BTW, Has anybody actually contacted this guy to advise him of the error(s)
of his ways??
W1RG
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Ogden" <na9d@speakeasy.net>
To: <w3wv@att.net>; "Doug Renwick" <VE5RA@sasktel.net>
Cc: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 12:20 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] screw-in guy anchors, was Could this happen to you
> on 3/4/03 10:39 AM, w3wv@att.net at w3wv@att.net wrote:
>
> > Beating up on people almost never works nearly as well as treating them
as if
> > they are doing the best they can at the time; after all, they are.
Aren't
> > you? Even when *you* do "dumb things?"
>
> Beating up on people doesn't work unless they willfully do the same thing
> after being instructed properly.
>
> However, treating them as though they are doing their best all the time is
a
> recipe for failure as well. I always expect people to be able to do
better
> than they do. I think that not properly consulting engineering manuals
and
> not properly examining forces and loads before putting up a tower is NOT
> doing your best. It's called making short cuts. I don't think he was
> putting forth his best effort when he put that tower up. Nothing can
> convince me otherwise. Not thinking and using cheap hardware is NOT doing
> your best. One has to be careful when putting up something that you can
get
> killed or kill someone else with. There is NO excuse for not getting
> properly educated.
>
> That said, calling him a dumb a** won't help. Giving him a little
guidance
> and elmering will. However, I'm afraid he still hasn't learned his lesson
> as he is using the same anchors and the same turnbuckles. Next time, it
> won't be saturated soil, but perhaps a tornado or other strong wind that
> will cause his hardware to fail. The amount of forces on a 150 tower are
> big. Look at the Rohn spec sheets. I have bigger hardware than he does
on
> my 53 footer.
>
> And this guy has a link on his web page on tower safety! Come on. If he
> goes through the trouble to talk about tower safety on his web page, he
> could have read up and asked questions about the sort of hardware to use.
>
> We have to be honest with people when they do dumb things, but nicely.
It's
> clear that this guy put up his tower as an amateur radio operator in the
> true spirit of the word "amateur." Lack of planning is not doing one's
> best. I refuse to accept mediocrity in anyone.
>
> 73,
>
> Jon
> NA9D
>
> -------------------------------------
> Jon Ogden
> NA9D (ex: KE9NA)
>
> Citizen of the People's Democratic Republik of Illinois
>
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>
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>
> "A life lived in fear is a life half lived."
>
>
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