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.