One of the short "farm jacks" might be easier to work on the tower. I have one of the long HiLift jacks I use for all sorts of things. That would be easy to "gin pole" to a lower section and use it without the base.
At 04:36 PM 12/9/2009, you wrote: >Ya know, I thought about an old scissor jack. Might be the cheap and easy >answer. > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On >Behalf Of Scottie Arnett >Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 5:28 PM >To: WISPA General List >Subject: Re: [WISPA] Lanyards and Rebar Hooks > >Go get you one of these: < >http://www.northerntool.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_6970_200305253 >_200305253 > or go to the local junk yard and get one out of any junk import >car. Weld you a piece of metal to the top and bottom strong enough and long >enough to push your tower pieces apart. That is what I use. > >Scottie > >---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- >From: Data Technology <w...@dtisp.com> >Reply-To: WISPA General List <wireless@wispa.org> >Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:40:18 -0600 > > >Scott, > > > >Take a look at the picture on the home page. > >http://www.superiormusic.com/towerjack.htm > >The notches cut on the jack fit around the horizontal rungs and to take > >the section apart you pull down on the handle. > >To help pull the section together you place the hook around the top rung > >and pull down on the handle. > > > >I have the hevi duty version which also has a leg aligner on it. I > >don't think I have ever needed to use the leg aligner. > > > >This is a lot easier than using a bottle jack and 2 2x4's. I came up > >with one better than that once. It was using a car jack and bolting the > >2x4's to it so did not have to worry about loosing a 2x4. > > > >LaRoy McCann > >Data Technology > > > >Scott Reed wrote: > >> Since I am not the one that does our tower work, I will let my curiosity > >> ask, how do you use the tower jack? > >> > >> Data Technology wrote: > >> > >>> Robert, > >>> I just bought one of these a couple of months ago. > >>> Don't know if it will keep me from killing my self because I have not > >>> had the misfortune to try it out yet ;) > >>> > >>> >http://www.midwestunlimited.com/detail.lasso?cat_master=1002&cat_level=1023&; >product_id=10709 > >>> > >>> I don't know if these numbers are working but there are 2 numbers and an > > >>> email link on their website. > >>> http://www.superiormusic.com/towerjack01.htm > >>> > >>> > >>> Robert West wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>> Looking for a source for lanyards with rebar hooks but for a decent >price, > >>>> as in cheap but not so cheap I'll kill myself using it. 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