Two things that need to be considered
What is the safety factor in the tower design...sometimes a
pretty illusive number.
Suppose I design/'engineer' my towers to withstand say a 200
mph steady wind. Along comes a 300 mph wind. All the
engineering calculations in the world are not going to save
my towers.
Just about everything we do in life has a risk associated
with it. If anyone thinks they can engineer out all the
risks then they are in dreamland.
I am not going to spend anymore time on this topic...you are
free to do whatever you wish. The fact remains...self
supporting towers can be safety guyed.
In our day and age it seems that Common Sense is in short
supply. If you don't have any Common Sense - get some
Common Sense and use it. If you can't find any Common
Sense, ask for help from somebody who has some Common Sense.
Doug/VA5DX
Subject: [TowerTalk] Guying Aluminum Tower
"This is supported by experience and by tower manufacturer's
recommendations. So let's get rid of this
flawed opinion."
Well, maybe yes and maybe no Doug. The original poster
admitted he was intending to overload his tower and his
"fix" was to guy the thing. Yes this may be a solution but
unless the engineering calculations are made and compared to
the design of the tower, we all here can not make any
conclusions regardless of our experiences. Unless we had
the exact same setup as proposed.
Phil KB9CRY
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