I am not an engineer, but without the house bracket, that one bolt closest to the house you use to tilt, is keeping the tower vertical. That's an enormous amount of stress on just one bolt. You need the house bracket at the peak of your roof!

There is an antenna company in Southgate Michigan that manufacturers a free standing tilt antenna assembly. You first cement the tilt base, then build the tower and connect three bolts to the tilt base. In the future, if you need additional antenna repair, just remove two bolts from the tilt base and walk down the tower to ground level.

Ground block on all coax ,rotor wires,and rohn tower..just my 20 years of experience. Blessed day sir.

Thanks Kevin. I'm happy you didn't cut out the irritating parts of the job. I'm getting older and just got rid of DickTv, so I'm going to put up a tower. I'm out in the boonies, in a hole, and I need a TALL tower. You helped me realize I can set it up, with my wife's help, and save money and get some extra TV. A lot less expensive to do it by yourself, but exhausting, agreed? Good job!

You sure lucky to have Julie as a helper. The minute Julie left you started fighting with the tower. LOL

One thing I'd do before putting the tower sections together is to spray the ends with Krown rustproofing lubricant. Then I'd use stainless steel bolts and washers putting the sections together. Any other steel bolts I'd spray them with the Krown rustproofing lubricant, It only needs it once a year. I would suggest you get some brackets to bracket the tower to the house at the roof peak just to make it more sturdy.

Love that pivoting tower idea!

About a year ago I got rid of cable, saving over $200 a month. On my over the air antenna, I get over 60 channels, all high definition. Great information Kevin, thanks for sharing, be well my friend.

Home Depot has a plastic plumb tool that does level and plumb, all at once. It attaches with rubber bands. I used it on my deck posts when I installed them. Makes it really easy to get the tower base set in the concrete

giving me an idea about my radio antennas. I'm a fan of those scaffolding clamps and I'm going to try to redesign everything and get my stuff off of my house.

Good job Kevin. Like your antenna stand. I’ve had my antenna for the last 6 years and 24 channels clear without messing around with the router 👍

Kevin, I have watched you for a long time that the old video that I used to put up my antenna haven't watched pay tv for a long time it's not worth it.and I am retiring next month don't need any more bills.

Great job on the antenna, nothing better than free tv! 👏🇺🇸

very nice,i will be building this next week ....parts are here.concrete looks fine ....does the job.

Amen brother. Red white and blue is all you need to know!

I can hear Kevin now... OK Julie .. You hold that tower level while I run to the store for some more bags of cement....

Good information Kevin. And by the way I really like the way you work safely. Most of the HGTV Home remodel shows are getting cracked down on for unsafe work habits. Looking forward to your Home Tour this will begreat.

Great video but putting the TV on the” View” and leaving it on there may have damaged some subscribers vision permanently😃

Nice Looks like a satellite dish actuator arm motor. I think you need a Weather Vien Blowing in the wind😁

Very Cool!

I used to have outside TV antenna, took it down 4, 5 years ago. you are getting as much TV stations there as Orange County CA then.

Nice I need to make this for my tower

Nice job.

Thanks for posting this video. If you do have that video of how you build the hinge system I would love to see it. I got a tower that needs to be put up and I've been thinking about some kind of hinge system, it looks like you got it figured out pretty good there.

Nice !!!!

I'm getting an 80 or 90 ft tower soon for amateur radio antennas

thanks!

Great video

You need to use wood blocking to level the pieces on the ground even with each other to get them to slide together easier. THEN use the ratchet strap to pull them tight.

I got tired of paying $85.00 a month for direct tv 3 years ago too and went to a antenna. I got the HDTV Digital Antenna -Amplified HD Outdoor TV Antenna 150 Miles Range Motorized 360 Degree Rotation, Wireless Remote Control, UHF VHF 1080P 4K one and put it in my house because it's plastic. Stuck it on a small pole in the corner and was amazed at how many channels I could get. 63 channels in all. I've now changed my set up and put the tv antenna in my attic it dropped my channel pick up to 20 but that's ok. I bought a Samsung smart tv and found on there though the tv I'm able to get the 20 free air antenna channels plus 200 free channels on Samsung tv plus. Any one can get these channels for free...need a Samsung smart tv and the internet is all. I keep the air antenna channels to have access to local weather and news. Love your antenna Kevin. Love your whole new house too. Your doing a great job.

If you have internet get a roku lots of channels and options free. Pluto, and the roku channel are good. Been cable free for 3 years

? Is the tower working as the earth ground for the antenna? If not I would recommend driving an 8ft ground rod to ensure the antenna is protected In case of a lighting strike. Like I stated before, love that hinged tower idea. Place looks great!

I have a 30 foot tower its bolted into concrete by the hot tub it does not even need to be guyed been up for 20 years of midwest storms I also have a 85 foot Rohn HDBX for my ham and internet equipment its in 8 yards of concrete and is self supporting the house is underground nothing to tie to .

The fabrication of the base plate was well done. The use of dry concrete, the lack of an above grade concrete form, and the lack of reinforcing steel, does not meet accepted standards for a 20' self supporting tower. Water will pool in the area of the base plate and promote electrolysis. The rods driven into the soil are of no structural value. Rebar spaced off the soil in all directions should have been used. Dry application concrete will not meet the 2500 psi minimum for a self supporting tower.

Did I hear you say you built that tower? That's a nice design being able to lay it down like that.

31 is good for the rural Area I lived in Brisbane QLD Australia South (27km Away I Get 10 Channels in my Area My house is Not rural Digital TV Signal Suck Bring back Analog TV Signal

I get 128 channels between Tampa and Orlando.

Should have someone on the roof there to help pull the tower up and homd it steady while ground guy lines tree of them should be attached to the tower checking for level horizontal and vertical level, and a bracket can be attached close to the peak of the tower itself in order to hold it in place adjusting the leveling process with the level, then putting in your concrete base with the sakret bags of cement. Once fully cured and the tower is perfectly level, dig on the outside base and Mix up even more sakret after you put 2 by 4's around the base and pour your sakret in and tral it all in allowing a further amount of time to set, forming yet a stronger, more secure base for your tv tower.

Hi Kevin, how tall is your tower minus the pole attached to the antenna? Is it 20 or 30ft? Great job too!

Two ten foot pieces of mast and a gable clamp would have been far simpler for just a little tv antenna.

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How many feet is the tower? I want to build one-like this nit so tall with rotor and beam. Where can I get the same size tower? Thanks

How tall is the tower and what kind of antenna? I live in the boonies. Great job on install.

Where did you get that antenna tower? I live outside Kalamazoo Michigan and need one for my antenna. I see a lot of houses in the country with old ones. That plate system on the bottom is clever.

Dumped cable a few years ago. Made ni sense paying almost 200 a month and we only watched about 5 channels

Nice tiltting tower sir. May I ask how high is it? Might be enough for my CB antenna and thanks for sharing.

I get 45-60 channels with an indoor RCA flat pannel antenna with a 50 mile range. I was told I'd get 2-3 times more channels if I put an outdoor antenna up atleast 20 feet in the air, there's 149 available in my area?

How did you build your antenna tower hinge plate

What type of concrete did you use ? Do you need fast acting concrete to mix it directly in the hole ?!

This is an excellent video on how NOT to pour concrete.

I bought a house and has this antenna, so what or where do i need to go on my tv to use it??

I wish concrete wasn't so heavy

I hope you don't live in a colder climate. If that concrete isn't below the frost zone it will heave up

no mixing and only 2-1/2 feet geez… is it attached to the building too?

What kind of stress is on the tilt base?

What is the height of antenna in feets

I’m pretty sure that there is not much you can’t do!

How close are you to a broadcast tower?

2 different towers ! Lol

You could block the view!

Not the accepted way to pore concrete.

You paused on the view so I left.

Nice fart you dropped while hammering the pins in. 2min 10secs.

"Plumb" not level. I wouldn't trust that installation the way you did it.

Putting the concrete in dry? The country would like to know that. How many years will it take to get water to harden. Stupid. He must have voted for Trump.

a lot of armchair quarterbacks in here!

U gonna get 10 Mexican channels. 😄