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Rough Design for Solar Panel Shed with Sleeping Area and Tool Storage

In order to work as a wind tower technician, you have to be certified to be able to evacuate from the nacelle in case for whatever reason you can not escape down the main tower. Of course no one has ever had to do this within the company I’m working with (will remain unnamed) or in the history of modern wind towers. If there is any chance of a storm, no one climbs the tower. But, because by law we have to know how, we are certified before we are allowed to work full time as a technician. In this video you see one person above the hatch where he will repel out of the tower. Normally, he would only be attached to the rope his hand is on. Because this is practice, belaying is used as a backup (safety first!). The person to the left in the video is the belayer. I’m the person videotaping the exercise.

Hydraulic wind turbine tower

This video shows the inside of the nacelle of a Zond 550 KW Z-40 Wind Turbine.

Really scary the first time you have to raise a really long tower with so much weight on top, but it actually went up very easily. My son guided the tower with one of the guy wires while I pulled it using a steel cable to the truck hitch. We were talking on the cell phone so he could guide me and tell me when to pull and when to stop. Once we got it vertical he secured the two guy wires in front while I went to back of the shed and secured the third guy wire, from there on it was easy to bolt down the remaining two tower base bolts and then adjust the tension on the guy wires with the turnbuckes. I had the turbines wire already to the charge controller which has a stop switch to keep the blades from moving in case of too much wind. When we raised the tower we had less than a 5 mile an hour wind most of the time so we got lucky we didn’t have to fight the wind.