On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:42:36 -0700 (PDT), Art Unwin
wrote:

On Jul 12, 2:46 pm, John Ferrell wrote:
Why do we always mount our HF Yagi's in the horizontal plane?
Antenna maintenance would be much easier for those of us with tilt
over towers if the antenna were in the horizontal plane when down for
maintenance!

John Ferrell W8CCW

John, A local guy has his yagi hinged at the top where the downward
pole slips
into a "U " shaped clasp. a
As his foldover comes down the leverage supplied by
the yagi removes the pole from the clasp and the yagi arrives at
ground level in a horizontal position
That is ingenious!
I will have to think through the details but I think I can implement
it. Keeping weight to a minimum is an important factor.

John Ferrell W8CCW