Yep, so I've heard. Making crankups must be like making ladders, half the cost is insurance. The one I have is about 40 ft. and is 3 sections of aluminum tower with steel shit in between for the pulleys. Most of them were rusted and it cost me a fortune to have new ones welded up. Still a cheap tower compared with new.
My main tower is 55' Rohn 25 with the tilt-over in the middle. Chickenshits like me don't climb! But Rohn finally quit making these cuz too many dumbshits didn't follow instructions and den dey fall down go boom. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Saletzki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Discussion of AM Radio" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2004 7:28 PM Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Tower Construction > Hi Brian, > I am happy to report that Rohn and their products are not dead. A company > called Radian bought out Rohn. > See: http://www.rohnnet.com/ for more information. The best news is they > are restarting the old Rohn manufacturing plant in the Peoria, Il. area. If > I remember correctly someone else bought out Rohn's galvanizing facility > here in the Peoria area. (I believe it was someone from the Chicago area but > could stand to be corrected) So Radian is having this company do their > galvanizing. (again this could stand to be corrected) > This link will take you to the original Rohn catalog: > http://www.rohnnet.net/rohnnet2004/html2004/index.html > > Hope this helps. How many of you remember that Rohn made a crank up > tower?? I was interested in buying one a few years ago but when I called > Rohn they would not admit having built one. I finally got some documentation > on the one I was interested in. It was not rated very high for windload for > it's size so I passed on it. Later I acquired a number of old QST's that had > a number of ads in them for Rohn crank ups. They must have had some serious > issues with them. > 73 Larry WA9VRH > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Brian Carling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Discussion of AM Radio" <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2004 5:11 PM > Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Tower Construction > > > > I know that with the Rohn 25G they recommend no more than three sections > > without guys. Not sure on the 55G, but it might be on someone's web site. > > > > I heard Rohn went out of business which is a D&*n shame, > > in my opinion. They were a great company that has supplied > > great products for decades. Someone is probably now selling > > a cheap Chinese imitation made out of recycled pot metal > > and retailing for 90% of the Rohn price! > snip> > > > _______________________________________________ > AMRadio mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio >
