Steve is a slave driver. Time for lunch!

Boom now mounted on the mast, which is mounted on the hazer (antenna elevator) using the thrust bearing (on top) and the Hygain rotator. The antenna will be pushed closer to the top of the mast assembly is complete.

Let's break off some bolts with an air driven impact wrench. Luckily the manufacturer provided spares.

How is this supposed to go???

Dave W7DJE looks through the boxes for parts. Duffy helps.

Boom joiner on the SteppIR Dream Beam DB18E). Colored dots on the pieces helps the assembler to find and line up the proper pieces.

Fritz "I own this tractor. Let's go for a ride"

W7TYQ (Gary) tightens everything down after applying antiseize paste.

Drilling through mast for 3/8" bolt anti-rotation (no-slip).

Mast installed is 2 inch high strength galvanized steel about 8 feet long.

Hygain T2XD rotator mounted on the hazer.

Fritz loves to ride in the cart as Steve (WA7DUH) goes to the shop to pick up SteppIR antenna parts.

This is Duffy, Dave's (W7DJE) dog.

Gary's (W7TYQ) dog Fritz watches the action from the deck.

Left To right: Gary W7TYQ (Yreka CA), Dave W7DJE (Florence, OR) and Steve WA7DUH install the rollers on the hazer. Gary and Dave drove up to help Steve & Linda put this antenna up on the tower.

Guy lines are Phillystran, a non-conductive arimid fiber. Cable grips are used for termination.

It looks like coax in this picture, but it is Phillystran, a non-conductive arimid fiber guy wire. Good for about 4,000 lbs pull.

A view of the trench heading down to the ham shack. That white bottle in the picture is copper anti-seize/anti-corrosion goop that is used liberally on ALL copper-to-copper connections.

Each of the 3 tower grounds are out abot 7 feet from each tower leg, with #4 solid copper and 1 1/2 inch copper strap back to the tower, over to the house electrical ground and down to the ham shack. Two inch rigid non-metal conduit is also buried in the trench to hold 4 runs of LMR-400 coax.

Driving those ground rods down at least 6 inches below grade with a power hammer.

#4 solid copper over to the house electrical entrance ground. Found more irrigation, Spinkler valve control cable (run in water pipe PVC) and some Romex (indoor only) that the previous owner had run to some outdoor lights. Gotta fix all that.

Here is the house ground rod as we found it. It doesn't meet code. Only one ground was found or wired into the electrical panel, but code requires two, with at least 6ft separating them. The solid copper wire is also too small, and the one rod was not 6 inches below grade. So we fixed that up.

The #4 solid wire and the copper strap is also run to the house electrical ground and into the ham shack entrance.