 That neighbors back yard with the flag by the fire pit he will have a nice view of your new tower and antenna from his back porch how do they like it?

Hope they never plan on taking that tower down, if you notice, they spray painted the sweg end of the tower legs. If you don't add something like axle grease, the paint will at like a glue, and you will have to just about use dynamite to get the sections apart. Jim WA5WRE

@KG5RK

7 жыл бұрын

James Searcy : Not a problem. That Tower Jack will pop those sections apart in no time. Been there, Done that.

@larrybean3833

6 жыл бұрын

Use anti-seize lube. If you use grease it will soften in hot weather & run down the sections, making a real mess! de WB1ETJ. Lary

@you2tooyou2too

9 ай бұрын

@@larrybean3833 It doesn't take more than a paint brush of anti-seizing compound, and the paint makes a big difference in the corrosion after a few years, especially in the bottom two or three feet of the tower, where the rain & wind splash soil salts up onto the legs. It is also good to ensure that the top of the foundation slopes away from the legs, so water does not pool against the embedded metal.

I really hope you have a better harness now.

Why did you raise the mast pipe before putting any antennas on it?

@you2tooyou2too

5 жыл бұрын

I'm surprised they did not raise the top segment with the mast already properly installed. Much easier to do that on the ground.

why not make it on the ground and then pull it up much safer that hanging off the side running cables up down up down then rotator then the beam i would have it tilt over easy

I have a short 40 foot one with one small antenna on it not guyed. My tall one is a HDBX 85 foot free standing I always feared my kid would get the tractor into the guy wires and pull it all down ! Being in the metal fab biz I have a friend with a large boom truck that has I think a 120 foot reach with the jib folded out makes it a lot easier!

Put one up 20 years ago 75 feet,no pole and used rope to tie off and lift 10foot sections,lifted each section over my head at top very dangerous.instaled antenna rotor and 5foot pole,2 antennas stacked,when all done rotor froze up had to use smaller pole to get the rotor to turn,never do this again to dangerous without proper tools.

Gloves guys. Gloves. Hate to see any of yinz get severly hurt putting that section of tower down after aligning it up and dropping it down on the section you've just built before hand.

would have been nice to see the second section install in slow motion

@Ropetangler

9 ай бұрын

I agree, not so much slow motion but normal speed. Still a pretty good informative video though, many thanks for your efforts.

@you2tooyou2too

9 ай бұрын

a little post production image stabilization wouldn't hurt either.

"When you put tha..." what?? Left in such suspense.

i used to put up rohn 25g and it was no problem. these guys scared me but i guess the emergency room needs patients to keep them in business.......g

I just built 60 feet of 25g by myself. Was tough. Gin pole is heavy

1:56 very bad idea without glove!

Davis wind sensor needs to go on the tower :-)

You don’t even joke about dropping things

Hey I know that guy!

I’ll just buy a Rohn 25g tilt base

Much easier to call a friend who owns a helicopter and lift the entire thing up at once

You guys need alot more practice 😎 Nice $375 hammer!!😎 Dropping the tower jack off the tower can bend them!!😎

Guy ever 30 feet for stability and safety

Hard hats people!

@jimmychambers1501

5 жыл бұрын

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@M3rVsT4H

5 жыл бұрын

Robert, I mean this in the nicest possible way. Get fucked.

@M3rVsT4H

5 жыл бұрын

@@JustinKais Wow... You tell one safety Sally to politely fuck off and his boyfriend turns up to have a go at ya mom. What is the world coming to.

I don't was my time anymore with Rohn Towers. Tilt over crank up is the only way to go.

I would never install another tower this way.I have a 50 foot ROHN 25 with a 20 foot mast and three yagis.I am putting up a 2nd tower with a ROHN 25 tilt base and it will be just 30 feet with a 10 foot mast with a Diamond V-2000A on it.The price of the tilt base is well worth the ability to raise and lower the tower.👍🎙

@jameyevans29

Жыл бұрын

Where are you from?

@1OFGODSOWN

Жыл бұрын

@@jameyevans29 I live in North Florida.

@you2tooyou2too

9 ай бұрын

@@jameyevans29 I do like the ease of changing antennas on the tilt tower, but it limits your height, and does not fit everywhere.

@jameyevans29

9 ай бұрын

@@1OFGODSOWN 👍. Nice setup. I’ve been wanting one of these

@1OFGODSOWN

9 ай бұрын

@@jameyevans29 Well my ROHN 25 with all of my antennas came down during the Hurricane a few months ago so I am replacing it with a 52’ Easy Way which has a motor that raises and lowers it and it tilts over.I will be putting up another Mosley TA-53M and it will have the 40 meter rotatable dipole along with another M2 6M5X,Hi-Gain 14 element 2 meter Yagi for 2 meter FM & a Cushcraft 215WB for 2 meter FM.I will hang my 80 meter and 160 meter wires from the top of the tower as well.👍🎙

what's the point of posting video if you're just going to fast forward through 1/2 of it?

how was he sweating? @8:42

@richkelley5112

10 ай бұрын

We both know, eh?

im suprised nobody picked up on the language at 8:42

@wyteboymagik

8 жыл бұрын

lol i could careless what they said, like i said i was just suprised nobody got their panties in a wad over it

@TowerClimber81

8 жыл бұрын

Yea, I'm sure someone will be "offended" by it lol.

@10rninjariderzx

7 жыл бұрын

Jason Anderson that tower could be used to hang em.

@robertheintz8017

7 жыл бұрын

There is always a Liberal idiot just looking to be offended by something.

@10rninjariderzx

7 жыл бұрын

Robert Heintz liberals suck. despicable breed of people

:)

Cluster...

Very informative!! Not exactly choreographed, nor shot trials for the camera. Poorly rigged pompier hook. Could have used a rubber mallet. Should have pried at the weld, not in the middle of the bending cross-member (which changes the leg separation!). Could have applied a simple pipe minder line to use the lever as a hoist for the mast pipe. They could have moved the gin pole up again, and left it in place, for mounting the antenna(s). PS the concrete base is pretty basic too, to tower installation.

I would've assembled it on the ground and then used a truck to Hoist it up.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Hello

I use to love climbing towers...age has caught up to me.

I'm getting vertigo

TIL head-mounted video is even more nauseating sped up!

To bad they used a BAD rotor that will not hold up. Hygain rotors are the best. Tailtwister etc.

pull up that skirt and just get it done son whats with all that crying hell i'm 60 and i do it all the time

blind leading the blind hahhahahha how can i say that... see where his backup belt is.. arund the outside of the tower... so when he falls. his face bounces off the tower on the way down..

Rent a lift

Why on Earth would you climb with only one hook/belt and no helmet, gloves, probably no safety glasses and no fall protection harness? You fall... I bet your wife/family would still sue the property owner... Just saying...

@NA12495

7 жыл бұрын

Jon Frost I installed towers as a kid. Then doing it for work and getting proper training... There are so many things that can go wrong that the average guy doesn't even know about.... Even if you are being safe. I still do it, but I am thankful for the training I got. Example you can die if your legs go numb....

@travelinthru9519

6 жыл бұрын

And how is a hard hat going to save you ?

@SovaKlr

6 жыл бұрын

Something on a rope swings and hits you in the head and you get knocked out, fall, and die of asphyxiation due to being strangled by your ropes/harnesses. Or, you have a hardhat on and don't get knocked out. Alternatively, you develop suspension trauma, faint, fall, and hit your head giving yourself a concussion or worse. Or, you have a hardhat on and don't get a concussion or worse. You don't wear a hardhat because you're worried the sky might fall chicken little.

@bradmetcalf5333

6 жыл бұрын

might drop something on your own head? lol

@1OFGODSOWN

5 жыл бұрын

Travelin Thru a hard hat is for ground crew. If the person on the tower falls off of the tower they will hit the ground before the hard hat does but it may be useful for putting some of their body parts in.