Looking for a Free Standing Tower

[Mr Clean]

Somthing 55ft plus . Will be holding 11 ft windload beam. A M105CHV Maco 5 element Maxibeam. with a half wave dipole on the side of mast.

 

[Master Chief]

It helps if people know where you are.

I live in Southern CA and do a lot of tower and antenna work. I currently have:

US Tower TX-472
US Tower MA-550 w/ freestanding rotating base.
US Tower MA-40 w/ freestanding rotating base.
US Tower MA-40 w/ regular base.
Rohn BX-56 free standing tower.

And a couple of more to take down. If you live in Southern CA, I could probably help you. I'm currently shipping an older tower to the east coast. Its a heavy duty tower made by Triex with motor control.

I also have a Triex MW-50. This is going to TollFree.

 

[distortion]

I'm looking for a 60-80 feet tower to man, for cheap Lol. Everybody around me seems to be getting them for free from folks who just want them gone.. I have had no such luck. This is in Atlanta, GA.

Somebody 4 hours away had a 125-150 footer for free on ebay if you took it down, but I don't have no way to transport that much tower, lol.

Good Luck,
Josh

 

[W5LZ]

Josh,
For that much tower, it'd be worth making 2 trips for! You could always sell half to pay for the expenses.
- 'Doc

 

[bighammer]

texastowers.com look at the universal towers. free standing aluminum

 

[rfoverlord]

i just picked up a universal towers 9-50, now for a new yaesu rotor. i'm also thinking of a new mosely ta-63-m.

 

[WavMixer]

It helps if people know where you are.

I live in Southern CA and do a lot of tower and antenna work. ....

I also have a Triex MW-50. This is going to TollFree.

Breaker breaker Ch. 12. Hey Master Chief, you gotta copy on WavMixer?

 

[Captain Kilowatt]

Well I'm looking for a new tower as well.The present 40 foot free standing tower is showing it's age with some surface rust where the galvanizing has worn off.It's about 35 years old and I am the second owner.It's a Delhi DMX-40 and I love it. Delhi specs it for,I believe 3 square feet of wind load, and I have had it loaded with nearly 10 square feet plus hanging a couple wires off of it and it has served me well even through many Nor'easters and a hurricane or two over the years. Needless to say the Delhi series towers are VERY underrated. I just received pricing on a new medium duty DMXMD-56 and a new DMXHD-48 which are a 56 foot medium duty and a 48 foot heavy duty tower.My present tower is just a light duty DMX-40 and if it handles three times the rated wind load I can't imagine what the MD or HD models will actually do.I was talking to a professional rigger that I used to deal with in the broadcast business that has erected hundreds of the Delhi towers and he told me the specs on those Delhi's are a joke.They are routinely overloaded without any problems.Hopefully next year (if I can't convince the wife to go to Jamaica instead but that's another story) I plan to replace the tower as well as pick up a new rotator and maybe even a new tribander to replace the old beatup A3 I have now. I'm looking at the Yaesu G-800SA rotator.I priced the new tower at $1050 for the 48' and $1165 for the 56' plus another $400 for the rotator plus another $600 for the tribander plus whatever 5 yards of concrete will cost me plus engineering and welding to convert the tower to a fold over type using another tower as a 20 foot high fulcrum plus taxes on everything. :headbang After I show the wife what everything is going to cost she may agree to go to Jamaica instead. It wll be cheaper! Either way I win!

 

[Master Chief]

Yep, I hear you!

 

[Mr Clean]

I have a 48 ft Delhi HD and the Yeasu SA 800 rotator. Guess it will be spring before I get it up. I have everything but coax and rotator cable. Went with carbon steel for the mast. I want that sucker to stay up for sure!