"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Thu, 06 Oct 2005 19:37:39 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
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"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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I've been working on the Halman trailer for the past couple of days
and while doing so, have been working out how I can single hand the
mast and what materials I would use to build the gin pole and A-frame.

I went to a local metal shop this morning and checked different types
of steel, but to make what I want would be too heavy for me to handle
by myself.

So, I came home and spent some time in the wood shop working with
different lengths of PT fir and such along with some left over PVC
tubing from a drainage project - not enough strength.

As I walked around the back of the barn, I found my solution - a 24'
length aluminum sailboat mast from a project that was abandoned years
ago. I got it form a local place that some of you may have heard of
over the years - Metal Mast Marine. I bought it as scrap and when the
project went south, I just put the mast in back of the barn and forgot
about it.

Thus, solution found - it's just engineering from here.

Sounds like you might have the parts for a complete boat behind that
garage,
if you just clear the weeds.

I've got about 200 feet of Rohn 25 radio tower back there, some 3 inch
aluminum rotator mast, several supports for Rhombic antennas, the lead
in for the Beverage antenna I have running through my woods, 100 or so
feet of PVC drain pipe, several hundred feet of tower guy wire, stuff
like that.

Oh, and four different vertical antennas for 10, 20, 30 and 40 meters.

So YOU'RE the guy who interfered with my CB and (might not be legal) linear
amplifier as I drove back & forth on route 90 many years ago!