Standing up a windmill

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Mike Hage
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Re: Standing up a windmill

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this is what I used to take down my 45 foot butler tower. It worked awesome. Cost me $150 bucks to rent it for the morning, borrowed a neighbors tractor. It was on the trailer in 45 minutes. I dont see why it wouldn't work for putting it back up. I can just see too many things going horribly wrong tipping it up with a gin pole. I put up my 35 foot wincharger tower piece by piece setting boards on the cross braces as I went up. It wasn't cemented in yet because I wanted to make sure it was straight. I'm completely nuts by the way. I'm never doing it that way ever again!
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Mike Hage
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Re: Standing up a windmill

Post by Mike Hage »

No safety harness either! Nothing to tie off to when doing it like that.
spring hill bill
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Re: Standing up a windmill

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Mike,
What kind of lift is that? It is not something I am familiar with.
joe herman
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Re: Standing up a windmill

Post by joe herman »

This is what here on the Canadian prairies we refer to as a bin crane. It is used with hydraulics
from a tractor to lift large curved sections of metal panels to build large round grain storage bins that can hold in excess of 2500 bushels of wheat, canola, etc.
I used this exact same unit to raise my Aermotor back in 2008. It worked very well. Cost was $150.00
rental for the day.
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