Wow.....someone not scared of heights.
you use a crane or a lift truck to put that in?
Wow.....someone not scared of heights.
you use a crane or a lift truck to put that in?
Neither, put up by hand power. Using a 26 foot long gin pole for mechanical advantage, with a hand crank winch attached to about 2000 pounds of burried steel. Its actually very scary lifting this much steel up as high as this tower is. I chickened out a bit and cut the tower 6 feet shorter than I had originally built it for. Here you can see the pivot point and gin pole.
and here you can get a idea of counter weights I am adding to make the cranking up and down easier on my old arms. As the gin pole rises when lowering the tower a cable from the gin pole to the slug of steel below it will tighten and add weight to the gin pole. Finally using up steel from my junk metal pile.
Give a man a gun, and he can rob a bank. Give a man a bank, and he can rob the world.
Here you can see the set up with the counter weights doing there job. In this picture the ginn pole is now pointing straight up into the air, The turbine and pole are now laying down. Each of those round steel slugs are 250-300 pounds so together the counter weights equal about 600 pounds
Had a slight accident when lowering the tower when my hand slipped off the hand crank, no bones broken but close, it will be a day or so before I can use my hand.
Give a man a gun, and he can rob a bank. Give a man a bank, and he can rob the world.
Here is a project I have been meaning to get back to. This is from a wind turbine needing a complete rebuild, new coils wound, new magnets and new blades made, but once done this thing could power a whole house and no solar panels would be needed. The problem with turbines this size is the cost to build it and the huge size and weight of everything. I cant even get the blades in the picture cause they are 17 feet across. It takes two men to lift this blade set up and carry it, and even then you can only go 20-30 feet and then need to set it down and rest. This is on my rebuild list to do, but not now.
It had been built with cheap lumber for blades, but I am wanting to do the blades in good knot free, clear cedar. I estimate the Cedar cost to do each blade at 850-1000 dollars. So close to 3000.00.
Give a man a gun, and he can rob a bank. Give a man a bank, and he can rob the world.
From my ( burnt) scrap metal pile, a Bison chuck for a pipe spinner, I remember the bill for that...2000 dollars! Now I will drag it over to the tower and add it on the counter weight shaft. It will become the most expensive counter weight around. It has to be close to two hundred pounds of steel.
Give a man a gun, and he can rob a bank. Give a man a bank, and he can rob the world.