Quote:I know that Seagrave discontinued the manufacture of the old Apollo 3-Section RM Tower back in the 2003 timeframe and then used the RK tower from 2004 thru 2006 that was called the "TowerMax". Around this timeframe and right after Seagrave stopped using the RK product, I heard that Tom Shand (back when he was with Seagrave) was working on a newer version of the Apollo tower but I thought that this effort was dead. Apparently not but it was hard to tell since they rarely advertise or even update their website up until now. It looks like Seagrave is using a platform very similar to the one used on the Aerialscope on the Apollo II.
You have that correct from what I know, the Grand Rapids units were originally assigned by Graves as Apollo's but then switched to TowerMax. It was the RK product overall I thought it was a good platform, but thought it could have been improved upon.
Tom was supposedly working on an update and I was gone before him so I'm not sure what happened. Had heard talk even back then about using the Aerialscope platform on the Apollo/TowerMax product. Seagrave has gone thru a lot of good people with great ideas, but it seems to me that management has held them back most of the time. Hopefully that's changing and Seagrave can make a resurgence.
Kris
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