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Sigh, I am going to have some difficulty digging the hole for the tower foundation where I want it. Turns out some buried electrical was re-routed when the window well was dug a few years ago when we finished our basement and it was moved further south along the west wall where I want to put the tower. Oh well. Improvise, adapt, overcome.

To at least get the beam up I may just mount it on a guyed pole. The rotor I have is beefy enough to handle the beam when the rotor is pole-mounted but there's not much safety margin. A local ham showed me this type of rotor mount that still lets you use a guyed pole but the rotor mounts to a plate so it has closer to the tower-mounted strength especially when a second mount is used for a thrust bearing. The guy wires would attach to the pole right below where the rotor bracket is attached. I may just give this a try. Experimenting is a big part of the fun for me, although sometimes my experiments don't exactly go to plan. Live and learn.

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<blockquote data-quote="TimmyTheTorch" data-source="post: 814156" data-attributes="member: 64271">Sigh, I am going to have some difficulty digging the hole for the tower foundation where I want it. Turns out some buried electrical was re-routed when the window well was dug a few years ago when we finished our basement and it was moved further south along the west wall where I want to put the tower. Oh well. Improvise, adapt, overcome.To at least get the beam up I may just mount it on a guyed pole. The rotor I have is beefy enough to handle the beam when the rotor is pole-mounted but there&#039;s not much safety margin. A local ham showed me <a href="https://www.classicinternational.eu/antennes-montage/masten-buizen/hardware/rotorplatform-50/" target="_blank">this type of rotor mount</a> that still lets you use a guyed pole but the rotor mounts to a plate so it has closer to the tower-mounted strength especially when a second mount is used for a thrust bearing. The guy wires would attach to the pole right below where the rotor bracket is attached. I may just give this a try.&nbsp; Experimenting is a big part of the fun for me, although sometimes my experiments don&#039;t exactly go to plan. Live and learn.[ATTACH=full]63360[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TimmyTheTorch, post: 814156, member: 64271"] Sigh, I am going to have some difficulty digging the hole for the tower foundation where I want it. Turns out some buried electrical was re-routed when the window well was dug a few years ago when we finished our basement and it was moved further south along the west wall where I want to put the tower. Oh well. Improvise, adapt, overcome. To at least get the beam up I may just mount it on a guyed pole. The rotor I have is beefy enough to handle the beam when the rotor is pole-mounted but there's not much safety margin. A local ham showed me [URL='https://www.classicinternational.eu/antennes-montage/masten-buizen/hardware/rotorplatform-50/']this type of rotor mount[/URL] that still lets you use a guyed pole but the rotor mounts to a plate so it has closer to the tower-mounted strength especially when a second mount is used for a thrust bearing. The guy wires would attach to the pole right below where the rotor bracket is attached. I may just give this a try. Experimenting is a big part of the fun for me, although sometimes my experiments don't exactly go to plan. Live and learn. [ATTACH type="full" alt="1679950239789.png"]63360[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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