There’s always the helicopter option. I found a video of taking down a cornucopia (conical horn) with a helicopter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU1J1D6CpaE
From: Eric Kuhnke Sent: Monday, October 05, 2015 7:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Free 6 ft size, 6 GHz high performance dish,you haul It's possible they attached the dishes to the final tower segment before raising it with a gin pole attached to the second-to-last tower segment? Or the original install involved a big truck crane raising the dish, two guys with two separate tag lines tied off on the front left/right sides of the dish to keep it under control, and a couple of guys on the tower to mount it. On 10/5/15 5:00 PM, Craig House wrote: I have wondered the same thing. I have talked to a crane company about removing them just to free up the wind load they create but for the cost of the crane I'd think I could do it myself if it were not for the issue of not having an attachment above the dish. The top dishes actually are about 2 feet above the top of the tower. Craig ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: "Eric Kuhnke" mailto:[email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, October 5, 2015 6:40:55 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Free 6 ft size, 6 GHz high performance dish, you haul I wonder how they got the dishes on the top of that in place originally. Crane?� Based on my knowledge of rigging methods, I'm trying to figure out in my head a way to establish an anchor and pulley above those dishes to lower it with a steel cable and winch, but they're right at the top of the tower. Or vice versa, to raise one following a cable path at a 35-45 degree angle... There is a 25-floor building near here with a nice 8 ft size 6 GHz Andrew dish. I could have it for free. It's built from heavy gauge everything and probably weighs 600 pounds. The only way to get it down now would be a helicopter, it's been up there 25+ years. On 10/5/15 4:21 PM, Craig House wrote: I have six of them on the tower that are 8 foot and 12 foot size if anyone wants to come get them off the tower they can have them Sent from my iPhone On Oct 5, 2015, at 18:17, Eric Kuhnke mailto:[email protected] wrote: It's located on a hilltop in Bo, Sierra Leone. Bring a capable 4x4. Photos attached. Any takers? :) <IMG_20150227_122749.jpg> <IMG_20150227_130030.jpg>
