I'm so jealous right now, it's absolutely the sweetest rig I have ever seen. awesome job Dave !

Love the stand for the tower, no danger of falling accidents, no climbers needed!

That is epic. I love the simplicity of the design, very few moving parts and using a proven method for raising and lowering it. Nice job.

Super clean and professional as always. Came at the right time for me. I am building my second tower right now and you gave me some excellent ideas. Many thanks Dave !

Amazing. Bad ass!!! I’m sorry but I need you permission to copy that design. Without a doubt is the best setup I’ve seen. I got excited seeing it go up. Great job! 👍👍👍✅👏

Nice! I love the idea of lowering the tower so easily in the event of a sever storm. I live in tornado alley.

You have a Nice tower !!! I like how it's built the base and hinge parts are really well built and the winch setup is really nice !!!!

This is the best home made setup I have seen yet

I'm a retired structural engineer with retired licenses. The structure looks fine. Well thought-out. What I haven't been able to see is the anchor bolt pattern and sizes. Bolt pull out would be my primary concern for the design. I am a 75 year ham and my tower climbing days are done

Wow I can only dream for such a work of art , good job!!

Love how you painted it red and white.

Beautiful! Well done! I'm envious. Most hams are conscientious enough to take every precaution when erecting a tower. A quick search through KZfaq, though, will show that 'most' doesn't mean 'all.' Yours is a great example of a good one. Thanks!

Hey Dave, Please stand to the side of the cable path when erecting the tower! You don't want to be lined up in its path if something lets go...

gave me some really good ideas on the construction of my Towner to be. thanks for sharing.

That is one sexy tower!

Hey Dave, thanks for the show. Looks real nice with all the detail. 73,

Very well engineered lift structure. This was a very cool video. Thank you.

Nice tower. I was in the neighborhood a few weeks ago looking at houses.

That is some beautiful engineering.... And it's a good looking too! Thanks for all your videos and instructional content - I'm a relatively new general ticket holder and learned lots from watching you over the past year... 73 - KK6IQK.

Really nice setup. Would be proud to have that in my yard :)

A magnificent feat of engineering!

I would like to have that set up in my yard,, what a great video 😂 73S N0QIC HERB

Nice tower Dave. I have only been retired for a few months now but starting to focus on ham radio. I live in the city. I cannot put up a good HF antenna. I have purchased a used Hy-gain that I can install to work HF bands. It is only 21 feet. I have not been able to find a reasonable tilt base. I guess I will need to make one. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for sharing your experience. I can't climb towers anymore so I was looking for alternatives. I didn't like some of the other setups that people have tried. I see where people made a tilt over mast. I thought why can't you do the same with a tower. I was thinking about designs and then I saw yours. I can't climb but I can weld.

Thanks for posting this Dave. With some small changes, I looked at your rig and built my own. It doesn’t look as sweet as yours, but came out nice!!! Thanks again for sharing

Brilliant !... I can see myself building one for a wind turbine

Wow super nice clean . Amazing job. Love it. It seems to me now i will do something similar and bit taller .

WOW! Can't wait for the comments on this one! Great job!

I JUST started in HAM and I am Thouroughly Impressed!!! Great Job!!!!

It's........BEAUTIFUL!

That is one bad azz rig. I hope your in the biz on making towers. If not , don't miss your call.

Cool Tower. Congrats ! Don't stand in line with the Base Mount when you are winching it up and down. If any bolts fail ever, the base will shoot backwards and kill you. stand off to the side when winching it up or down. 73,

You would be smart to add a sway brace like 1\8 inch steel cable run through 1 inch square tubing standoffs say 4 inches out with a 1\4 inch hole all the way to the top of your tower ! Use a 3\8's turn buckle tied to the very bottom of the tower and you will eliminate all that bending of the 25g as you raise the tower . You also need to raise the height of the point of attachment on the tower at least 10 feet .

I really like your tower build You did a great job and it's beautiful and it looks like it works pretty well.. I'm curious if you had considered doing a cantilever style tilt over with a weight on the bottom? I'm thinking of doing just that but with a cantilever and a heavy concrete weight on the bottom so the winch doesn't need to work hard

Great video as always Dave. 73 NE5U

Nice tower, also in The Netherlands this concept is very common for illegally radio stations with homemade towers up to 100 meters.

NICE setup you did a great job now I have to have one.

very impressive engineering.

Beautiful powder coat job!!

Beautiful. Loved how clean the design was. Also the paint job was excellent!!!! Probably the most professional job I have seen that wasn't for production. I assume this wasn't the prototype. Because a design this good has to evolve.

This is really cool! Thank you for sharing! Brandon KG5LQM

nice work, lots of it. thanks for sharing

Nice job Dave, as always.

Beautiful job,Dave ! 73 !

Was the stand made and or bought Dave? I fit was made what are the dimensions and materials you used?

that was perfect great wow too many questions to ask, others probably have asked before thumbs up for sure

If only I had one this big in my garden with permission. I would defo have a dipole & 5 element aerial on there.

Very nice no expense spared

Pretty Sweet design ! It’s sort of Funny on how many of these towers dont utilize a electric whinch and I couldn’t understand why someone didnt install one to make the procedure easier IMO they aren’t very expensive to purchase any more and it looks like all the manual designs need a small team to set up their towers ive always been a guy that likes to design things i can do by myself as that is part of the challenge on building or using whatever i build plus i dont need to rely on anyone as well

Very nice design

Looks great, most towers recommend bracketing at 10 feet, so if you made the errection tower 10 feet high at clamp area that would be perfect. One yard of concrete is ok if you are guying, I think free standing requires something like two yards for a crank up tip over fifty footer.

Awesome tower

Look forward to future signal reports from the Yagi at that height !

Well done. Looks like a relatively simple build.

Dave do u have any plans ? also looking forward to your next video.

Impressive design and cool tilt-over motor set-up. I'm considering a more generic config; 'US Tower i.e. 541SS, but surprisingly, they don't offer a motorized tilt mech.

Did you make the tower yourself? I mean, did you weld it yourself?

Dave , What size winch did you use?

I am also feeling pretty jealous why how don't I have this? I N D I A ❤

Nice.

Thanks for the heads up on how to lower raise the my tv tower

what a nice job, you make it look easy. LOL

Good job nice set up

O man ! that is awesome . I've been waiting on you to show more detail . I hope you don't have a copyright yet cause Im make N notes! I like the base swivel you have set up on it ! that's such a awesome ideal thanks for shearing

Wow that is the nicest tower I have seen in quite some time!!!

What kind of pully did you use at the top?

Awesome Tower

Awesome job thank you .

Great work BUT! The tower would have to be much taller for me (me) to justify the whole operation. 48 feet is not enough juice for the squeeze, so-to-speak. Maybe I am just a jealous fool, not sure.

How high is your winch pole, and at what height do you have the lifting cable attached to the tower? What is the over all height of the tower?

Great Job

totally amazing work in deed.. well done.. tony t. n0amy..

Welcome back

wow..that's awesome

How would you add a Rotor to your Antenna? Would you be able to mount a rotor to the lower section and run sections of pipe? How log are your Guys on this tower? I saw what looked like a light in the last tower section, was this just for giggles? It all looks great! Please send me your answers, love to hear about this.

You are very nice

Very nice!

Well done.

Nice work

why the music....why why why..

Great stuff.

Good Upload

great video,73 from brazil

That's how to do it..I had a 20 footer hoisting a 100 with a 12 v winch for years

I have a tower like that with three sections I am going to use your idea to put it up. I will go up another twenty foot with pipe to get it to fifty foot. I will just put a light antenna on it like a I max 2000. I would like to give this video about fifty thumbs up.

Show top my friend, 73

i am building something simulor to that 40 ft step tower just trying to figure out the back for the winch i have 4 10ft pipe from a well bit im using

Very cool! Thank you for sharing! I must ask... Why not go ahead and mount your antennas and secure coax prior to raising the tower vs climbing to mount? Just curious!

Nice, but should have sufficient space too

Wow what a cool project. How long did you work on this one?

nice setup Dave I'm looking for a winch for my tower something simmer do you have, if you have any information on the winch and what size cable you have that would be a big help thank you

Dave did you do the welding per the tower base ( white steel) ? Nice job. walt

5:24 This is me when I see a beautiful sexy lady. (Did anyone make this joke already?)

Where can I get some dimensions or drawings for this

that's super fly

Hello Dave, Wow that is one sweet tower stand you built. I have never seen one like it before and probably never will. If I may ask, in design time, stand steel, tower, including the 8 ton winch and 1 1/2 yards of concrete... how much money do you have invested in that stand / project.... roughly ? Just to give us DIY'ers an idea. Oh and thank you for all the cool and informative project videos you have taken the time to do and post. Mike KD8WBQ

Did you add the antenna when the tower was down or did you climb tower and then attach to tower?

Very nice tower.. could've done without the music for the video.

Awesome ..thanks for sharing.73s AA1US

"Reel Nice" LOL! :)