On Apr 18, 7:46*am, stryped wrote:
I need to replace my 13 year old tv antenna on my 30 foot or so tower.
I hate crawling up the thing. It is against my garage. I am thinking
of digging a hole beside it and constructing some type of hinge. I
dont have alot of metal wright now, but I do have some 3 inch pipe, 2
inch pipe, 3 inche square tubing, etc.

I also wondered if I had a 10 foot piece of square tubign attached to
some point int he concrete I will pour for the new tower if mounting a
hand crank winch with a pulley on top would help get it up. (I have to
be able to do this all by myself.

I thought of using my extra tractor pin 3 point inches and some black
pipe about the size of the pins for hinges.

APpreciate any advice.

There's any number of ways to do it, mine's up there about 20' which
is sufficient to get all the local channels. I rigged mine up to tip
completely over, also has the satellite dish attached. With
everything gone to digital, you aren't going to need the giant beams
of yesteryear or the heavy superstructure to support same, I've got a
small flying saucer on top that's amplified. I can get by with what
was a roof tripod supporting a couple of lengths of antenna mast
tubing and a couple of sets of guy wires. The whole thing is very
light weight and I can tip it down and set it back up by myself. Has
stood up to 100 mph winds several times and a bunch of 4' deep
blizzards. Has been up about 10 years. Top set of guys is about 4'
from the top, second set is about in the center, all going down to
three ground anchors. Have to periodically check tension on them.

If you want something more elaborate, check out what the hams do with
their towers.

Stan