The other thing is that utility poles don't usually have much side load on
them. Just the vertical load ftom ghe wires and equipment, because the lateral
loads are balanced. The wires go to the next pole in both directions along the
line. When they aren't in straight line, the pole is guyed.
Jim
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From: Kelly Taylor <ve4xt@mymts.net>
Date: 07/19/2015 17:57 (GMT+00:00)
To: Bill Aycock <baycock@mediacombb.net>
Cc: Tower Talk List <towertalk@contesting.com>, ak4qa <ak4qa@msn.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] guy posts math
I’m pretty sure the 20-foot utility poles in many neighborhoods are not 80 feet
long. (Three feet down for every one foot up would be 60 feet buried and 20
feet in the air.)
I could
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