My personal opinion is it will not withstand the first half of the
lift. I had a similar situation and it did not work. You might
consider using "drill stem".
Rick
Brian Sherrod wrote:
Sort of off topic, however I know there are some really smart guys on
here
that may know the answer to this;
I've got a Rohn bx48 (48' light duty tower) that I would like to be
able to
fold over/up for any maintenance. It will have a Ham IV rotor/3 el.
tri-bander and dipole pulley at the top. I plan to mount in the concrete
base a 25' steel pipe 4 1/2" diameter with 1/4" walls directly behind the
tower for raising and lowering to tower. The pipe will be 20 feet
above the
ground level with 5 feet embedded in the concrete tower substructure. It
will have a pulley at the top of the pipe and a hand crank at about 4
feet,
with steel cable attached to the tower at the 20 foot level. Question
is;
will 1/4" walled 4 1/2" steel pipe be able to withstand the foot lbs.
required to raise and lower this tower below the 45 degree mark without
buckling? Seems I can not find any pipe this size with larger wall
diameter
around here. I could guy the pipe in the opposite direction if needed...
Any mechanical engineers out there know the answer??
Thanks,
Brian / w5ami
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