Not claiming they don't exist, but I have never seen a raising fixture for
other than a crankup tower. Bite the bullet and buy the stuff that is all
supposed to work together. If you extrapolate from how they are set up, a
raising fixture for a 60 foot non crankup tower would be about 30 feet high.

Tam/WB2TT
"DOUGLAS SNOWDEN" wrote in message
...
I am still trying to decide what type of tower to buy for a house I will
be
moving into. I would like something I can handle easily by myself, meaning
either crankup or tiltover aluminum. I was thinking about maybe a Heights
or Universal aluminum 50-60ft on a tiltover base, not the foldover base.
To
save money I would like to fabricate some sort of steel post along the
side
of the tower, with a pulley/winch arrangement. Not being an engineer, I
am
looking for ideas on how high the pole shoule be - maybe as a ratio of the
tower height and what would be a good safe diameter pipe. Am I looking
for
trouble? Typical commercial foldover mechanisms are expensive. Should I
just rent a cherry picker for the occasional times I would be tilting the
tower over? As light as it would be that should be a solution.


Doug

N4IJ