Putting together my 40-foot ham radio tower part 1 of 2

Go check out Journey Along With Shannon AKA JOWS And Radio Radio KN4YEM Putting together a Rone 25 ham radio tower on tilt base plate

[@tyronetbrown2152]

First off you should have a real hammer i see why it is so many parts me and the mutt would have been done with it by now. I don't know how you have a channel, who's with me don't be scared I'm not.?

[@The_Other_Brother...]

Thank you for your comment I see you don't have any videos on your channel you should show us how put one of those together by your comment I can see you are a professional

[@netautorisationnetautorisa545]

*HAHA WHAT YOU TRY TO **#SAY** !!! DONKEY ??* (OR PIZZA) MR.WHITE .. WE NEVER WILL KNOW have a good walk

[@Meckerkopp007]

ist kein KÖTER ! Sondern ein HUND!!! Freggle!

[@chuckstonex1632]

I have the same tower on the same base. It was a pain to get the sections together. I used a come along to pull my pieces together after my wife and I lined them up and my dog helped too.

[@aidd1938]

I enjoyed your video. I like how you showed how things are never as easy as they look. A lot of people who make KZbin videos would have cut out 90% of it and made it look like everything went together just as easy as could be. Thank you for your honesty. N9CM

[@The_Other_Brother...]

Thank you and I did cut 90% out of throwing the Hammers cussing and throwing fits LOL 73

[@nickmad887]

Thank you for the video. love that dog.

[@scottshaver5495]

Ryan that’s going to be a really nice tower for ur radio 📻, sometimes these things can be a headache to put together, but us old country boys can always find away lol 😂, really like ur dog, I sure miss mine. Take care Ryan really enjoyed ur video 👍🏻. From Kentucky 😀

[@The_Other_Brother...]

Thank you Scott you always have positive stuff to say thank you so much

[@lauraglasscock7534]

That is awesome and I lost count how many times I saw Gidget..lol!

[@c120flyer]

When I was 20, I erected a 70’ tower with a gin pole, it was a chore, but man, it was great! I’m 65 now, and my neck hurts just looking up that high! Ignore the trolls on here, you did fine. Thing is, every new thing we do is a learning experience. I guess I need to look for your next video to see how you stand it up. I helped a buddy with a 38’ hinged tower and he mounted a boat winch about 10’ on 4x4. That thing bowed and creaked and scared the heck out of us, but we finally got it! Besides having a nice ya girl beam, you’re gonna love having your antennas mounted on that tower! It’s a great place to hang inverted vees and slopers from. Just get a kid to do your aerial work! Good luck!

[@The_Other_Brother...]

Thank you very much for watching the video and your comment I don't let the trolls bother me because they have nothing better to do I learned in life there's a hundred ways to do something and every of them is the wrong way to do it according to other trolls

[@solardiyhobbyandrevies8118]

Straps that was a good idea. And your pup was sure impressed.

[@The_Other_Brother...]

I wish I would have thought about the straps earlier it about killed me putting them together

[@taradalmatianshaver6828]

I know you will be excited to get this all done and able to use it! Love your puppy doggies 🐾♥️

[@The_Other_Brother...]

That dog is a pain in the butt she always wants attention but she is a good dog

[@taradalmatianshaver6828]

@@The_Other_Brother... she likes to play fetch! Fun! I tried to teach my last Dalmatian to play fetch and she would never go for it! 🐾💖

[@DK5ONV]

In my eyes this looks really good

[@The_Other_Brother...]

Thank you Next Step 20 and 40 beans if my wife let me and not kill me LOL

[@kenlyons9986]

I know I'm late to the party.... I take down 25G towers monthly and have put a few together... Nice tower, a few thoughts on video and advice for others. Grease and PB Blaster help.. forcing that one section at the end will be a pain when it comes time for removal in 20-30 year. 1. So for anyone else putting up towers, please grease the ends with something thick that wont wash off easily. (if you are fighting it, realign) 2. please don't DRILL or make the holes larger, Rohn has a standard of two sizes per leg and everything is engineered expecting those bolts. If the holes don't line up, adjust the 3 legs and use a NAIL PUNCH or screw driver to help align them. 3. Strap tighten.. please be careful when pulling on the cross members, I've climbed many towers that have bent or even missing rungs because of install abuse. If you have to use a strap, something is not lining up, sometimes sections just may not fit and you swap it for different one. If you do need to tightening please use axle straps around the main legs several times to shift the torque to the strongest piece of the tower. 4. bolts should match the tower, if rohn thats Grade 5 Galvanized. Stainless it nice but has mild corrisions issues (nice bolts, rusted tower). 5. Passive anode protection, 1 1/4in ID magnesium anodes will prevent rust for decades and extend tower life if done early or at construction. my 2 cents and advice, Ken KN4MDJ

[@johnwetmore1527]

Using a "come-along" and a small bottle jack to help align the legs works well.

[@josephgomes8543]

A 2x4 to pound against across the top rungs of the new section is the way I've done it.

[@KT4RAM]

Thanks for making this video. As for the bolt holes all Rohn tower sections are each double drilled: 1/4" and 5/16" hole pairs, at each joint. Many theories as to why but that's just how they roll. I ordered all new rohn bolt sets from DX Engineering for mine because they were designed for these towers and not all bolt specs are equal in terms of different brands and material. I used silicone spray lube to put my sections together. If you have a preowned tower you may need to use a good solid steel rod to re-round the legs if bolts were previously over torqued. Someone used a steel 4-way lug wrench to do this by driving one end into the leg opening. Be safe.

[@The_Other_Brother...]

I bought the tower new it come with the bolts I think it was galvanized too heavy at some of the ends is the only thing I could figure out thank you for watching the video next week I hope to do parks on the air and make some more videos of ham radio

[@mikemcdonald5147]

poor pup is feeling left out keeps bringing you a stick and you keep messing with aluminum sticks LOL. Nice looking setup. THanks for sharing.

[@The_Other_Brother...]

Lol I can promise you that dog does not getting up down I think she beats me to death with cinnamon sticks sometimes there's time she wants me to pick her up and hold her like a baby

[@mikemcdonald5147]

@@The_Other_Brother... lol that’s awesome. Well thanks again for sharing.

[@SixMeter]

I was looking for the dog after watching you trying to put the tower together to leave the stick and bite the tower and help. 🦮 I put my tower together without a tilt over plate. Now that I am older and don't trust myself climbing it, your the smarter man. Thanks for sharing your video!

[@The_Other_Brother...]

Thank you for your comment I used to do iron and rigging work after I got out of it I cannot do Heights anymore

[@KicknItCountryVlogs]

Looks good so far. I hate mixed bolts why not the same size and length....in STANDARD!!!🤣 She brought you a stick she just wanted to play. Congrats on 100 subscriber's 🙏

[@The_Other_Brother...]

That dog bringing me sticks is a Non-Stop game for her LOL I was burning brush the other day and that dog drug a stick out of it and caused a grass fire

[@darrellcollins877]

the dog impatiently waits for you to THROW THE STICK !!!!

[@The_Other_Brother...]

That stick has been thrown and chewed to Pieces we moved up from sticks to small logs they seem to hold up better

[@coleenfarquharson3009]

Congrats on 1k subs Ryan🤟👍..Your watch hours next Ryan..keep going friend 💯🙌

[@The_Other_Brother...]

Thank you Colleen but I'm only at 101 but I am real grateful for that God bless you and your family

[@allenmiddendorff2068]

cool

[@hsranch3185]

I fell your pain, I assembly and disassemble an antenna tower for a emergency command post quite often and haven' found an easy way yet.

[@scottlogsdon5607]

Piece of wood on the dynamic end and not the static end would have worked better. I had the same issue where some of the galvanized coating is thicker and makes it difficult. Beating on the fixed or static end does little good

[@JoeBelew]

Love the dog, very playful. If you had put Vaseline on the joints, would have went together much easier.

[@PaffordHomestead]

I need that for a TV Tower 😂

[@The_Other_Brother...]

That would definitely make a good TV Tower

[@jasonwinter8716]

Maybe rub the inserting ends with a wax candle to get'em to slide easier?

[@johnwetmore1527]

Hope you coated the legs with anti-seize before sliding them together. I have built and torn down many towers and doing this makes taking them apart much easier.

[@mlr06121974]

I just put my 40ft Rohn 25g tower together yesterday It wasn’t fun either as I greased the legs and had to use a ratchet strap to force them together. Now I have to figure out how to tilt it up. KE5MUG

[@theboogeyman826]

How did you raise it?

[@bgorveatt]

Take the end blue bucket out Get at the end and wiggle the tower section up and down and back and forth. Use some wd40 if needed.

[@robertbobbitt8448]

Hey He's just a man making due with what he's got

[@straightkey]

Grease helps quite a bit

[@kevinmatthews2620]

grease on the joints :)

[@The_Other_Brother...]

That would have been a good idea wish I would have thought about

[@jameyevans29]

Nice tower. Where did you buy it? The shipping cost is ridiculous from what I’ve seen.

[@solardiyhobbyandrevies8118]

Wiggle it just a little bit😁😁😁

[@roynorman3650]

How do you figure the load on raising cable?

[@arshooter1]

take a ratchet strap and pull the two sections together it works I know, that is how I did mine.

[@The_Other_Brother...]

Yeah I tried that in a different video and it didn't seem to help in the near future I'm going to take it back down and pull it apart and try to get the bow out of the Tower maybe you some anti-seize or something on it

[@SmokyMountainBlessed]

lol 🤣 my phone ran out of storage space while recording before 😱😂 that was trickier than you’d think getting those together

[@The_Other_Brother...]

Yes it was in raising the tower was real sketchy I was not able to video it being raised because it was a lot involved

[@journeyalongwithshannonakajaws]

Y’all, I was warned about this video coming out and I’ve nearly waited 24 hours to watch…because I forgot. Oh am I ever in trouble. 😁 Us wives always get lured into helping with y’all’s projects lol right @Roger M 😆 This video makes me think of the flag pole video..

[@The_Other_Brother...]

It was about the same as a flagpole video LOL

[@rayhill7613]

I'm not going to monday morning quarterback you. That thing looks like it was a pain in the butt to get that last inch LOL. Nice job keeping clam and not ram the damn truck into it.

[@The_Other_Brother...]

It Wards when I stood it up you can see that it is crooked here in the near future I'm going to be running all the coax in pvc conduit and maybe adding a couple of more sections to a tower when I do I'm going to try to pull it apart and fix it

[@Undertaking-Life]

Couldn't you use a little grease on the legs to make this easy-eeerrr?

[@n2jve1989]

You should try to let gravity and a gin pole do the work for you. Would have been alot easier for you other then you would have to climb the tower then

[@The_Other_Brother...]

Thank you I stood another pole up beside it and buried in concrete I had to raise that Tower up first before I could stand the pole up I put a winch on it 2 raised to the Tower then I put a strap on top of that pole and tied off to my truck to keep it from raining over heck no I am not climbing Towers no more I barely can watch videos of people climbing them lol

[@bretshivers8352]

you ever do that again try bar soap or liquid soap it will help slide them together better

[@The_Other_Brother...]

Ok thanks Im goining to replace the top 2 pieces ill try that

[@rogerm6069]

I bet your wife didn’t know she was on KZbin

[@SmokyMountainBlessed]

I’ve wondered before if Ryan’s wife knew she was on video for KZbin when she was out helping him lol 😂

[@deepwaterescue4u]

you should tossed the stick for your dog

[@The_Other_Brother...]

Lol you have no idea that dog will absolutely wearing me out all she wants to do is Chase these sticks

[@anthonycosta1776]

Huge mistake drilling out that tower. It will fail in time. You compromised the strength and integrity.