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"Stacking Steel"

Because I was in a rush to get the towers back up after the storm, I looked at several options.  The best quote on building 170' of R55 was in the $3K range.  With the help of K8OMO's bucket truck, we were able to do two "picks" of 40' each, and in one day, two 80' towers were standing.  The following weekend a 168' crane from Canton Errectors did two more "picks" of  fifty and eighty feet.  With the help of a lot of the local hams, and by doing the "steelwork" myself, the cost of raising two towers was about $1.5K.

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