--On Tuesday, November 25, 2008 3:07 PM -0500 Roy Butler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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While I strongly recommend the use of a worm gear type winch (because of
it's braking ability) I have to admit that they're getting harder to find.
My elevator guy turned me on to the GoLo - an AC powered hois
Hi Nik
Ramsey RE 12000
_*worm drive*_ is the only way to go. no brake to fail, power up, power
down.
Karl
100+ TUT installs. 60-196 feet tall
Nicholas Ponzio wrote:
Wind Wrenches,
I'm shopping for an electric winch for raising tilt-up towers (small
turbines and anemometers). What
Orzel
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Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] tower lifting
We use a 9000 lb Super Winch mounted to our truck front bumper via a
receiver hitch. I thought about smaller winches, but we used this to
raise a 100 ft Bergey XL.1 and we were not wishing for a smaller winch.
My biggest complaint about the Superwinch is it keeps going for about
a ft after yo
Hi Nik -- We shop around locally and on Ebay for slow, large-ratio
worm-drive winch bodies that are power in/power out. We give them a
safety check, lube them up, and then they are usually mounted
permanently near the customer's tower. We usually then power the winch
with a cordless drill and
Wind Wrenches,
I'm shopping for an electric winch for raising tilt-up towers (small
turbines and anemometers). What do you use? Would you buy something
different if you had to do it again?
Thanks,
-Nik
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