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So here it stands.. waiting for some “simpson” brackets to hold the floor on a little bit better.. then the plywood floor needs to go up.  Still need to decide what to to for a floor hatch-way.

So now.. how do you get an 8′x8′ studded floor up on top of this?  Roland’s answer.. a purple sky hook.  I’m not sure you can see the details in this small photo.. but.. I’m on the ladder (bad spot).. my help is at the base on each corner.. they have a rope on each… Continue reading »

WOW.. here are some solid anchors.. the guy at NH Bragg really wanted me to use some super heavy stuff.. and twice as many as I wanted to or even had room for.  I used 3″x12″ 3/16″ steel, at a 90 degree for the bottom braces.  A 5/8″ concrete anchor was used to hold it… Continue reading »

We added in the horizontal braces before tightening the cable ropes.  This helped take most of the wobble out of the tower.

So we added large eye bolts to the face plates on the bottom side only.. this was enough to take out the remaining slack and taut the cable.

The tower was “twisting” or cork-screwing quite a bit.. so to tighten things up a bit.. we added 7×19, 1/4″ cable rope.  An “X” on each face.  All the drilling was for the angle iron we used as face plate connectors.

..of drilling holes in angle iron and fabricated leg supports. Mmmmm..

Added…  nothing fancy here.. some 2×4′s lagged in to add floor support.

This is the floor.. a 2×4 wall laying on its side… [shrug]  Trying to save on weight and money..

The third leg was wrestled over the top of the 1st & 2nd legs, with the cross support previously attached..  now, here we bolt on the 4th leg.