The 'story' of Heights towers -  After spending a few years selling and then manufacturing various types of towers, Drake Dimitry (Sr.) developed a line of self-supporting aluminum towers, which he then began to manufacture and sell through Heights Mfg. Co. starting in 1959.  Countless hours were spent in the planning of the design, testing and manufacturing of this product.  After the self-supporting stacked line, Heights came up with a Telescoping Crank-Up model, and shortly thereafter introduced the various Fold-Over-Kits.  These products were innovative, effective and well received by various segments of the market, including amateur radio operators, TV antenna users, and commercial two-way radio users, just to name a few.  

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Before Drake Sr.'s untimely death in March 1973 at age 48, the company was selling towers all over the world to users and agencies at all levels, from Heights' plant in Detroit and then Almont, Michigan.

 

From then until the 80's, while his general manager and partner were running the business, not many changes were introduced to the line, although the towers were still in steady demand.  In 1987, Drake Jr. began to manufacture the towers.  Soon, it became apparent that our products might benefit from a few changes here and there.  In the late eighties, Drake (Jr.) focused on redesigning rebuilding some fixturing and jigs.  This reconstruction allowed for some radical new design changes in the early 90's which made our tower lines more flexible and stronger than ever before.   Over recent years, we have tuned up and redesigned many of the mechanical components or our Crank-Up telescoping systems, as well as our Fold-Over-Kits. 

We continue our never-ending search for improvements that will add long-term value for our customers, and we would like to think we are known by our customers as primarily concerned with high quality, a topic we always leave open for dialogue.  Our greatest feeling of accomplishment is in selling a customer a well-designed, well-made product, which, barring bizarre phenomenon of nature, we know will stand the test of time.

Our Claims -  Today, our towers lead the pack among self-supporting brands in strength, value and ease of installation.  Anyone who is interested in owning real quality, ought to seriously and carefully consider our towers.  Consider our engineering.  Really compare the standards we use to those of the competition.   What are they selling you?  Does the product really comply with standard building codes like the UBC-97?  What wind-speed is it rated at?  These are important questions, that the buyer should investigate closely.  A lot of companies make grand marketing claims and some exaggerate.   Get the facts-- IT'S IN THE ENGINEERING DOCUMENTS! 

In addition to our published Engineering Specs online, we will provide any serious customer with exact-configuration tower calculations.  We are just a phone call or email away.  

Past Customers - Following is a partial list of a few of the customers we have had in the past 12 years only.  We can provide further contact information for those interested:

Ford Motor Company Bahama Dept of Tourism/Coast Guard
ITT Federal Services UNICEF - United Nations
Northrup Grumman U.S. Coast Guard
NASA U.S. Dept of Energy
PEMEX (Mexican Petroleum Company) Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute

We have also sold to the following industries and groups:

Ham Radio Operators Alarm Companies
Ski Resorts Engineering firms of various kinds
Wireless Cable Companies Display-Marketing
Airport Communication firms of various kinds

 

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