I just bought a three section 60 ft crank up tower from a guy for 200.00. I plan on cranking this up to about 45 feet and hanging an Alpha Delta inverted V dipole, (80 through 6 meters) on it. The tower has a triangular hinge plate on the bottom which is connected to two of the tower posts with two bolts. This plate has three holes and it is supposed to bolt down to a concrete slab that you pour. The slab has three threaded rods ( that look like about 1/2 inch diameter) sticking up. I saw this at the guys house but we weren't going to try to take the slab. He said he had used about 5 bags of concrete but I'd feel better if i could see that in print...

To raise the tower you hinge the tower up (against your house I assume), although I understand that some of these are free standing without guy wires!!,(I don't know how that would be possible with my tower), and then insert the third bolt into the base. He told me that he then had this secured against the side of his house. I would do the same.

This tower has been sitting outside for a number of years, however the galvanized coating and cable is still good, and although the winch is pretty rusty the the gears and ratchet assembly still work. for safety purposes though I would really like to see the scoop on the winch, reversing mechanism and brake, and also the base.

I plan on lubricating it and installing this up against my house in the Spring, however I would really like to identify the manufacturer and perhaps get a manual for it. The problem is I can't find any clue on this thing at all as to who made it.

To see a representation of what this looks like please take a look at the LM354 on the following site. It looks very much like what I have, but I really don't Know for su

http://www.tashtowers.com/docs/LM354-01.pdf

If anyone has any experience with one of these type towers I'd really appreciate any advice. Thanks very much, Lenny,