Base bracket fitted
Pole up vertical
Solar light spinner fitted
Diamond 2000 down!
Wednesday 3rd April Been a wonderful sunny day & after a doggie walk dug over a raised bed ready for seed planting also put in two bags of fresh top soil.
Then it was over to the Ham Radio vertical winch assisted steel pole & get the aluminium pole down with Cobweb & Diamond 2000 attached to it. Now that sounds a easy job!
Last week I realised the bottom bracket was facing the wrong way because if I brought down the ali pole the aerials would be in the swimming pond! the metal brackets are from the builders merchant with modifications by me! once that was done the next problem I found was the bottom of steel pole was hitting the vertical 4"x4" wooden post anyway run out of energy yesterday so started on it again today.
First job was hacksaw about 2 inches of steel pole & ground the edges then took it over to post attached the steel pole & got it vertical then came the difficult job of attaching the ali pole with aerials to it! anyway after about an hour poles were down & Cobweb & Diamond 2000 disconnected.
My next job will be attaching another steel pole to the existing pole with scaffold clamps to give me more height & refit all the aerials also change the locations of the guy ropes.
Now I have fitted the winch I will be happy winching the aerials into the air without struggling & using manual physical effort.
